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JFT March 12 Getting out of the rut
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Many times in our recovery, the old bugaboos will haunt us. Life may again become meaningless, monotonous, and boring.Basic Text, p. 78=Sometimes it seems as though nothing changes. We get up and go to the same job every day. We eat dinner at the same time every night. We attend the same meeting...
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What's with all the "sober" talk?
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I don't understand something.This is a narcotics anonymous message board,yet I often see references to being "sober" or "clean and sober"Is alcohol not a drug?Is it any different from a bag of dope? or a prescription narcotic?Are there two diseases? One for drinkers and on...
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JFT March 11 Lightening the load
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It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another. It will make us feel better to clean up our lives...Basic Text, p. 38=Sometimes we need something tangible to help us understand what holding a resentment is doing to us. We may not be aware of how destructive resentments actually ar...
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Another controversy
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IMHO this board functions at it's best when the caring spirit of one addict helping another prevails.However, like any community (family?) there are controversies that are periodically visited. The clarity statement seems to be the dominant topic in this realm but there are other, bigger fish t...
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JFT March 10 Our own recovery
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March 10Our own recoveryThe steps are our solution. They are our survival kit. They are our defense against addiction, a deadly disease. Our steps are the principles that make our recovery possible.Basic Text, p. 19=Theres lots to like in Narcotics Anonymous. The meetings, for one, are great...
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bicycle accident
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i fell hard off my bike yesterday avoiding a car... no helmit soooooooooooo i have 5 stitches ovwe my right eye and a broken elbow. posting is a challenge because of course it's my right arm in a shoulder to wrist cast...\ lessons learned!
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JFT March 9 Small things
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In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills.Basic Text, p. 90=Making mountains out of molehills seems to be our specialty. Have you heard it said that to an addict, a flat tire is a traumatic event? Or how about those of us who forget all pretense of prin...
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JFT March 8 Learning to love ourselves
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What we want most is to feel good about ourselves.Basic Text, p. 101=Well love you until you can learn to love yourself. These words, heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerlythe day when well know how to love ourselves.Self-esteemwe all want this elusive quality as s...
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Please pray for me
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I am dealing with constant sounds in my head. They go on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I also have disturbing dreams and horrible instrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts are terrible things/visions you see in your mind or words that just pop into your head. I have never thought these things before...
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JFT March 7 Priorities
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The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we may forget that our first priority is to stay clean.Basic Text, p. 43=Things can get really good in our recovery. Perhaps weve found our soul mate, built a rewarding career, started a family. Maybe our relationships with our family members ha...
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JFT March 6 Rationalizing away our recovery
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As a result of the Twelve Steps, Im not able to hold on to old ways of deceiving myself.=We all rationalize. Sometimes we know we are rationalizing, admit we are rationalizing, yet continue to behave according to our rationalizations! Recovery can become very painful when we decide that, for on...
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WELL I HAVENT POSTED IN AWHILE...SO CHECKIN IN...
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IM CELEBRATING 10 MONTHS AS OF LAST TUESDAY. LIFE IS GETTING BETTER IN SO MANY WAYS. IVE GOT THE ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE..FOR ANOTHER DAY CLEAN. I AM A PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF SOCIETY AND I LIVE LIFE ON ITS TERMS LIKE THEM OR NOT....THATS THE WAY IT GOES....I GET ON MY KNEES AND PRAY AND PROBABLY COULD DO BE...
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Understanding vs. Knowing
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Battling eating disorders has also been a huge part of my addictive life, essentially an interchangable behaviour, using starvation in place of drugs or vice versa. I've always known that I'm an "All or Nothing" person and thought of it as being a character flaw, more or less, serio...
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JFT March 5 From rude awakening to spiritual awakening
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When a need arises for us to admit our powerlessness, we may first look for ways to exert power against it. After exhausting these ways, we begin sharing with others and find hope.Basic Text, p. 82=Weve sometimes heard it said in our meetings that rude awakenings lead to spiritual awakenings. Wh...
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JFT March 4 The process
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This program has become a part of me.... I understand more clearly the things that are happening in my life today. I no longer fight the process.Basic Text, p. 127=In active addiction, things happened seemingly without rhyme or reason. We just did things, often without knowing why or what the r...
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JFT March 3 Relapse
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There will be times, however, when we really feel like using. We want to run, and we feel lousy. We need to be reminded of where we came from and that it will be worse this time. This is when we need the program the most.Basic Text, p. 81=If were contemplating a relapse, we should think our using throu...
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New :)
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My name is January. I am 32 and live in New Jersey. Getting ready to attend my first meeting. I am scared out of my mind, nervous, excited and happy. I read through some of the posts and am excited to post here. I am an addict- 2nd time around. It has been a three month relapse after 3 years of being cl...
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10th to 11th step
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I was a total psycho the last month or so. The whole mountains out molehills thing. Last weekend, I shut my phone off, locked the doors, shut the blinds, and took some serious time for myself. It was amazing!
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JFT March 2 Success
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Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar.Basic Text, p. 14=Before coming to NA, few of us had much experience with success. Every attempt to stop using on our own had ended in failure. We had begun to give up hope of finding any relief from active addiction. We had grown accustomed to fa...
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JFT March 1 Anxiety attack!
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[The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it.Basic Text, p. 27=Ever had a panic attack? Everywhere we turn, lifes demands overwhelm us. Were paralyzed, and we dont know what to do about it. How do we break an anxiety attack?First, we stop....
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Support for families within NA
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My 18 year old just arrived home yesterday from being away for a year. He's been in intense therapy and rehab. He's addicted to marijunana. He just graduated and is focused on staying sober and going to college. However, he's returned to the area where alot of the addiction started.. I am beyond co...
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Getting Somewhere?
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I have been scoping meetings for a bit, People watching. Mental notes. And the like. They say in the beginning of the meetings to raise your hand if you can be a temp sponsor. Here is my question: I move to another state in roughly thirty days. Should I pick up a temp sponsor or just stick with regular meeti...
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gift or trouble?
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this is my first post on these boards. after 2+ decades of recovery i find myself questioning my fundamental understanding of right & wrong and i need some truly anonymous help. i've been reading some really good recovery here, so i'm hoping i'm in the right place. for reasons that may become...
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JFT February 29 Anything!
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Our disease has been arrested, and now anything is possible. We become increasingly open-minded and open to new ideas in all areas of our lives.Basic Text, p. 106=For many of us, our first few months or years in NA are a wonderful time. Were willing to try anything, and our eyes are constantly open...
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tragedy
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well i wish this update came with better news. This morning at 730 a boy TJ Lane opened fire in my high school. (i graduated in 09) 5 were injured. of those five 1 died within the hour his name was Danny Parmertor. he was shot in the head. at about 2 the second died his name Demetrius. and around 6 the third wa...
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JFT February 28 The greatest gift
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Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future.Basic Text, p. 96=When we begin coming to meetings, we hear other addicts talking about the gifts they have received as a result of this program, things we never thought of as gifts before. One such gift is the renewed abili...
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STeps 7 and 8
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My sponcer wants me to find out what other addicts got out of steps 7 and 8. Would any of you share???? Thanks
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JFT February 27 "Pure" motives
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We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that weve been doing better than weve been feeling.Basic Text, p. 42=Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: When you wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for reflection. Lie back, ga...
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JFT February 26 Remorse
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The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse.Basic Text, p. 39=Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to consider. Our remorse was often inte...
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JFT..February 26 ...Remorse
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February 26 Remorse "The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse." Basic Text, p. 38 Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to conside...
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