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JFT May 3 Sharing our gratitude
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My gratitude speaks when I care and when I share with others the NA way.Gratitude Prayer=The longer we stay clean, the more we experience feelings of gratitude for our recovery. These feelings of gratitude arent limited to particular gifts like new friends or the ability to be employed. More fr...
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JFT 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 this programa...
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Pain
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I finally stopped using. I took my last pills at 8 am yesterday. By 6 pm last night, my bones started to feel like glass. I fet a little shitty, I thought well if this is as bad as it gets.... 3:08pm : I woke up and did not feel a lot of physical pain....till I started to move that is. then I started to feel. Fuck d...
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NA does not address chronic pain that never ends. I feel lost...
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I will try to make this as short as I can. I have been a member of NA for 20 years. Four years ago I developed a migraine headache that has never left. Every day I have a headache in one form or another. On most days on a scale of one to ten, it is a 2-4. The worst it ever gets is an 8 at which point I am usually vomit...
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Please, there has to be someone out there with experience in this. I wish I could kill myself but I have kids.
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My chronic pain never ends. I am ready to give up and become this opiate dependent thing because my quality of life is already almost nil. No doctor can help me. No alternative medicine can help me. I am to the point where I am praying I don't wake up in the morning. None of my friends in NA have any advice or...
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Young and trying to find my place in NA
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Hello family. I have been clean for about 9 months now and I am fully dedicated to one fellowship- NA. I'm 23, and I feel like that is making things a bit tough for me, when it comes to building relationships with other people in the program. Everybody is super friendly, however, I feel sort of like a ghost...
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I'm Back..
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I'm losing hope, but not hopeless. This isn't the first time i've tried to get clean. I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I've [tried to] quit a hundred times. The last date I used was March 25th. Doesn't matter if I say it anymore, only matters if I feel it. I want to stay clean. I'm in an outpatient program...
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JFT May 1 Self-worth and service
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Being involved in service makes me feel worthwhile.=When most of us arrived in Narcotics Anonymous, we had very little self-worth left to salvage. Many members say that they began to develop self-esteem through being of service early in their recovery. Something just short of a miracle occur...
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Stoppin in to say hey!
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Welcome to another day of 'LIFE'...Another opportunity to be of maximum service to the God of my understanding and others practiced by living the NA way and application our our principles in all my affairs.Heading South in 3 days,Pods are packed and loose ends tightened up.Be off line for a minute or...
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JFT April 30 God does for us
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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. 99=How often have we heard it said in meetings that God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves? At times we may get stuck in our recovery...
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JFT April 29 "What if..."
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Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. We learned to take whatever actions are necessary and to leave the results in the hands of our Higher Power.Basic Text, p. 94=In our active addiction, fear of the future and what might happen was a reality for many of us....
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JFT April 28 Who really gets better?
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We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes. Our best thinking got us into trouble. We recognize the need for change.Basic Text, p. 55=When new in recovery, most of us had at least one person we just couldnt stand. We thought that person was the rudest, most obnoxious person in the program....
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not sure what to do-please give some advice
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I went to a in patient treatment program. i am now drug free and i feel great.The day i got out I met someone at a meeting and i feel very strongly towards her and i am spending all my time with her. The problem is that i am married. not sure if these feelings are because of my happiness in recovery or if i have r...
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newbie
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hi everyone! im fairly new to na. i was a month and a couple days sober before i relapsed yesterday. but i am not going to let this bump in the road stop me from continuing my recovery. i also have a question, how do i come about getting a sponser?
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hurray, happy holiday !
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wow, one of the best vacations Ive ever had........ (all photos published with permission) -- Edited by Raman on Monday 23rd of April 2012 01:51:15 PM
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INTRO
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LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT.............................................
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found this instead of my long lost marbles
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here your real laugh david
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JFT 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 we loathed ourselves. W...
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JFT April 25 Embracing reality
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Recovery is a reality for us today.Basic Text, p. 101=Pain and misery were realities in our using lives. We were unwilling either to accept our living situation or to change what was unacceptable in our lives. We attempted to escape lifes pain by taking drugs, but using only compounded our troub...
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opinions
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ok I have something that has been bothering me and I would like your opinions. I have a friend who was an alcoholic and was in recovery. he is now in his second or third year at the seminary to become a priest. He drinks and gave me his AA book and i guess is forgetting that it ever happened. my question to you...
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update
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hey yall well here we go again. I was on a wild i dont care spree for quite some time but now its time to buckle down. I am going to my first f2f meeting tomorrow, the first one in years!, and im super nervous. I have started running again, im up to a mile a day, i am going to try being a vegetarian well at least pes...
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JFT April 24 Twelve Steps of life
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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 jobs, relationships, or other a...
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Beware of road rage !
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hi all. I was in a terrible road rage incident last Saturday. Even after three days, I shudder to think what could have happened if it had gone further,,,, This is one thing that I sincierly wish will never happen again in my entire life ! And to think that for 29 days Id been on a grand trip; events I played s...
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JFT April 23 A God of our 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 ourselves. Or we may reme...
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[insert title]
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My original clean date was 1/2/09. And I had three years without mind altering substances. Excluding caffine and nicotine.
I spent two out of those three hitting meetings. Had a homegroup, several commitments. But I never found my niche. I tried, but there was always... Something. What they were i...
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just need to vent.
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Okay so I'm lying in bed right now on my phone right now because I don't know where else to go with this thought. Only so many people in my life know about me using. My family would never believe me and would blame my wife for my using and hate her more then they already do.
So I come here seeking just a place t...
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JFT April 22 Traveling the open road
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This is our road to spiritual growth.Basic Text, p. 37=When we arrived at our first NA meeting, it looked like the end of the road to many of us. We werent going to be able to use anymore. We were spiritually bankrupt. Most of us were totally isolated and didnt think we had much to live for. Little di...
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JFT April 21 Fear
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We have found that we had no choice except to completely change our old ways of thinking or go back to using.Basic Text, p. 22=Many of us find that our old ways of thinking were dominated by fear. We were afraid that we wouldnt be able to get our drugs or that there wouldnt be enough. We feared discover...
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We lost a brother today
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I just got word this afternoon that Donnie A. from Olustee, OK (more recently Balaton, MN) passed last night. He was visiting family in Oklahoma, and died in his sleep last night. Donnie was a real fighter. He suffered from a list of medical problems a mile long, but would always lend an ear and never...
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ok something has to give
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since the stalking episode its beena real nightmare trying to leave my home in fear I will be found that is why i took some time away from MIP He would look here first I am stuck in my bedroom in a 2 bedroom apt nicely furnished graeful to have a "home" but i can't seem to enjoy iit well thur all my fe...
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