Small Steps Everyday

I’m so grateful to be sober today. I’m grateful for my family and my friends, for our home and our pup. I’m grateful to have 3 beautiful years sober, for my sponsor, AA and the steps. I’m grateful for heat on a super cold day, for reconnecting, for patience, tolerance and understanding. I’m grateful for a new era, and for all of the people walking into 2025 with me.

Good morning my friends (: I hope everyone had a lovely weekend and happy 2025 🪩💃🏻

I am writing this from bed on Sunday because during our regularly scheduled programming I will be doing something scary and to be disclosed at a later date. But don’t worry, yall have been through one of these with me so I promise it’s nothing bad and you’ll hear about it soon. I’m just under the impression that the world revolves around me and would hate for someone who I don’t want to read this to take the time to come on to Substack and find my posts because I mentioned that I write here one time like 6 months ago.�

^ Even without a drink I am indeed still a coo coo bird. Anyway, I am prioritizing myself tomorrow and I’m crazy anxious but have also been working on remembering that it’s all honestly out of my hands I just have to show up.�

And speaking of showing up, many of you may know that I am not a new year resolutions kind of gal. I feel like the word resolutions has this weird ‘how long is this really going to last’ undertone that I don’t love. So every year I do goals and intentions.�

Last year’s list was pretty long & included the typical “be healthier” “save money”…resolutions I know I know. So this year I kept it a little simple:�

• To live slower & be more present

• Call T (my sponsor) at least 3 times a week

• Get back into step work

• Find ways to be happier / focus less on the negative

• Less resentment

• More prayer

• More AA

• Enjoy life more

Overall I think these boil down to more gratitude. More little things, more enjoying the sunshine on my face and the small connections I make and the way the weeds grow in the concrete cracks. Somewhere along the way in 2024 I forgot to be grateful for every little thing I have because life got really big and that’s okay. But I’m remembering now. I’m centering again on what is the most important to me and I already feel better. Like I’m on the right path again.�

So if you’ve made it this far you’ve already seen my yearly vision board above and I’m choosing the theme of my 2025 to be small steps everyday.�

May we all take a small step today, whatever we need that small step to be.�

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