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JFT February 4 Feeling good isn't the point
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For us, recovery is more than just pleasure.Basic Text, p. 43=In our active addiction, most of us knew exactly how we were going to feel from one day to the next. All we had to do was read the label on the bottle or know what was in the bag. We planned our feelings, and our goal for each day was to feel good...
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JFT February 3 We need each other
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Anyone may join us, regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion.Basic Text, p. 9=Addiction closed our minds to anything new or different. We didnt need anyone or anything, we thought. There was nothing of value to be found in anyone from a different neighborh...
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Worried Mom - Advise, Help, what do I do ?
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I don't know where to begin, but I will make it as short as possible. My 16 year old son (almost 17) was "experimenting" with pot almost a year ago. We (parents) found out about it. Read him his rights, he swore he'd never do it again.....well we all know how that goes, he did do it again, we submi...
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JFT February 2 Goodwill
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Goodwill is best exemplified in service; proper service is Doing the right thing for the right reason.Basic Text, p. xv=The spiritual core of our disease is self-centeredness. In dealing with others, the only motive our addiction taught us was selfishnesswe wanted what we wanted when we wante...
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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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hi
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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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