I am thankful this thread was started to remind me!!!!
I am thankful for all the wonderful people in this group
I am thankful I am finally settling down a little tonight
Thankful for strength when I am in most need

Today I'm grateful for...

+ Somehow managing to navigate the School of Psychology's "Choose Papers to fulfil the requirements for your Post Grad in Psychology" maze... omg, the timetable, block course, and exam clashes... are they running some kind of awful psych experiment on their students!!! LOL Maybe it's a screening test... PTSD be quiet, I'm busy CELEBRATING here...

+ Awesome role models... Muji (walking the talk!), Nigel Latta (Beyond the Darklands...and more (http://www.goldfishwisdom.org/), Albert Bandura (especially for his work on PTSD & self-efficacy), John Locke (the lay psychologist who discouraged parents from beating their children)... I'm sure that list will grow with time!

+ For practising whatever doesn't kill me... makes me stronger! I'd prefer not to have any further lessons on that... pretty please, with a cherry on top (No harm asking... it is Christmas after all, lol) Hmmmm! I'm pretty sure I have the idea pretty solid now! : )

I'm grateful a Chinese restaurant is open on Christmas Day that delivers to my hotel. Yeah! More than that, I'm grateful for grateful great friends here.

I love gratitude... It's one of my favourite tools
Today I'm grateful for a peaceful Christmas
The KFC my wee pooch and I shared
My wonderful DS family

im grateful that every family member is well , grateful for past Christmas spent with mom ,dad, sister i i miss them they all left to early .
im grateful that im good where im at i

im grateful, my boyfriend treats me good im grateful of course for all you . god bless each of you. hugs minnie

Today I am grateful for...

+ Ears aren't ringing too badly! The concert was LOUD but apart from one band not uncomfortably loud...
+ Hubby & I had a very good time... we even danced for most of the concert!
+ Managed to last the entire NINE hours... and only disliked one band... not really their fault... the venue acoustics weren't perfect and the sound engineers seemed to have little feel for the front of house mix... not sure what they were watching on their consoles... but yeah when most of the audience LEFT for a break during a particular set... would've been a sharp clue that the mix was off... lots of competition between that particular drummer's snare and the vocalist... heaps of mud... also quite a bit of wash... didn't help the snare volume was set painfully loud... grizzle, grizzle... and that really is saying something coming from a drum FANATIC... lol

Tonight I'm grateful a student I had in class a year ago looked me up to go out for coffee. Long story short, he's on meds for a mental illness. He doesn't know I have PTSD. I was just his teacher, not a fellow patient to him nor a therapist. But we had a good rapport.

He's doing well. Just wanted for me to know he's taking his meds, taking more classes, doing ok. It was nice to see, and nice that he wanted to share it with me. While I was listening to him I was thinking about how much DS PTSD helps me with my stuff so I could listen to his. It made me thankful for DS PTSD again.

HUGS Lilly! Yes I agree Chi-hua-huas ARE cute little alien beings... those big eyes on such a small body kindof, give it away, eh...

Bless Hank! Not every big dog can cope with little alien beings... : )

Today I'm grateful I went to the gym again and exercised like I did in physical therapy. I joined the gym my physical therapist at the hospital said she belonged to herself. Well, I've been going 3 times a week, even though I'm old, fat, and use a cane and there are lots of beautiful young women and men on machines all around me reminding me of what used to be. So guess what? Tonight my former physical therapist was THERE. She came up and tapped me on the shoulder as I sweated on the stationary bike. So good to be acknowledged for being there, exercising like I promised her I would!

:-)

lol... caught being GOOD!! Way to go MUJI... HUGS! : )