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JFT February 1 Hardships
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We felt different.... Only after surrender are we able to overcome the alienation of addiction.Basic Text, p. 22=But you dont understand! we spluttered, trying to cover up. Im different! Ive really got it rough! We used these lines over and over in our active addiction, either trying to esca...
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JFT January 31 Trust
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Just for today I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery.Basic Text, p. 93=Learning to trust is a risky proposition. Our past experience as using addicts has taught us that our companions could not be trusted. Most of all, we couldnt trust ourselves.No...
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Long Time no see ...........................
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I have forgotten my name and pw for ages and could never get back in here . Good to see all . Much has gone on . Im single again . Im working tons again . Coming up on 18 months ................again . Went through 6 months of chemo therapy ( It worked ) . Im on track and digging recovery . I promis...
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just checkin in family
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so greetings to all...i havent posted for a minute so i thought i'd check in this time not just read whats posted. i have been moving into the next level of my journey with a new and more positive outlook thanks to the help of a movie i watched called "the secret" laws of attraction. so everyd...
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January 31 Giving it away
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We must give freely and gratefully that which has been freely and gratefully given to us.Basic Text, p. 49=In recovery, we receive many gifts. Perhaps one of the greatest of these gifts is the spiritual awakening that begins when we stop using, growing stronger each day we apply the steps in our li...
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JFT January 29 The First Step-an action step
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Do we understand that we have no real control over drugs?Basic Text, p. 18=At first, many of us may have thought the First Step required no actionwe just surrender and go on to Step Two. But Step One does require action!The action we take in the First Step will be evident in the way we live, even from o...
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JFT January 28 An every-day addict
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We can never fully recover, no matter how long we stay clean.Basic Text, p. 84=After getting a little time in the program, some of us begin to think we have been cured. Weve learned everything NA has to teach us; weve grown bored with the meetings; and our sponsor keeps droning the same old refrain: ...
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Welcome!
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Morning and blessings of the day! Welcome to all newcomers those just coming around or just coming back.Welcome to those been around for few cups of coffee. Been pretty sick with walking pneumonia and bronchitis since New Years.Stopping in to see how all are doing ,just anit been writing.One thing t...
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A paper I presented at a recovery symposium !
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For all yew that like readin academic literature, here is one by me;
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We need your prayers !
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This has been a dark day for us. My younger brother is battling for life. He had too much to drink yesterday, and while walking back home, he collapsed. We attended on him and brought him home. I then phoned some doctor friends and they advised immediate hospitalization. I conveyed this to his wife wh...
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made my first amends today...
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At the advice of my grand-sponsor and sponsor I wrote a letter, signed it and dropped it off. Last weekend my fellowship helped me refine my amends to strip out all rationalization, excuses, blaming, bargaining and requests for acceptable responses. What was left was an arms-down admission of wron...
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JFT January 27 Learning how to live again
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We learn new ways to live. We are no longer limited to our old ideas.Basic Text, p. 56=We may or may not have been taught right from wrong and other basics of life as children. No matter, by the time we found recovery, most of us had only the vaguest idea of how to live. Our isolation from the rest of soc...
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JFT January 26 Self-centeredness
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The spiritual part of our disease is our total self-centeredness.Basic Text, p. 20=What is self-centeredness? It is our belief that the world revolves around us. Our wishes, our demands are the only ones worth consideration. Our self-centered minds believe they are capable of getting ever...
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2011 WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT ME.
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happy new year....what im grateful for.... a higher power that has given me what i need to be here. and that even though for so long i felt like such a waste of a person i couldnt believe why i shouldnt die. but getting clean again my Higher Power has given me insight that my purpose might just be carrying my...
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JFT January 25 An added gift
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We see it happening among us every day. This miraculous turnabout is evidence of a spiritual awakening.Basic Text, p. 51=We watch them walk in to their first meeting defeated, their spirits broken. Their suffering is obvious, and their desire for help even more apparent. They collect a welcom...
