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A recovery practice

Gratitude List

A short list of what you are grateful for today, a habit many people in recovery keep every day.

A black-and-white photograph of an old man with his head bowed over folded hands, a loaf of bread and a bowl on the table before him
Grace, 1918m.
Eric Enstrom, Grace, 1918 (cropped). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
GRATEFUL TODAY
The Gratitude List module as it prints, on the daily page. The dots are the page’s quarter-inch grid.

Why a list

Many people in recovery keep a gratitude list, often at a sponsor's suggestion: a few things, written down each day, that went right or that they would not want to lose.

It is the other side of the inventory. The inventory looks for what went wrong and your part in it. The list looks for what went right, which on a hard day is easy to forget.

How the module works

A short list on the daily page, headed Grateful Today. Write a few things, and make them specific: a call that came at the right time, a good meal, another day without a drink. Specific things are easier to feel grateful for than general ones, and easier to remember later.

The photograph above, Grace, was taken by Eric Enstrom in Bovey, Minnesota, and published in 1918.

A note

Memari is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous or any twelve-step fellowship. This module is a page to write on, not a program. Your sponsor and your group are the people to work your recovery with.

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Find Gratitude List in the module drawer, under Recovery. Free, and no account needed to try it.