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JFT January 20 One promise, many gifts
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Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise, and that is freedom from active addiction...Basic Text, p. 106=Imagine how it might be if we had arrived at the doors of Narcotics Anonymous, desperate, wanting to stop using drugs, only to be met by a sales pitch: If you just work the steps and dont use...
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NEWCOMER NEEDING SUPPORT AND HELP
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hiya my name is kelly and i am an addict/alcoholic. My clean time date is 4 Janurary 2012. I live in northern ireland and i am very limited in 12 steps meetings there are only 2 in my area. I am really struggling and it was advised by a friend of mine maybe come on here to get some suppprt. I would appreciate if...
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JFT January 19 Making mountains into molehills
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When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably.Basic Text, p. 99=Some of us seem to make mountains out of molehills with our problems. Even those of us whove found some measure of serenity have probably blown a problem far out of proportion at some time in our re...
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JFT January 18 The simple inventory
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Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, our attitudes, and our relationships on a regular basis.Basic Text, p. 42=The daily inventory is a tool we can use to simplify our lives. The most complicated part of taking a regular inventor...
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JFT January 17 Forgiveness
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As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving. At least we know that we are no longer intentionally making life miserable for people.Basic Text, pp. 39-40=In our addiction we often treated others badly, sometimes deliberately finding ways to make their lives miserable. In...
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i need a sponsor...
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i need a sponsor ... someone that will hold me accountable and call me on my bs
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JFT January 16 Make that call!
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We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected.... [But] our fellow members do understand us.Basic Text, p. 32=We need our fellow NA memberstheir experience, their friendship, their laughter, their guidance, and much, much more. Yet many of us hesitate to...
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Advice Needed - A Sponsor I can't talk to
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Hello, Everyone! Today is my 11th day clean and in recovery. On my first day in the program, I went to 5 meetings. There was a lady who shared at two of those meeting, and it seemed that she would make a good sponsor for me. She has several years of clean time, and seemed to know a good deal about how the progra...
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i just wanted to share some good stuff
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Hi everyone...it's me kelly. i just wanted to share some of the gifts i have been receiving the last couple weeks....anyways a couple of months ago i shared here about wanting to rebuild a relationship with my son who was returning from afganistan...maybe you remember? well i'm very happy to say th...
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JFT January 15 Fear
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We grow to feel comfortable with our Higher Power as a source of strength. As we learn to trust this Power, we begin to overcome our fear of life.Basic Text, p. 25=Powerless as we are, living on self-will is a frightening, unmanageable experience. In recovery, we have turned our will and our lives...
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Support for families?
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I'm new. My husband is on prescription narcotics due to abdominal surgeries. A physician friend told me that some of his behaviors indicate that he is addicted. Is there a forum or chat room for family members?
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A Day At A Time - January 14
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A Day At A Time January 14, 2012 Reflection For The Day I admitted that I couldn't win the booze and chemical battle on my own. So I finally began to accept the critically important fact that dependence on a Higher Power could help me achieve what had always seemed impossible. I stopped running. I sto...
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grateful for a new year
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2012 has been so good to me so far i can't comlain health problems are even gettign etter adding a few supplement to stop some of the pain meds are a bit hard to absorb after the stupid gastric bypass but i am coming theu clean and doing well learning to live not so much in isolation as anxiety sseems to fade i...
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sometimes i feel like i'm getting nowhere...
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I have been having this behavior pattern the last two years. I get clean, go to meetings, have a sponsor, work on steps...then after so much time has passed; I relapse. I joined the program in '07. My life has gotten better and the time betwwen relapsing has been the longest ever last time. But, I always...
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Starting the new year without a loved one
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I have recently lost my little brother at the age of 20. He died October 20th, 2011 of a heroin overdose. It is really hard for me to handle this, so I have been doing the only thing I know how to do and thats just block it. Me and my little brother were very close, he was my only true blood brother, he also left b...
