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Dave R · Dave R

The steps lead to an awakening of a spiritual nature. This awakening is evidenced by changes in our lives.Basic Text, p. 49=We know how to recognize the disease of addiction. Its symptoms are indisputable. Besides an uncontrollable appetite for drugs, those suffering exhibit self-centere...

Manon · Manon

A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed. He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair, while tying the girl to the bed he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom. While he's...

Dave R · Dave R

Meetings keep us in touch with where weve been, but more importantly, with where we could go in our recovery.Basic Text, p. 56=In many ways, addicts are different. When we came to Narcotics Anonymous we found others like ourselves, people who understood us and whom we could understand. No longe...

poi · poi

someone told me today that vinegar contains trace amounts of alcohol...what?? I've had vinegar in recovery...does that mean I have to start my day count over again? I'm new in recovery so I don't know how strict things are but I can tell you there was no intention to ingest what we all know is a drug if...

Dave R · Dave R

We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing.Basic Text, p. 102=Active addiction kept us isolated for many reasons. In the beginning, we avoided family and friends so they wouldnt find out we were using. Some of us avoided all nonaddicts, fearing moral bac...

Dave R · Dave R

We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.Step Nine=In every relationship, we dont always handle things the way we would have hoped. But friendships dont have to end when we make mistakes; instead, we can make amends. If we are sincer...

Dave R · Dave R

We review our past performance and our present behavior to see what we want to keep and what we want to discard.Basic Text, p. 29=As each day winds to a close, many of us reflect on the past twenty-four hours and consider how we can live differently in the future. Its easy for our thoughts to remain tra...

shorn · shorn

Hello all,A group of us in my home town are working on opening a 501c3 Non-Profit Club, following WSO guidelines and other clubs I have consulted with. I made this general recovery video that is not specific to any organization. I'd love to get feed back as to how it comes across. One of the main reasons...

Davethewave · Davethewave

Today we are celebrating 5 years clean! Seems impossible that I could get 5 days much less 5 years without using. I want to thank the fellowship, my home group, my sponsor, and my higher power for helping me find a life with living. Today, despite.a whirlwind circling my daughter, I am profoundly grate...

kingstable2003 · kingstable2003

Looking for your thought on this. God of my understanding. "MY UNDERSTANDING" is a very limited ability in open-mindedness, it was my understanding that got me to NA, I am falable to deception, let down, etc.... as is any individual, so to attempt to create something that is infalable i...

Manon · Manon

Psychiatrist phoneHello. Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2. If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6. If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are an...

Dave R · Dave R

We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.Step Six=After taking the Fifth Step, many of us spend some time considering the exact nature of our wrongs and the part theyd played in making us who we were. What would our lives be like without, say, our arrogance?Sure, arr...

MIKEF · MIKEF

Greetings from Pompano Beach Florida,our new address shifting from NewYork, and blessings of this day!Your eyes were opened by THAT Power greater than you and there is another opportunity to work toward Our ultimate purpose,being of maximum service to that Power greater than WE and to others.Gu...

Dave R · Dave R

Gods will for us becomes our own true will for ourselves.Basic Text, p. 48=The Twelve Steps are a path to spiritual awakening. This awakening takes the form of a developing relationship with a loving Higher Power. Each succeeding step strengthens that relationship. As we continue to work the...

cdbuckberry · cdbuckberry

I really did not think I had a problem with using.It was my 39th year using had lost everything and anything I ever had.I was told by my wifes alcohol councillor that I had a problem.I got asked to leave her office by the police.I came to belive she was right I was an addict and I had a problem.I was told to a...

Manon · Manon

i bout died as i could hear Bill say it him self its like hell no not my JELLO

stephen28 · stephen28

After rehabilitation, sober living houses can be your next stopFor individuals not willing to deal with the community head-on, for individuals without a sober place to go, and for individuals still experiencing addict life and a corresponding mental illness, coming out of drug or alcohol reha...

Ruhig · Ruhig

I'm stuck in my head. And I'm not sure how to articulate it. I don't know how to identify how I'm feeling. We moved, mike and I, back to my home town. Started going to meetings. Got a sponsor. Hit 4 meetings this week. Mike? He is vascillating, understandably. But I can only stay home around him for so lon...

