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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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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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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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