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Brain vent
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Today is 4/10.
And I am well aware that this date may not be significant to others. However, 4/10/06 my father died of an overdose. It's been six years now, and I have since learned that mourning the loss of anyone, but especially an important figure in ones life, never truely goes away. I have learned t...
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JFT April 16 "Acting as if"
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Today, we seek solutions, not problems. We try what we have learned on an experimental basis.Basic Text, p. 58=The first time we heard that we should act as if, many of us exclaimed, But thats not honest! I thought we were always supposed to be honest about our feelings in Narcotics Anonymous.Pe...
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JFT April 15 Keep coming back
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We have come to enjoy living clean and want more of the good things that the NA Fellowship holds for us.Basic Text, p. 27=Can you remember a time when you looked at the addicts recovering in NA and wondered, If they arent using drugs, what on earth do they have to laugh about? Did you believe that the fu...
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JFT April 14 A new vision
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Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear?Basic Text, p. 34=Why do we call them shortcomings? Perhaps they should be called long-goings, because thats often what it takes for them to fade from our lives. Some of us feel that our shortcomings are the very characteristics t...
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JFT April 13 People-pleasing
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...approval-seeking behavior carried us further into our addiction....Basic Text, p. 14=When others approve of what we do or say, we feel good; when they disapprove, we feel bad. Their opinions of us, and how those opinions make us feel, can have positive value. By making us feel good about ste...
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life in the bret zone
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hi all i missed posting here but i have not had access to a computer in a while got a new laptop so i hope to be posting more often it has been interesting in my life of late had a bit of a bad patch but i came out the other sidejust a little bent but i am going to meetings and working the steps then out of the blue i d...
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JFT April 12 The big picture
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All spiritual awakenings have some things in common. Common elements include an end to loneliness and a sense of direction in our lives.Basic Text, p. 50=Some kinds of spiritual experiences take place when we confront something larger than we are. We suspect that forces beyond our understand...
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JFT April 11 A closed mind
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A new idea cannot be grafted onto a closed mind.... Open-mindedness leads us to the very insights that have eluded us during our lives.Basic Text, p. 96=We arrived in NA at the lowest point in our lives. Wed just about run out of ideas. What we needed most when we got here were new ideas, new ways of l...
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JFT April 10 Too busy
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We must use what we learn or we will lose it, no matter how long we have been clean.Basic Text, p. 85=After putting some clean time together, some of us have a tendency to forget what our most important priority is. Once a week or less we say, Ive gotta get to a meeting tonight. Its been... Weve been ca...
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JFT April 9 Acting out
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"We learn to experience feelings and realize they can do us no harm unless we act on them." IP No. 16, "For the Newcomer" Many of us came to Narcotics Anonymous with something less than an overwhelming desire to stop using. Sure, the drugs were causing us problems, and we wanted t...
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Spent all day Saturday Pregaming....
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haha, just thought you might enjoy my perspective. I spent the day getting my boat ready for the 2012 fishing season. THAT is my way of 'pregaming', no drugs needed when life beckons!!!
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JFT April 8 Happiness
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We come to know happiness, joy, and freedom.Basic Text, p. 88=If someone stopped you on the street today and asked if you were happy, what would you say? Well, gee, lets see... I have a place to live, food in the refrigerator, a job, my car is running... Well, yes, I guess Im happy, you might respond...
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update
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helloooooooooooo Everybody! how are you? im Great! well no not really but im making the best of it. well kind of. im still alive. thats about all i wanted to share. see ya on the flip side!
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so how then
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people make it sound so easy as if you can just make a choice and quit. so how do you quit when you don't believe you have choices but a physical addiction.
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Gratitude
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I wanted to share with everyone a little piece of how NA has worked in my life today. My sister who 13 years ago stepped over me while I was detoxing on the floor and on my 1 year anniversary asked me if I wanted a parade for doing what "normal" people do everyday; has left me with her children for t...