Dave R · Dave R

As we approach this step, most of us are afraid that there is a monster inside of us that, if released, will destroy us.Basic Text, p. 27=Most of us are terrified to look at ourselves, to probe our insides. Were afraid that if we examine our actions and motives, well find a bottomless black pit of self...

Raman · Raman

transcript of Jimmy.K's share at WCNA 23. I learned in this program to be selfreliant. A lot of people think thats a dirty combination of words, but thats what this program teaches us to be. To be selfreliant because we know from where comes our power; because each of us has our own higher power as we und...

Robin1983 · Robin1983

hello my name is robin.. i am 28 years old and am fighting my first addiction... opiates to be exact.. i am currently in my 26th hour of detox (going cold turkey all alone and i just need some help getting through it.. i have four little people here who need their mother and i would like to have myself back as...

Ruhig · Ruhig

I've been regularly attending meetings. I haven't made a friend yet. And then I realized I've never made any friends. They made me. So I show up early, stay, stay late. And hope someone talks to me. And tell myself that your first time around they suggest you share regardless, so you get noticed? An...

Angell · Angell

Hi people! I have a speaking engagement coming up soon and have recently moved from an area that had virtually no speaker meetings so I havent gotten a lot of practice. I decided to put it down on paper to sort out my thoughts and since then decided to share it with you. My early life was characterized by...

Ruhig · Ruhig

For better or for worse, the na in my area is over run by newbiepunks switchin addictions from drugs to sex or being clean living dirty. So I'm attending aa meetings. Same steps, an addict is an alcoholic is an addict, it's really just switching words. Clean for sober, using for drinking, same concept...

Dave R · Dave R

Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.Basic Text, p. 23=Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guiltat the very least, with frustration and impatien...

Dave R · Dave R

The progression of recovery is a continuous uphill journey.Basic Text, p. 83=The longer we stay clean, the steeper and narrower our path seems to become. But God doesnt give us more than we can handle. No matter how difficult the road becomes, no matter how narrow, how winding the turns, there is...

Dave R · Dave R

For meditation to be of value, the results must show in our daily lives.Basic Text, p. 47=In working our program, we are given many indirect indications of a Higher Powers presence in our lives: the clean feeling that comes to so many of us in taking our Fifth Step; the sense that we are finally on the r...

Manon · Manon

A mental hospital After hearing that one of the patients in a mental hospital had saved another from a suicide attempt by pulling him out of a bathtub, the hospital director reviewed the rescuer's file and called him into his office. "Mr. Haroldson, your records and your heroic behavior indica...

Fire13 · Fire13

Hi I've been in recovery for 2 and a half years now and been living with HIV for about 5/6 years. Im looking for people who are in recovery and HIV+. I would really like to find people like me that I can talk to and share what Im going through. I speak to my sponsor about it, and she helps me a lot with using the s...

Dave R · Dave R

A lot of our chief concerns and major difficulties come from our inexperience with living without drugs. Often when we ask an oldtimer what to do, we are amazed at the simplicity of the answer.Basic Text, p. 43=Finding balance in recovery is quite a bit like sitting down with a set of scales and a pil...