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JFT January 24 From isolation to connection
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Our disease isolated us... Hostile, resentful, self-centered, and self-seeking, we cut ourselves off from the outside world.Basic Text, p. 4=Addiction is an isolating disease, closing us off from society, family, and self. We hid. We lied. We scorned the lives we saw others living, surel...
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Thank God for another day clean!
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Good morning! I woke up this morning feeling so blessed. I thank God for another day clean, the relationship I have with my family now and just for all my basic neccessities. My s...
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A fine poem on H.P.
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I thank my H.P. in times of sorrow,grateful His love, grace and strength I can borrow.I thank my H.P. in times of joy,grateful my defects will not destroy.I thank my H.P. when times are mediocre,grateful my disease is not playing the joker.I thank my H.P. that I can see the lie,grateful, through N.A.,...
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JFT January 23 Serenity check
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Lack of daily maintenance can show up in many ways.Basic Text, p. 95=Ever had a perfect stranger remark about how great the weather was, only to reply It stinks? When this happens, we are probably suffering from a lack of daily maintenance in our program.In recovery, life can get pretty hectic. M...
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Another year in recovery
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I have made it through another year clean in recovery , thanks to all of you. Each year the last month I get complacent and know I need to do a lot of praying to the Higher Power and calling my sponsor and other men in the fellowship. I have just made 7 years clean and serene . When I came through the door into...
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JFT January 22 The school of recovery
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This is a program for learning.Basic Text, p. 16=Learning in recovery is hard work. The things we most need to know are often the hardest to learn. We study recovery to prepare ourselves for the experiences life will give us. As we listen to others share in meetings, we take mental notes we can ref...
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JFT January 21 Unity and uniformity
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Unity is a must in Narcotics Anonymous.Basic Text, p. 63=Unity is not uniformity. Unity springs from the fact that we have unity of purposeto recover, and to help others stay clean. Even so, we often find that while we strive to fulfill the same purpose, our means and methods may be radically diff...
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Shakin things up
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Seems a little quiet out on the message boards today. Hope everyone is having a great day! We have a CAR Workshop this weekend at our ASC meeting. I tried reading through some of it, but ended up zonked out with drool all over the cover. I did read through the motions, though. Some good, some... well....
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A little about me
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Hi everyone. My name is Kristie and this is my first time here. I have been reading some of the posts and would like to widen my support network. I have six months clean. Spent three months in a treatment facility and go to meetings everyday. I used for twenty years and never even considered getting clea...
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happy new year all! sorry i havent been around super busy just wanted to check in and say that im still clean :)
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JFT January 20 One promise, many gifts
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Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise, and that is freedom from active addiction...Basic Text, p. 106=Imagine how it might be if we had arrived at the doors of Narcotics Anonymous, desperate, wanting to stop using drugs, only to be met by a sales pitch: If you just work the steps and dont use...
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NEWCOMER NEEDING SUPPORT AND HELP
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hiya my name is kelly and i am an addict/alcoholic. My clean time date is 4 Janurary 2012. I live in northern ireland and i am very limited in 12 steps meetings there are only 2 in my area. I am really struggling and it was advised by a friend of mine maybe come on here to get some suppprt. I would appreciate if...
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JFT January 19 Making mountains into molehills
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When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably.Basic Text, p. 99=Some of us seem to make mountains out of molehills with our problems. Even those of us whove found some measure of serenity have probably blown a problem far out of proportion at some time in our re...
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JFT January 18 The simple inventory
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Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, our attitudes, and our relationships on a regular basis.Basic Text, p. 42=The daily inventory is a tool we can use to simplify our lives. The most complicated part of taking a regular inventor...
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JFT January 17 Forgiveness
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As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving. At least we know that we are no longer intentionally making life miserable for people.Basic Text, pp. 39-40=In our addiction we often treated others badly, sometimes deliberately finding ways to make their lives miserable. In...
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