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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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Dejting someone outside of the program
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Hi fellow members, I seek experience on WORLD because I am dealing with something new in recovery at many levels. Before I start I want to say I love NA I live only cause of NA and I need your expeience strength and hope. I am gonna be direct. Feeling thought and emotions very scattered. In th elong run I ca...
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SCARED FIRST TIMER!!!
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Hi all I'm new to NA i just got out of my first rehab yesterday on 3/30/2012 i plan on going to my first outside meeting today and am extremely nervous. I am a very shy 29 year old female and I have never shared before. I was wondering if anyon ould give me some advice as to how it is done for our first meeting and...
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April 20 Detachment
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Addiction is a family disease, but we could only change ourselves.=Many of us come from severely damaged families. At times, the insanity that reigns among our relatives feels overwhelming. Sometimes we feel like packing our bags and moving far, far away.We pray that our family members will j...
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joke
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TURNS OUT THATS ME SO THERES YOUR JOKE!
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Running rats
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So.
Karen, who is for all intents and purposes, my mother in law. She is a wonderful woman. And I quite enjoy her company. She is also a jehovah's witness.
So yesterday she texted asking me if I wanted a bible. I told her we had two already, that her son/my fiancé has them hidden somewhere.
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1827 days clean
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5 years today! Thanks to all of those who listen to my ranting and raving, accept me for who I am (character defects and all) and have shown me a new way to live! I am truly grateful! I love the program of Narcotics Anonymous. It not only saved my life, it GAVE ME A LIFE! :) I entered this program, not kn...
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JFT April 19 Footwork
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So many times, addicts have sought the rewards of hard work without the labor.Basic Text, p. 34=When we first came to NA, some of us wanted everything, and right away. We wanted the serenity, the cars, the happy relationships, the friends, the closeness with our sponsorall the things other peopl...
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JFT April 18 "I understand"
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We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.Step Seven=Once we are entirely ready to have our character defects removed, many of us are entirely ready! Ironically, thats when the trouble really starts. The more we struggle to rid ourselves of a particular defect, the stronger that shortco...
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New 2 NA
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I am new to NA I just got home from my 1st meeting & met alot of good people that are very understanding as well as warm & welcoming. I enjoyed the environment the personal testimony that was shared. Blessings to all
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Just joined this forum
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I just feel so lost... I have been an EXTREMELY highly functioning addict for quite some time.. It's not one substance in particular, it's anything that can get me high. It is now affecting my health and I have no choice but to get it together - I am only 24 years old and should not be developing constant si...
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not a good answer?
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why is "because I'm an addict"not a good enough answer for me for some of the things I do? I do things to people i love that i never thought I would do. I still my husbands pain pills so I dont get sick knowing full well that he will run out and get sick himself. I alway tell myself that "this is...
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JFT April 17 Priority:meetings
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I initially felt that it would be impossible to attend more than one or two meetings a week. It just wouldnt fit in with my busy schedule. I later learned that my priorities were [180] degrees reversed. It was the everything else that would have to fit into my meeting schedule.=Some of us attended me...
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Friends In Recovery
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Looking for an old friend Gee Gee. Trying to find her home group.
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Did I relapse?
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I've been clean for several months, but was precribed nuerontin, a non-narcotic anti-seizure med for anxiety. I started taking more than prescribed, from 100 mg at first to 200 then 400 then 600) because I felt no effects and was having really bad obsessive-compulsion and depression. I don't think...
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