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	JFT May 22 Symptoms of a spiritual awakening (Preview) The steps lead to an awakening of a spiritual nature. This awakening is evidenced by changes in our lives.Basic Text, p. 49=We know how to recognize the disease of addiction. Its symptoms are indisputable. Besides an uncontrollable appetite for drugs, those suffering exhibit self-centere...	Dave R	2	529	May 23, 2012 by cdbuckberry
	if my belly was full of jelly it would surely jiggle for this (Preview) A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed. He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair, while tying the girl to the bed he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom. While he's...	Manon	5	323	May 22, 2012 by Raman
	JFT May 21 Keep coming back! (Preview) Meetings keep us in touch with where weve been, but more importantly, with where we could go in our recovery.Basic Text, p. 56=In many ways, addicts are different. When we came to Narcotics Anonymous we found others like ourselves, people who understood us and whom we could understand. No longe...	Dave R	1	329	May 22, 2012 by cdbuckberry
	what?? (Preview) someone told me today that vinegar contains trace amounts of alcohol...what?? I've had vinegar in recovery...does that mean I have to start my day count over again? I'm new in recovery so I don't know how strict things are but I can tell you there was no intention to ingest what we all know is a drug if...	poi	10	533	May 21, 2012 by poi
	JFT May 20 Coming out of isolation (Preview) We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing.Basic Text, p. 102=Active addiction kept us isolated for many reasons. In the beginning, we avoided family and friends so they wouldnt find out we were using. Some of us avoided all nonaddicts, fearing moral bac...	Dave R	0	353	May 20, 2012 by Dave R
	JFT May 18 Friends and amends--keeping it simple (Preview) We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.Step Nine=In every relationship, we dont always handle things the way we would have hoped. But friendships dont have to end when we make mistakes; instead, we can make amends. If we are sincer...	Dave R	2	543	May 20, 2012 by khalaqahu
	JFT May 19 A growth inventory (Preview) We review our past performance and our present behavior to see what we want to keep and what we want to discard.Basic Text, p. 29=As each day winds to a close, many of us reflect on the past twenty-four hours and consider how we can live differently in the future. Its easy for our thoughts to remain tra...	Dave R	0	307	May 19, 2012 by Dave R
	Recovery Video (Preview) Hello all,A group of us in my home town are working on opening a 501c3 Non-Profit Club, following WSO guidelines and other clubs I have consulted with. I made this general recovery video that is not specific to any organization. I'd love to get feed back as to how it comes across. One of the main reasons...	shorn	8	790	May 19, 2012 by avid
	5 years today (Preview) Today we are celebrating 5 years clean! Seems impossible that I could get 5 days much less 5 years without using. I want to thank the fellowship, my home group, my sponsor, and my higher power for helping me find a life with living. Today, despite.a whirlwind circling my daughter, I am profoundly grate...	Davethewave	10	471	May 19, 2012 by cdbuckberry
	GOD (Preview) Looking for your thought on this. God of my understanding. "MY UNDERSTANDING" is a very limited ability in open-mindedness, it was my understanding that got me to NA, I am falable to deception, let down, etc.... as is any individual, so to attempt to create something that is infalable i...	kingstable2003	10	609	May 19, 2012 by kingstable2003
	joke for today 5/17/12 (Preview) Psychiatrist phoneHello. Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2. If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6. If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are an...	Manon	1	438	May 17, 2012 by avid
	JFT May 17 "Defects" (Preview) We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.Step Six=After taking the Fifth Step, many of us spend some time considering the exact nature of our wrongs and the part theyd played in making us who we were. What would our lives be like without, say, our arrogance?Sure, arr...	Dave R	0	345	May 17, 2012 by Dave R
	Another opportunity (Preview) Greetings from Pompano Beach Florida,our new address shifting from NewYork, and blessings of this day!Your eyes were opened by THAT Power greater than you and there is another opportunity to work toward Our ultimate purpose,being of maximum service to that Power greater than WE and to others.Gu...	MIKEF	2	341	May 17, 2012 by Raman
	JFT May 16 Our Higher Power's will (Preview) Gods will for us becomes our own true will for ourselves.Basic Text, p. 48=The Twelve Steps are a path to spiritual awakening. This awakening takes the form of a developing relationship with a loving Higher Power. Each succeeding step strengthens that relationship. As we continue to work the...	Dave R	1	351	May 17, 2012 by cdbuckberry
	Coming to Believe (Preview) I really did not think I had a problem with using.It was my 39th year using had lost everything and anything I ever had.I was told by my wifes alcohol councillor that I had a problem.I got asked to leave her office by the police.I came to belive she was right I was an addict and I had a problem.I was told to a...	cdbuckberry	7	619	May 16, 2012 by MIKEF