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JFT April 5 Identification
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Someone finally knew the crazy thoughts that I had and the crazy things Id done.=Addicts often feel terminally unique. Were sure that no one used drugs like we did or had to do the things that we did to get them. Feeling that no one really understands us can keep us from recovery for many years.But on...
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I have nothing to FEAR!
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JUST FOR TODAY! I will be unafraid, my thoughts will be on my new associations,people who are not using and have found a new way to live, as long as I follow that way,I have nothing to FEAR! WE have nothing to fear sharing and living our lives the NA way.Welcome to all Newcomers,those who may just be comi...
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JFT April 7 The value of the past
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This firsthand experience in all phases of illness and recovery is of unparalleled therapeutic value. We are here to share it freely with any addict who wants to recover.Basic Text, p. 10=Most of us came into the program with some serious regrets. We had never finished high school, or we had misse...
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JFT April 6 Growing honesty
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On a practical level, changes occur because whats appropriate to one phase of recovery may not be for another.Basic Text, p. 105=When we first came to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us had no legitimate occupation. Not all of us suddenly decide were going to become honest and productive model citi...
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JFT April 4 Guarding our recovery
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Remember that we... are ultimately responsible for our recovery and our decisions.Basic Text, p. 103=Most of us will face choices that challenge our recovery. If we find ourselves in extreme physical pain, for example, we will have to decide whether or not we will take medication. We will have...
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JFT April 3 For you alone
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The idea of a spiritual awakening takes many different forms in the different personalities that we find in the fellowship.Basic Text, p. 49=Though we all work the same steps, each of us experiences the spiritual awakening resulting from them in our own way. The shape that spiritual awakening t...
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yes I am alive
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I know I have not been around to post i am still clean and doing ok going thru alot of medical issues lately will try to remeber to post now and again hope all is weel and tht this finds you blessed
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prayers
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well my best friends brother has entered treatment for the first time yesterday. its really hard on their family because dad was an alcoholic and killed a guy in a drunk driving accident and is now in jail and the fact that his son is following in his footsteps is very difficult. i hope he takes it serious...
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JFT April 2 Attraction
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Our public image consists of what we have to offer: a successful, proven way of maintaining a drug-free lifestyle.Basic Text, p. 75=Yes, we are attracting new members. More and more addicts are finding Narcotics Anonymous. But how do we treat our newest members when they arrive, worn out from...
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JFT April 1 Love and addiction
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Some of us first saw the effects of addiction on the people closest to us. We were very dependent on them to carry us through life. We felt angry, disappointed, and hurt when they found other interests, friends, and loved ones.Basic Text, p. 7=Addiction affected every area of our lives. Just as w...
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JFT March 31 Insides and outsides
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Our real value is in being ourselves.Basic Text, p. 105=As we work the steps, were bound to discover some basic truths about ourselves. The process of uncovering our secrets, exposing them, and searching our characters reveals our true nature. As we become acquainted with ourselves, well nee...
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JFT March 30 God-centeredness
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Gradually, as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope.Basic Text, p. 95=What a glorious thing to have hope! Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us lived lives of utter hopelessness. We believed we were destined to die from our disease.Many members...
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Perfect?
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"HOw do you define a word without concrete meaning?To each his own ,the saying goes,so why push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is where you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these,and anyway when did creating a flawless fa...
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JFT March 29 Our own true will
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...Gods will for us consists of the very things we most value. Gods will... becomes our own true will for ourselves.Basic Text, p. 48=Its human nature to want something for nothing. We may be ecstatic when a store cashier gives us back change for a twenty though we only paid with a ten. We tend to th...
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A beautiful weekend!
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Today I will work my last SPEAKER JAM here in New York State. I will continue my service at the coffee commitment.Leaving JAM early tonight as family coming over for my birthday celebration,cake and coffee as my wife and I going away for weekend .Not copping short here,but birthday is scheduled tomo...
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