Hi everyone,
Welcome to the Forum’s new topic!Â
We have heard your feedback, so we will be regularly posting new topics to give you the chance to reflect on your journey so far. We will be including content around topics such as gambling harms research, news articles, reflections from GamCare staff, and more.
This week’s topic is gratitude.  According to Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence gratitude is a state of mind that lets you notice the good things in daily life that come from outside yourself – or even paying attention to your life’s little pleasures. Anyone can build the skill of practising gratitude and this approach benefits emotional and physical well-being in many different ways, including:
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Gratitude can also be important in recovery as it can help to shift our attention and highlight reasons and motivations to continue a recovery journey. There are many ways we can start to practice gratitude in our lives including: writing down things that you are grateful for, saying thank you more often for the small things and trying to slow life down so you have the time to recognise the small things! Â
Over to you!
So, what are your thoughts?
Has your story so far affected your sense of gratitude?
Do you feel you practice gratitude or is this something you would like to do more?
We would love to hear your reflections below.
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All the best,
Lulu
Online Peer Support TeamÂ
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I think I am grateful for many things in my life and support I have had from friends and family while going through my addiction as well as recovery.
I am thankful I never ever got bailed out by family or friends but they were always there to listen to me.
Some days I get stressed out in my own situation but on reflection of ones self I am grateful to have what I have because a lot of other people are a lot more worse off than me.
I am also very thankful to have gamcare the website to be able to help myself as well as others with chat rooms and resources that prevent me from gambling.Â
I know you must have many volunteers and helpers on this site and I am glad they spend their time helping others as I see each day from topic to topic.
Please keep up the hard work and never give up to all those who are fighting this addiction.
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Dave101
Hi
I am Dave a compulsive Gambler, just for today I do not want or need to gamble.
It is simple enough just for today was my path to a much healthier life.
My addictions and obsessions were a very painful unhealthy fear filled life.
On walking in to the recovery program I thought the only problem I had was a gambling money problem.
In time when I gave up the self abuse I was doing to my self I started to get much healthier.
Showing gratide and appreciation is an expression of my very healthy values.
Today I do not want to lie.
Today I do not want to live in the pains of my past.
Today I do not want or need to react in such unhealthy as I use to do.
By attending meetings I was abale to abstain from unhealthy habits.
I feared being honest because I felt that if people really knew me they would leave me and abandon me.
I no longer to go back to the unhealthy life I use to live, if you can call it that.
The people in the rooms of the recovery helped me get more honest with my self.
The people in the rooms of the recovery helped me open up and give in delth therapies.
The people in the rooms of the recovery helped me become the person I like to be today.
Love healing and peace to every one.
Dave L
AKA Dave of Beckenham
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