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A Treatable Illness
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"Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs." Basic Text, page 3 At our first meeting, we may have been taken aback at the way members shared about how the disease of addiction had affected their lives. We thought to ourselves, "Disease? I've just got a drug proble...
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March 23, Just for Today
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March 23 God's Gift "We do the footwork and accept what's being given to us freely on a daily basis."Basic Text pg. 46 Our relationship with our Higher Power is a two-way street. In prayer, we speak and God listens. When we meditate, we do our best to listen for the will of our Higher Power. We k...
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March 22, Just for Today
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March 22 The Principle Of Self-Support "In our addiction, we were dependent upon people, places, and things. We looked to them to support us and supply the things we found lacking in ourselves."Basic Text pg. 67 In the animal kingdom, there is a creature that thrives on others. It is calle...
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March 21, just for today
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March 21 A Treatable Illness "Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs."Basic Text p. 3 At our first meeting, we may have been taken aback at the way members shared about how the disease of addiction had affected their lives. We thought to ourselves, "Disease? I...
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Mom needs help
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I am not sure I am in the right place. But I am looking for a chatroom to help me with my soon to be 19 yr. old son. I think he is drinking and smoking too much. He just lost a good friend in a car accident and I am freaking. Any advice?
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March 20, just for today
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"Most of us have no trouble admitting that addiction had become a destructive force in our lives. Our best efforts resulted in ever greater destruction and despair. At some point, we realized that we needed the help of some Power greater than our addiction."Basic Text p. 24 Most of us know...
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March 18, Just for Today
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March 18 The Full Message "There is a special feeling for addicts when they discover that there are other people who share their difficulties, past and present."Basic Text p. 53 The wealth of our recovery is too good to keep to ourselves. Some of us believe that when we talk in meetings, we s...
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March 17, Just for today
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March 17 True Courage "Those who make it through these times show a courage not their own."Basic Text p. 82 Before coming to NA, many of us thought we were brave simply because we had never experienced fear. We had drugged all our feelings, fear among them, until we had convinced ourselves t...
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March 16, Just for today
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March 16 Inventory "The purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to sort through the confusion and the contradiction of our lives so that we can find out who we really are."Basic Text p. 27 Using addicts are a confused and confusing bunch of people. It's hard to tell from one mi...
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forgot my password
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just thought I would drop in and let you know I am okay I am not active in the program right now but I am ok
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Went to a bachelor party tonight
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of course all the fellers were drinkin but at least not like I used to it was like so controlled HAH one guy asked me if I was drinking and told him nope its been awhile he said he'd been slowing down but his bloated face tells another story. My girls in Las Vegas having a great time I called to see how she was sh...
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Felt like Sharing my joyous experience...
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I feel so much better after having come back from our area convention. It was a great, enlightening & breakthrough experience, being part of this convention.
I overcame a few of my blocks that continued to haunt me from my active addiction, and yes, the way I found freedom from this anxiety and f...
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March 15 Just for today
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March 15 Feeling A "Part Of" "The get-togethers after our meetings are good opportunities to share things that we didn't get to discuss during the meeting."Basic Text p. 29 Active addiction set us apart from society, isolating us. Fear was at the core of that alienation. We be...
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March 14, just for today
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March 14 Relationships "Also, our inventories usually include material on relationships."Basic Text p. 29 What an understatement this is! Especially in later recovery, entire inventories may focus on our relationships with others. Our lives have been filled with relationships wi...
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Need sponsor advice!
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Probally totally taboo subject here but my sister will not ask within the program and I have very grave concerns over this, so please forgive this "normie" for nosing in on a in program issue! My sister is within the program and I do whatever I can to support her sobriety, I provide nothing co...
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March 13 Just for today
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March 13 That One Special Person "A sponsor is not necessarily a friend, but may be someone in whom we confide. We can share things with our sponsor that we might not be comfortable sharing in a meeting."IP No. 11, "Sponsorship, Revised" We've asked someone to sponsor us, and th...
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March 11 Just for today
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March 11 Lightening The Load "It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another It will make us feel better to clean up our lives."Basic Text, p. 37 Sometimes we need something tangible to help us understand what holding a resentment is doing to us. We may not be aware of how dest...
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this is senseijc aka jayson cole need to change meeting days please
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i had to change this again. this is a up date on jayson cole im doing ok but i need to ask to change my days for the meetings i can do friday saturday if someone would take tuesday for me im going to school monday though thursday ill be at the meetings but i might be late so friday and saturday or friday and sund...
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march 12 just for today
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March 12 Getting Out Of The Rut "Many times in our recovery, the old bugaboos will haunt us. Life may again become meaningless, monotonous, and boring."Basic Text, p. 75 Sometimes it seems as though nothing changes. We get up and go to the same job every day. We eat dinner at the same time eve...
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sometimes life gets weird !!!
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sometimes life gets weird when I least xpect it,, take last weekend . I was enjoying the Area Convention. Thne that vening i was to play at a show 100miles away and then get to hill station 150 miles form thatb show and thenn return and be ther for tecountdown on the last dy of the Convention. So that 2...
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JUST FOR TODAY 2/19/2008 RESERVATIONS
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Reservations "Relapse is never an accident. Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program." Basic Terxt, page 76 A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and-such happens, we will surely relapse. Wha...
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march 10 just for today
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March 10 Our Own Recovery "The steps are our solution. They are our survival kit They are our defense against addiction, a deadly disease. Our steps are the principles that make our recovery possible."Basic Text, p. 19 There's lots to like in Narcotics Anonymous. The meetings, for one, a...
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march 9 just for today
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March 9 Small Things "In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills."Basic Text, p. 87 Making mountains out of molehills seems to be our specialty. Have you heard it said that to an addict, a flat tire is a traumatic event? Or how about those of us wh...
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lean times ?
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For Gods sake,, what going on ?? Im 46 years age,,clean and serene,,doing well family,friends and work wise,, bt whats missing??? how do i get back to the energyy level I had even 4 months ago ?? male menopause ?? ha,ha, ha, anyone identify ????
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march 8 just for today
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March 8 Learning To Love Ourselves "What we want most is to feel good about ourselves."Basic Text, p. 97 "We'll love you until you can learn to love yourself!" These words, heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerly - the day when we'll know how to love...
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What is wrong with me?
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I don't know what is wrong with me. Everything is going good with my family, my work. I don't have any money problems, other than I always want more. I have been clean for 4+ months since my last relapse. I am planning to relapse again soon. What is my problem? I don't want to relapse, I don't want to be a mess...
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Watch out for the cold medicines
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I've had a head cold for 2 days now barely gotten out of bed I feel so bad. I took some decongestants this morning and cough suppressor and a few hours later I felt like using so bad !!! must have been some sudafed or something tweeky in one of them or the combination of things I took. Anyhow layed in bed just p...
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A Few Recovery Quotes that I came upon...
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It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it. If you're looking to have an image in NA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress. An addict is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating. Addiction is the leading cause of relapse. I often obsessively pursue...
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march 7 just for today
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March 7 Priorities "The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we may forget that our first priority is to stay clean."Basic Text, p. 42 Things can get really good in our recovery. Perhaps we've found our "soul mate" built a rewarding career, started a family. Maybe our...
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meeting prayer
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meeting prayer our high power, we come to you as a friend. You have said that where two or more are gather in your name there you will be in the midst. we believe you are with us now. we believe this is something you would have us do and that it has your blessing. we be...
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