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May 10 ***** Becoming Entirely Ready *****
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"We... get a good look at what these defects are doing to our lives. We begin to long for freedom from these defects." Basic Text, p. 33 Becoming entirely ready to have our defects of character removed can be a long process, often taking place over the course of a lifetime. Our state of readin...
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Primary Purpose
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I am struggling a little bit about what I "think" about some of the "drama" that has been going on for the past few weeks on here. So I went to the basic text, and found this....it helped me alot to calm my thinking and my mind so I wanted to share it..... Page 10, basic text "Nar...
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Help With An Assignment
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hey everyone, my sponsor gave me an assignment to ask people about their relationship with their sponsor. anything you feel like sharing and about anything concerning you and your sponsors relationship. whether he/she is strict, or motherly, or close like a friend. or how they might make you work t...
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new member seeking help
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I am new to the online n/a meetings and in need of some real help. I have been off of opiates for over 4 months. Still cannot sleep and the thoughts that run thru my head. OMG!!!!! It's terrible. I guess I need to realize that I have a disease and will never be like "normal" people again. T...
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able to breathe
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ty ops of MIP NACHAT I am so grateful for the unity in this room which has aloud me to breathe. ty so much for covering things while I take care of me and my recovery. Just for info I am doing great going to plenty of mtgs and alot of step work I just wanted ya'll to know I am doing well miss ya'll but not enough ye...
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Anniversaries
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Coming up on 2 years on May 17. My disease is really messing with my head right now. Had an small argument with my husband two days ago, and since have been thinking about my dealer. I can still remember her number. My disease tells me to call and check to see if the number is still in service and that tha...
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Apology more than saying "sorry".
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Addiction creates moral wreckage. People who become addicted to alcohol or other drugs might lie, cheat, or steal in order to get and use their chemical of choice. Often what's left behind is a trail of shattered relationships. In this situation, apologies won't do. Alcoholics Anonymous calls for...
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Off topic
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Step 1
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Hey All, I'm in step 1 and my sponsor asked me to ask fellows how they "live" step 1. Am open for anything. Please help. Love, Magellan
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May 5 Any Lengths
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"...I was ready to go to any lengths to stay clean." Basic Text, p. 217 "Any lengths?" newcomers ask. "What do you mean, any lengths?" Looking back at our active addiction and the lengths we were willing to go to in order to stay high can help to explain. Were we willin...
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Any Length
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Last night i went to a meeting and it was a round robin about the idea of going to any length for your recovery. And personally I don't know whether I really go to any lengths, I mean I go to meetings daily if not more and i do assignments and take my sponsor's suggestions (most times). But then in other ways I...
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May 2 "Just Maybe...."
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"There is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our recovery; this is an attitude of indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles." Basic Text, p. 18 When we first came to NA, many of us had great difficulty accepting the spiritual principles underlying thi...
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how to let someone go
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hey everyone. from an outside perspective my situation seems really clear and i've even been able to recognize that fact, though it doesn't help fully. anyways, i'm new it recovery (5 months) and i've become friends with someone that has been coming around for about 10 years, never really worked a...
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Technical Issues
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Hi I really want to get onto the chat forum but for some reason I can't. I tried downloading the new Java software and that didn't work. I don't understand what this IRC stuff is, I tried to download that too but it did nothing. Sorry to be such a pain, but if anyone has any idea what I can do to get on it woul...
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In Need of Service Workers
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must have a minumim of 6 months clean for op position and be willing to chair either Saturaday or Sunday night mtg all meetings are @ 10 pm est in exeption of sunday morning which is 10 am est We here at MIP also need anyone interested in the direction in the room to hang out and greet ppl just a willingness to...
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Recognizing And Releasing Resentments
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"We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today." Basic Text p. 28 Many of us had trouble identifying our resentments when we were new in recovery. There we sat with our Fourth Step in front of us, thinking and thinking, finally deciding th...
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Perspective
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If you find yourself stuck in traffic, dont despair. There are people in this world for whom driving is an unheard of privilege. Should you have had a bad day at work, think of the person who has been out of work for years. Should you despair over a relationship gone bad, think of the person who has never...
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it may look like I did but i swear, I did NOT do it
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-- Edited by BigV at 11:03, 2007-04-14
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April 30
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God Does For Us "Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves." Basic Text, p. 96 How often have we heard it said in meetings that "God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves?" A...
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4th step blues
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As I go through another 4th step, I get this feeling of being lazy, my self esteem drops in the toilet, and I really hate doing it over and over and over again. So I am going to share this cause I just did the 5th step behind it. My resentment this time, (and probably has been for some time), is with god. I was th...
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phil
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still looking for some help what do ya think???
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Pronouncing names?
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Ok we got Manon which is NOT pronounced MAN ON it's MAH NON We got Tahir I say it to myself TA HER?????or is it TA HERE? We got Raman I say it RAH MAN? or is it RAY MON? to many question not enought time
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I need a meeting.
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Hey guys, I haven't posted here but once, and I try not to ask from people that haven't already asked from me, but I really need somebody to talk to. I have 36 days clean today, and I've been "trying" to get clean for six months. This is my first thirty day feat, and I feel like it won't be the las...
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April 26 Self-Acceptance
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"The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery." IP No. 19, "Self-Acceptance" Most of us came to Narcotics Anonymous without much self-acceptance. We looked at the havoc we had wreaked in our active addiction, and w...
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April 24th Just for today
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Twelve Steps Of Life "Through abstinence and through working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous, our lives have become useful." Basic Text, p. 8 Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, our lives were centered around using. For the most part, we had very little energy left over for jo...
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Do cravings ever go away?
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Hi, I'm a returning NA member. I am desperate to stop using but can't stop... I was wondering if cravings for drugs ever go away completely. Do they? Ever? Thanx for any input M.
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HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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been lonely in the chat room meetings are smaller wish you were there we miss you if ther is any way we can improve things your input is wanted please fell fre to send an email to naway@12stepforums.net without help our primary purpose is defeated please if you have ideas or concerns or just simply want...
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Dear JENNY and WANTNEEDA i miss you
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hi girls , i'm finally back from visitint my partents :) and am missing you here :( So many people love you here, and we all have our ups and downs, but we, I, miss the hell out of you. You are valuable, and your struggles help us learn as much as your strength. You have given so much, we are here to give bac...
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A God Of Our Own Understanding
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"Many of us understand God to be simply whatever force keeps us clean." Basic Text, p. 25 Some of us enter recovery with a working understanding of a Higher Power For a lot of us, however, "God" is a troublesome word. We may doubt the existence of any sort of Power greater than ours...
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OMG
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I just had a recent photo sent to me from my brothers weeding which was the 13 of april I have got to put lock on my fridge and take the drive thrus out I knew I would gain wieght but my god when does it stop???? My self esteem is bad enough that pic made me look like a house. Acceptance sucks but I am also fining...
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