Thanksgiving

[mudpuppy]

Hi Everybody,

How's about we all give ourselves a break and think about some good things we can be thankful for rather than all the damage the bizarre people have done in our lives.

I'll start,
1. God.
2. My perfect wife.
3. My perfect daughter (even when she's pestering me)
4. My friends, who have stuck by me.
5. I don't have NPD.

mudpup

[miss piggy]

Hey ya Mudpup!

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

I'm thankful for:

My H
My kids
My dog
My crafts
My dreams
My blessings of abundance
My willingness to keep learning
Your thoughts and wisdom here on this board 
When I'm on a higher plane I am thankful for the painful fallout in my family that has freed me from more pain and led me on a long path of learning and strength and awareness.  I was blind and now I see! 
My spirituality
Our universe and all its wonders
I'm thankful for music and literature
My health and able bodiness
My house and home and "Kaulifornia"
For humor and laughing
For time to take it all in

and since Thanksgiving is an American holiday, y'all, I'm thankful for freedom of speech!  woo hoo!  Now if only we could claim our first amendment rights within our own families!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to everyone here, American or otherwise.   

Hugs, Miss Piggy

[write]

I love Thanksgiving, though I try to downsize holidays now so they aren't a stress-fest for me.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[Sela]

Hi all:

Good thread Mud!

Our Thanksgiving up here in cannuckland has already passed but it never hurts to repeat thanks eh?

I'm thankful for many of the things already listed  and also:

for those I love and who love me

for good food and a warm fire

for sunny blustery winter days

for warm mits and high winter boots

for snow plows and salters

and for people who run them for hours on end.

  Sela

[Brigid]

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

I have much to be thankful for this year, but mostly:

1.  I am thankful for having my children with me today and enjoying our time together.

2.  I am thankful for the peace and serenity I feel.

3.  I am thankful for my wonderful friends who have stood by me through all the pain and now join me in my happiness.

4.  I am thankful for the new love in my life and all that brings.

5.  I am thankful for having the health and well-being to enjoy my lovely home, my wonderful children, my loving pets and all that life has to offer.

6.  Most of all, I am thankful for the realization and awakening that I have so much to be thankful for--that I have experienced and very successfully survived the most painful experience in my life thus far and I can now rejoice in the happiest time of my life.

Blessings to you all.

Brigid

[mum]

Happy Thanksgiving, All!!

Every night I thank God for the roof over my head....simple, but I never forget it.
Then I add all kinds of things....
But Thanksgiving is a day to be specific, I guess!

I am thankful for:
my ability to find the Love in all things and to love.
my part in the "Big Picture",
Abundance,
Dreams,
Time,
my children,
my husband,
my dogs,

and a killer apple pie in the oven!!!

[Sallying Forth]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here!

Though I am going through some intense grieving right now I am thankful. Yesterday before meeting a very special person at a local grocery store I could not have said I am thankful at all. Strange how things change in just a few minutes.

I am thankful for:

  1.  God. How He orchestrated meeting with a woman on November 23.
  2.  Being alone for Thanksgiving. It's quite, peaceful and restful.
  3.  My h being unable to visit. He's sick with some flu. Yahooeee!!!!! Not thankful he's sick just that he's not here.    
  4.  Having another pregnancy dream which tells me I am on the right path, the right timing, and a new beginning is coming.
  5.  God becoming more and more a part of my life through HIS WAY AND TIME and me allowing Him to come into my life, once again.
  6.  My cat and my dog. I had the chance to own and love and be owned and loved by my sweet, pumpkin puppy, Behr.
  7.  Grieving.
  8.  Becoming healthier and healthier emotionally, mentally, and spiritually on this journey.
  9.  My physical health and being able to exercise, move, and eat healthy.
10.  Getting fitter and stronger and losing weight.
11.  My intuition and ability to see right through people and know when they are telling the truth.
12.  Learning to love and accept and trust myself.
13.  Learning to love being alone.
14.  Moving towards not being lonely.
15.  Learning to live on my own, once again.
16.  Jettisoning excess baggage: emotional, mental, and physical.
17.  Knowing my holiday is going to be peaceful, stress free and calming and that I can choose to celebrate it any way I want!!!     
18.  After going to therapy yesterday I learned and realized my h is N when it comes to sex. That is so freeing. I am not crazy. I always thought that. Now I heard it and then I read it last night.
19.  Finding Lundy Bancroft's book Why Does He Do That? This single book has done the most to help and free me from the lies my h has perpetrated on me. And to help and free me from the lies my mother, father, biofather and brother have perpetrated on me.
20.  Finding this forum and learning about NPD. Then learning about OCPD. Thereby realizing there was nothing wrong with me as a child.
It was my N & OC mother. It was my Nbiofather. It was my Nfather. It was my Nbrother.
What an incredible revelation!!! I do NOT have NPD.  I am now free to be me!    

[Hopalong]

I'm thankful for my child, my friends, the beautiful blue mountains, my church extended family, my writing, my ability to be thankful...music, books, stories, the ability to learn, moments of peace. I'm thankful for stories of kindness. I'm thankful for this forum!