Grateful for progress!❤️ via /r/gratitude

Today is a bit of a hard day for me. I struggle with severe anxiety and today is my first day back at nursing school after my winter break! I had a bit of a mental breakdown during Christmas due to a change in my medication dosage and I am still recovering from that, so I am quite nervous! As I write this I am sitting on the train on my way to school and instead of focusing on everything I am nervous about I’d like to focus on what I’m grateful for:

I’m grateful that I am doing better than I was a week ago. I am grateful for my friends and family that have been there to support me through everything. I am grateful for public transport (even if it makes me very anxious). I am grateful that I have the ambition to keep pushing on despite everything. I am grateful that I have a friend in my nursing program that I can go to class with. I’m grateful for the veterinarian that looked at my dog earlier today. I am grateful for my boyfriend having his birthday yesterday (aging is such a gift even if we don’t realize it!). I am grateful that I am in university and have access to education. I am grateful for the roof over my head and having access to food even if I have a hard time eating. I am grateful for my pets because I don’t know what I would do without them. I am grateful for so many things in life and I am so full of hope despite my nervous system malfunctioning all the time lol! Oh and I’m grateful for modern medicine because I would be a mess without it.

Reading these posts always fills me with so much happiness because it really is amazing how many things we take for granted every day and it is amazing to be able to see how many things we’re lucky to have!