	shits and giggles (Preview) i bout died as i could hear Bill say it him self its like hell no not my JELLO	Manon	3	389	May 16, 2012 by MIKEF
	Sober Living, the 2nd step of rehab (Preview) After rehabilitation, sober living houses can be your next stopFor individuals not willing to deal with the community head-on, for individuals without a sober place to go, and for individuals still experiencing addict life and a corresponding mental illness, coming out of drug or alcohol reha...	stephen28	2	434	May 16, 2012 by stephen28
	Grr, wtf (Preview) I'm stuck in my head. And I'm not sure how to articulate it. I don't know how to identify how I'm feeling. We moved, mike and I, back to my home town. Started going to meetings. Got a sponsor. Hit 4 meetings this week. Mike? He is vascillating, understandably. But I can only stay home around him for so lon...	Ruhig	5	624	May 16, 2012 by Meditation Man
	JFT May 15 Fear of the Fourth Step (Preview) As we approach this step, most of us are afraid that there is a monster inside of us that, if released, will destroy us.Basic Text, p. 27=Most of us are terrified to look at ourselves, to probe our insides. Were afraid that if we examine our actions and motives, well find a bottomless black pit of self...	Dave R	0	305	May 15, 2012 by Dave R
	A message from our late co-founder, Jimmy.k; Vision for our future ! (Preview) transcript of Jimmy.K's share at WCNA 23. I learned in this program to be selfreliant. A lot of people think thats a dirty combination of words, but thats what this program teaches us to be. To be selfreliant because we know from where comes our power; because each of us has our own higher power as we und...	Raman	1	516	May 15, 2012 by BigV
	new here... (Preview) hello my name is robin.. i am 28 years old and am fighting my first addiction... opiates to be exact.. i am currently in my 26th hour of detox (going cold turkey all alone and i just need some help getting through it.. i have four little people here who need their mother and i would like to have myself back as...	Robin1983	6	492	May 15, 2012 by St4rvingx4rtist
	Fml (Preview) I've been regularly attending meetings. I haven't made a friend yet. And then I realized I've never made any friends. They made me. So I show up early, stay, stay late. And hope someone talks to me. And tell myself that your first time around they suggest you share regardless, so you get noticed? An...	Ruhig	3	431	May 15, 2012 by St4rvingx4rtist
	Regarding a speaking commitment I have (Preview) Hi people! I have a speaking engagement coming up soon and have recently moved from an area that had virtually no speaker meetings so I havent gotten a lot of practice. I decided to put it down on paper to sort out my thoughts and since then decided to share it with you. My early life was characterized by...	Angell	9	630	May 15, 2012 by St4rvingx4rtist
	Splitting hairs (Preview) For better or for worse, the na in my area is over run by newbiepunks switchin addictions from drugs to sex or being clean living dirty. So I'm attending aa meetings. Same steps, an addict is an alcoholic is an addict, it's really just switching words. Clean for sober, using for drinking, same concept...	Ruhig	6	467	May 15, 2012 by cdbuckberry
	JFT May Oops! (Preview) Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.Basic Text, p. 23=Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guiltat the very least, with frustration and impatien...	Dave R	1	459	May 14, 2012 by cdbuckberry
	JFT May 13 Onward on the journey (Preview) The progression of recovery is a continuous uphill journey.Basic Text, p. 83=The longer we stay clean, the steeper and narrower our path seems to become. But God doesnt give us more than we can handle. No matter how difficult the road becomes, no matter how narrow, how winding the turns, there is...	Dave R	0	351	May 13, 2012 by Dave R
	JFT May 12 Living with spiritual experiences (Preview) For meditation to be of value, the results must show in our daily lives.Basic Text, p. 47=In working our program, we are given many indirect indications of a Higher Powers presence in our lives: the clean feeling that comes to so many of us in taking our Fifth Step; the sense that we are finally on the r...	Dave R	0	385	May 12, 2012 by Dave R
	ok I give hers a real joke obama eek just kidding but check it out (Preview) A mental hospital After hearing that one of the patients in a mental hospital had saved another from a suicide attempt by pulling him out of a bathtub, the hospital director reviewed the rescuer's file and called him into his office. "Mr. Haroldson, your records and your heroic behavior indica...	Manon	3	451	May 12, 2012 by Raman
	Looking for someone to relate to (Preview) Hi I've been in recovery for 2 and a half years now and been living with HIV for about 5/6 years. Im looking for people who are in recovery and HIV+. I would really like to find people like me that I can talk to and share what Im going through. I speak to my sponsor about it, and she helps me a lot with using the s...	Fire13	1	370	May 11, 2012 by avid
	JFT May 11 Balancing the scales (Preview) A lot of our chief concerns and major difficulties come from our inexperience with living without drugs. Often when we ask an oldtimer what to do, we are amazed at the simplicity of the answer.Basic Text, p. 43=Finding balance in recovery is quite a bit like sitting down with a set of scales and a pil...	Dave R	0	418	May 11, 2012 by Dave R
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