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JFT March 23 God's gifts
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We do the footwork and accept whats being given to us freely on a daily basis.Basic Text, p. 47=Our relationship with our Higher Power is a two-way street. In prayer, we speak and God listens. When we meditate, we do our best to listen for the will of our Higher Power. We know that we are responsible...
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JFT March 24 Letting go of the past
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It is not where we were that counts, but where we are going.Basic Text, p. 23=When we first find recovery, some of us feel shame or despair at calling ourselves addicts. In the early days, we may be filled with both fear and hope as we struggle to find new meaning in our lives. The past may seem inescap...
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JFT March 22 The principle of self-support
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In our addiction, we were dependent upon people, places, and things. We looked to them to support us and supply the things we found lacking in ourselves.Basic Text, pp. 70-71=In the animal kingdom, there is a creature that thrives on others. It is called a leech. It attaches itself to people and...
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JFT March 21 A treatable disease
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Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs.Basic Text, p. 3=At our first meeting, we may have been taken aback at the way members shared about how the disease of addiction had affected their lives. We thought to ourselves, Disease? Ive just got a drug problem! What in the worl...
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No kidding.
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So, I've been having really vivd and self-destructive dreams. But onl this week... I think. I slipped up (suprise suprise) for a few weeks. And this is my first day off from work and school in four months. So I originally thought that I was just stressed and had little "me" time to set aside an...
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Addiction kills
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a freind lost his cousin 1-1/2 years ago now just lost the sister to the cousin who died yesterday, its crazy but it's happened, over dose both times. If you think you have one left it might be the last.........
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JFT March 15 Feeling a part of
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"The get-togethers after our meetings are good opportunities to share things that we didn't get to discuss during the meeting." Basic Text p. 29 Active addiction set us apart from society, isolating us. Fear was at the core of that alienation. We believed that if we let others get to know u...
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JFT March 20 Higher power
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Most of us have no trouble admitting that addiction had become a destructive force in our lives. Our best efforts resulted in ever greater destruction and despair. At some point, we realized that we needed the help of some Power greater than our addiction.Basic Text, p. 24=Most of us know withou...
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JFT March 19 Something valuable to share
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A simple, honest message of recovery from addiction rings true.Basic Text, p. 51=Youre in a meeting. The sharing has been going on for some time. One or two members have described their spiritual experiences in an especially meaningful way. Another has had us all rolling in the aisles with ent...
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JFT March 18 The full message
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There is a special feeling for addicts when they discover that there are other people who share their difficulties, past and present.Basic Text, pp. 55-56=The wealth of our recovery is too good to keep to ourselves. Some of us believe that when we talk in meetings, we should remember the newcomer...
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Im your disease and my name is addiction....
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a terrible, destructive force ! -- Edited by Raman on Friday 16th of March 2012 05:47:11 AM
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JFT March 5 True courage
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Those who make it through these times show a courage not their own.Basic Text, p. 86=Before coming to NA, many of us thought we were brave simply because we had never experienced fear. We had drugged all our feelings, fear among them, until we had convinced ourselves that we were tough, courageous...
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my brother died !
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im sad this day. my younger brother died at age 48.24 days in coma and finally died Thursday morning at 8 am. (Indian standard time)He's been in my life 48 years, I will miss him,,, R.I.P Chiku the point is, he had a chance to recover, but did not see this disease for what it is; a destructive and killing pow...
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JFT March 16 Inventory
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The purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to sort through the confusion and the contradiction of our lives so that we can find out who we really are.Basic Text, p. 27=Using addicts are a confused and confusing bunch of people. Its hard to tell from one minute to the next what theyre g...
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JFT March 14 Relationships
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Also, our inventories usually include material on relationships.Basic Text, p. 29=What an understatement this is! Especially in later recovery, entire inventories may focus on our relationships with others. Our lives have been filled with relationships with lovers, friends, parents, c...
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hello
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Happy Birthday To ME. 21 baby.
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hey Liz
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How are you and the town healing?
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JFT March 13 The one special person
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A sponsor is not necessarily a friend, but may be someone in whom we confide. We can share things with our sponsor that we might not be comfortable sharing in a meeting.IP No. 11, Sponsorship, Revised=Weve asked someone to sponsor us, and the reasons we have for asking that particular person are as m...
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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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