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A Very Happy New Year all !
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Hi,, I wish you all the best of recovery in 2012 ! In this leap year, Il aim to take that leap of Faith, a ian step out into the unknown spaces in my recovery. I want to be a better recovering addict than I was in 2011 ! And I know Il have your company and support, as you'll have mine !
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Happy New Year (video from John to you!)
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JFT January 1 Vigilance
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We keep what we have only with vigilance...Basic Text, p. 60=How do we remain vigilant about our recovery? First, by realizing that we have a disease we will always have. No matter how long weve been clean, no matter how much better our lives have become, no matter what the extent of our spiritual h...
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feeling like giving up
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first let me say hey as i am new to this board. i have been clean since may 10th but i havent really been working the program i go to meetings. i have a sponser but not good one that will push me and help me learn the program. this week my world has fell apart it seems. i am 20 years old i got out of prison almost a ye...
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december 28 2011
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8 months clean again on the 28th...happy belated birthday to new self....wtg me, keep it up...
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Horrid grief...Suggestions?
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Hi Family, I am in bad grief and want to know what "tools" are the best for overcoming great sadness, nearly bringing me to my knees. I guess the help i need is to deal with strong urges to use (medicate myself). I will feel better, I know, after I hear from a few of you. Thanks, Nikky
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JFT December 29 Through others' eyes
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December 29Through others eyesWhen someone points out a shortcoming, our first reaction may be defensive.... [But] if we truly want to be free, we will take a good look at input from fellow addicts.Basic Text, p. 36=At some point in our recovery, we come to the awkward realization that the way we see...
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JFT December 31 Being of service
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Working with others is only the beginning of service work.Basic Text, p. 59=Were in recovery now. Through living the program, weve attained some stability in our lives. Our faith in a Higher Power has grown. Our individual spiritual awakening is progressing comfortably. So now what? Do we...
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New Year's on the horizon; beware !
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Time for celebrating, the whole world seems to go completely crazy at these times. Being a musician, I look forward to New Year's eve play my sax and sing and entertain. Im glad to be clean, I usually get super-connected with others in recovery at these times. As you know, these can be fun times as well...
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JFT December 30 Action and prayer
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...growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer.Basic Text, p. 37=Sometimes it seems as if our recovery is growing much too slowly. We struggle with the steps; we wrestle with the same problems; we labor under the same uncomfortable feelings day after day. We wish that recovery wo...
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Back to the basics!!
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My first Post!!
God it has been a long road for me to get to the point where I willing want to surrender my will to the Program. I have been doing the revolving door of meetings for seven years with little success. Total denial that my life was out of control and I was powerless over drugs. I hated the progr...
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Mandatory smoke break issues
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Hi everyone... I live in a recovery house/program and we have 2 NA meetings a week but I also goto AA about every day.
Well, at first the whole NA meeting was optional but only 2-3 people would show up sometimes so the manager decided to make the meetings a mandatory part of the recovery program. I was a...
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JFT December 28 Depression
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We are no longer fighting fear, anger, guilt, self-pity, or depression.Basic Text, p. 27=As addicts, many of us experience depression from time to time. When we feel depressed, we may be tempted to isolate ourselves. However, if we do this, our depression may turn to despair. We cant afford to...
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A Day At A Time December 28
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A Day At A Time December 28 Reflection For The Day The Program, for me, is not a place nor a philosophy, but a highway to freedom. The highway leads me toward the goal of a "spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps." The highway doesn't get me to the goal as quickly as I some wish, but I t...
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JFT December 27 God could restore us to sanity
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The process of coming to believe restores us to sanity. The strength to move into action comes from this belief.Basic Text, p. 25=Now that weve finally admitted our insanity and seen examples of it in all its manifestations, we might be tempted to believe that we are doomed to repeat this behavior...
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JFT December 26 Never-failing power
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As we learn to trust this Power, we begin to overcome our fear of life.Basic Text, p. 25=We are people accustomed to placing all our eggs in one basket. Many of us had one particular drug of choice that was our favorite. We relied on it to get us through each day and make life bearable. We were faithfu...
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JFT December 25 Anonymity and self-will
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The drive for personal gain... which brought so much pain in the past falls by the wayside if we adhere to the principle of anonymity.Basic Text, p. 76=The word anonymity itself means namelessness, but theres a larger principle at work in the anonymity of the NA program: the principle of selflessn...
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EVERYONE, have a Merry Christmas
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Go to meetings, hearing just what we need...
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Have you ever noticed how sometimes a meeting can be exactly what we need..... at the momoment..... to continue onward with our recovery? I was in a funk for a couple of days and was distressed to have those negative feelings welling up inside me, trying to take me down into that black hole of bad feelin...
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JFT December 24 The group
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The Twelfth Step of our personal program also says that we carry the message to the addict who still suffers. The group is the most powerful vehicle we have for carrying the message.Basic Text, p. 68=When we first come to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, we meet recovering addicts. We know they are a...
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A Day At A Time
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A Day At A Time December 18 Reflection For The Day I'm learning -- all too slowly, at times -- that when I give up the losing battle of trying to run my life in my own way, I gain abiding peace and deep serenity. For many of us, that learning process is a painfully slow one. Eventually, however, we understa...
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the best gift ever...
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getting clean was a gift,,,a wonderful gift i received from a power greater then me and im truely blessed that i was able to remain clean one day at time because of n.a. and all the people who share the same primary purpose in the rooms without you all i would not have the gifts i recive from the experienc...
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it is what it is...2011
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looking back on 2011: its been up and down, forwards,backwards. stressfull and calm...it looked something like this...i ended a long time relationship, my oldest son got married, then he left for afganistan, i went to rehab, i got sober again,became homeless, i had gullbladder surgery, found ou...
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Total control = Out of control
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Clean Anniversary - 22 years today
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The journey has been long, and it has been hard...But the adventure of living life, each day has been worth it.I've learned and I'm still teachable, I have grown, but still growing,I do not seek an applause, for to do so would be the same as applauding a cowboy with hemroids for not riding his horse any m...
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had an amazing visit from my son but...
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so yesterday my son and daughter in law came to visit me. it was the the first time since they were married earlier in the yr. and the first time also since his return from afganistan..and it was a very nice visit for as few hours and it was truely a warm visit. i was hi with joy and happiness. after they...
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JFT December 23 New ideas
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We reevaluate our old ideas so we can become acquainted with the new ideas that lead to a new way of life.Basic Text, p. 94=Learning to live a new way of life can be difficult. Sometimes, when the going gets especially hard, were tempted to follow the path of least resistance and live by our old ideas a...
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JFT December 22 A new way to live
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When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we all face the same dilemma.... Either go on as best we can to the bitter endsjails, institutions, or deathor find a new way to live.Basic Text, p. 87=What was the worst aspect of active add...
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JUST FOR TODAY!
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BLESSINGS OF THIS DAY.... I can truly identify with Holiday periods not always being merry and full of cheer. For years ,as I was caught in the grip,absent from life,compulsed and obsessed by getting the next one, ALL about me, the CORE of our illness "self-centeredness" taking front sta...
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PAYING IT FORWARD!
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Good Morning! Today I want to pay forward the love I feel from my Higher Power to you,feeling truly blessed as my eyes were opened another day free of active drug addiction and ready to "go to work' through the application of spiritual principles in actions, attitudes and behaviors of my life ,gu...
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