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JFT January 14 A loving God
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Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us.... The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves.Basic Text, p. 24=Weve been told that we can believe in any kind of Higher Power we want as long as it is loving and, of course, greater than ourselves....
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JFT January 13 Surrender to win
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Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat.Basic Text, p. 22=Complete defeatwhat a concept! That must mean surrender. Surrenderto give up absolutely. To quit with no reservations. To put up our hands and quit fighting. Maybe to put up our hand at our first meeting...
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JFT January 12 Spiritual awakenings
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Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps...Step Twelve=How will I know when I have had a spiritual awakening? For many of us, a spiritual awakening comes gradually. Perhaps our first spiritual awareness is as simple as a new appreciation for life. Maybe one day well suddenly...
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Babies at a closed meeting
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Hello all, we are having an issue in our town. There is a closed meeting located in walking distance to an all women's facility. The women have been walking to the meeting with their toddlers and have been informed it is a closed meeting and they can't bring their babies. Only one person is having an issu...
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Dental care, but beware !
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you know ,, I went to the dentist for a false tooth replacement. A false tooth had chipped off when I was eating with NA pals. A tooth had to be extracted and was not painful at that moment because of local anesthesia. But the pain came on strong when it wore off half an hour later. I was forced to take parace...
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JFT January 11 Faith
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As we develop faith in our daily lives, we find that our Higher Power supplies us with the strength and guidance that we need.Basic Text, p. 94=Some of us come into recovery very frightened and insecure. We feel weak and alone. We are uncertain of our direction and dont know where to go for answers....
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JFT January 10 Gratitude
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Im very grateful to have come to believe.IP No. 21, The Loner=Belief in a Higher Power can make all the difference when the going gets tough! When things dont go our way in recovery, our sponsor may direct us to make a gratitude list. When we do, we should include our faith in a Power greater than ours...
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Guidance
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Pill Addicted for the better part of 6 yrs. I have no idea who I am sober. I feel alone and beaten by my addiction. Keeps pulling me back even with the cry, screaming,puking,the cold sweats it doesn't matter. It's never satisfied. I need guidance on where to go, how to be but most importantly how to beat th...
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JFT January 9 Returning our sponsor's kindness
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Our earliest involvements with others often begin with our sponsor.Basic Text, p. 57=Our sponsors can be abundant sources of recovery information, wisdom, and loving words. Theyve done so much for us. From the late night telephone calls to the hours spent listening to our recovery writing, t...
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i need all the advice I can recieve on dealing with my boyfriend's opiate addiction..
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I would like to try and keep this short but I feel it is neccasary to give some history in order to get a fair assessment.. I am 29 y/o, and in my early 20s for about 4 years I had a bad benzo addiction, and until i lost a friend & hit my own rock bottom, I got myself clean.. fast foward a year and half of sobrie...
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JFT January 8 Growing up
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Our spiritual condition is the basis for a successful recovery that offers unlimited growth.Basic Text, p. 44=When our members celebrate their recovery anniversaries, they often say that theyve grown up in NA. Well, then, we think, what does that mean? We start to wonder if were grownups yet....
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JFT January 6 "How does it work?"
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January 6How does it work?I used to think that I had all the answers, but today I am glad that I dont.=What are the two favorite words of most addicts? I know! Unfortunately, many of us arrive in NA thinking we have all the answers. We have a lot of knowledge about whats wrong with us. But in and of itse...
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A Day At A Time - January 6, 2012
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A Day At A Time January 6, 2012 Reflection For The Day When I finally convince myself to let go of a problem that's been tearing me apart -- when I take the action to set aside my will and let God handle the problem -- my torment subsides immediately. If I continue to stay out of my own way, then solutions begi...
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emotions...
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feeling them....wow i cried over a cartoon pixar "up" who does this? sounds crazy maybe, but i gotta say i am so grateful to feel anything...so laugh if you will,,,i will too...because it was amazing to cry at a cartoon. Thank You God for this gift! Grateful!
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