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Rational Recovery and meditation Boston
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I know about this topic and want to start a Meditaion group with new comers in Boston. (Your place small fee)
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Starting Step One
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Hello. This will be my first time going through the steps, and I am starting Step One as of today. I am working them with my sponsor of course, my first task is to read Step One out of the Basic Text and It Works How and Why every day for 30 days. Does anybody have any personal expierience with this step? What d...
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Recovery quotes
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Care anybody ???
care to share recovery quotes ???
heres one related to changing old places, old playmates and old playgrounds !!=
hang around a barber shop sometime,,,, and shawnuff youll get a haircut,,,
(wheter you intented to or not to begin with)
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NA Quotes
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1- It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it. 2- 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. 3- An addict is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating. 4- addiction is the leading cause of rel...
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NEWCOMER NEEDING DESPERATE HELP
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Hiya my name is andrea and i am an addict with 3 1/2 months clean. I am really in a desperate state and i am needing help. Both my children got murdered on sunday and my whole world has fallen apart I am broken and lost of course because i am an addict my addiction is telling me to use BUT i dont want to i need you g...
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Need a sponsor that understands disability?
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My name is Maggy and i have a huge issue. I wil be one year sober in August of this year, but without a sponsor im not sure i will make it. this whole year of my sobriety, my first ever, i cannot find a sponser that can work with me. i have a panic dissorder and im terrified of talking on the phone. i cant find a spo...
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Relapse & Recovery
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I thought I was a strong soul. I thought I had this shit licked. I got cocky in my recovery and relasped 3 days ago on Meth. I would had almost 3 years clean. I am hitting a meeting today, but am so disappointed in myself. I eat good, work out, have a good life. I don't want to lose all this. HELP.
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I need advice on how to get out of a unhealthy living situation
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Hi everyone, i have no urge to driink/use at the moment, but my current living arrangement is unhealthy in the way that I am experiencing a lot of verbal and mental abuse from my Mother. She is so angry at me, (with every right) she told me meetings were just a way to meet men to have sex with, and find peopl...
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Why some people clean and claim to be serene for several decades still manipulate and live at the earnings of new comers
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I ve seen , that some addicts who procalim and claim to be clean and serene for years together, they claim they are in recovery and they even claim they are recovering addicts, still are found to be conning, manipulating the innocent new comers in a class room in bangalore...they do online meetings, wh...
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The Right To Live Your Life Free but Homeless Bostonian
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I try to put my past behind me but my PO thinks I should "Register" when I move and not live near schools. This Massachuaaeta Law is unconstitutional but friends in NA give me help. I am Mark available for sponsorship. Let me show u the way! -- Edited by To Far Gone on Saturday 31st of March 2012 0...
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Any Recovery in Boston?
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Hey Family, i haven't been around in awhile. i posted a few months ago about being confused and wanting to find a new sponsor. and its sort of mixed news since i ended up drinking, but now i have 4 months and a new sponsor who i'm working really well with. but i guess the real question i have is that i'm going t...
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JFT June 22 Accepting life as it is
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In our recovery, we find it essential to accept reality. Once we can do this, we do not find it necessary to use drugs in an attempt to change our perceptions.Basic Text, p. 90=Drugs used to buffer us from the full force of life. When we stop using drugs and enter recovery, we find ourselves confront...
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caos
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I ahd a few days of clean time put together, worked hard at getting my RN license back after a felony conviction got a car, and had a great interview scheduled. two days before the interview, I was taking care of some business, and my disease told me that i could have a drink. I'll spare all the details, but...
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Peel your onions
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So, on the premise that our disease (I picture it as golum from lord of the rings) is smarter/faster/stronger than we are... What things have you been guilty of substituting your drugs for.
As in... Character defects? Like this "I'm not using drugs anymore, but I still beat up my brother when I...
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hey.
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hey everyone. ive been pretty good. had a sisters weekend this weekend in columbus, did a lot of shopping and eating and spending way too much money. of course there was a gay pride festival going on at the same time. it was great entertainment. but now im having a rough night. [video=http://www.yout...
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JFT June 21 New levels of honesty
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We have been experts at self-deception and rationalization.Basic Text, p. 28=When we come to our first meeting and hear that we must be honest, we may think, Well now, that shouldnt be too difficult. All I have to do is stop lying. To some of us, this comes easily. We no longer have to lie to our empl...
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JFT June 20 Meditation for beginners
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For some, prayer is asking for God's help; meditation is listening for Gods answer.... Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us.Basic Text, pp. 46-47=Be patient when youre learning to meditate, many of us were told. It takes p...
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Things coming together
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Hello and blessings of the day! Today we finally got our Florida licenses after waiting for my Birth certificate to come back from NewYork.Somewhere in the "storm" I lost it.Reregistered our cars few weeks ago and settling in in the over 55 community LEISUREVILLE(check that monicker hu...
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Could you/would you?
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Hey! So, I just wanted to know... What is YOUR name for YOUR higher power?I've heard god alot, and I'm not thrown off by it, but it just feels real generic. I'd like to call mine by an "affectionate" name (not like honeybuns or anything lol, but a name like when you introduce yourself. You don'...
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I crept up on me...
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Unmanagability. Example: *goes to web site* *sees thread titled: Drugs Ive done* *Click* That was the unmanagable part... I obviously did not listen to ANYTHING smarter/better/faster/stronger than me in that decision *Reads list of drugs* *Sees D.O.C* *Misses that substance as if missing an ol...
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recovering addicts with crimminal records intervew tips
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I have a job interveiw tomorow in a field that dosen't usually hire felons, any tips about how to explain past mistakes/recovery?
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Can an employer fire an employee because their pre-convicted mugshot appears online on mugshots.com?
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Can an employer fire an employee because their pre-convicted mugshot appears online on mugshots.com?
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JFT June 19 A sense of humor
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We find that when we lose self-obsession, we are able to understand what it means to be happy, joyous, and free.Basic Text, p. 107=The laughter in our meetings often surprises the newcomer. As a group, we appreciate the healing that healthy laughter brings. Even if we are deeply troubled, the jo...
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available detox for local areas
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I need to find a local detox for a 20 year old female in the mount union pa area. She is a local and scared and feels alone . I would like to find her a local detox and get her started as soon as possible she has enough ins. for detox and is willing to goto meetings. The main problem is transportation and the fe...
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The Bridge Group of Narcotics Anonymous
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To whom it may concern, The Bridge Group of Narcotics Anonymous is a teleconference meeting which meets seven days a week, three-hundred and sixty-five days a year, to carry the message of hope and the promise of freedom to addicts who are, for whatever reason, isolated from the message of recover...
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JFT June 18 Indirect amends
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Indirect amends may be necessary where direct ones would be unsafe or endanger other people.Basic Text, p. 41=When we used, we allowed nothing to stand in the way of that next high. As a result, many of us didnt always know precisely whom we had injured, either financially or emotionally. When it...
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JFT June 17 Walls
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Reaching out is the beginning of the struggle that will set us free. It will break down the walls that imprison us.Basic Text, p. 83=Many of us came to NA emotionally shattered. Years of using people and allowing them to use us had taken their toll on our ability to trust anyone, ourselves included...
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I had a very happy fathers day...
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JFT June 16 Accepting life
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Some things we must accept, others we can change. The wisdom to know the difference comes with growth in our spiritual program.Basic Text, p. 95=Its relatively easy to accept the things we likeits the things we dont like that are hard to accept. But remaking the world and everyone in it to suit o...
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JFT June 15 Resistance to change
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Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing, or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for the unknown.Basic Text, p. 34=We have often heard it said that when the pain of remaining the same becomes gre...
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