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How times change.....
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It was just about a year ago that my world started to cave in on me, my gig was just about up. My husband had been telling me for a couple of years how sick I was, that I was killing myself, that I had to stop or he was going to leave. So I'd stop for a while, or hide it better (yeah, right  ), but I always went back...
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OUR BEST THINKING GOT US HERE....
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OUR BEST THINKING GOT US HERE.... That is one of the first things i heard in the rooms of n.a. and it seemed to be what i call a clarity statement . For one reason or another we come to n.a. but there is one reason that i keep coming back...because my best thinking wasnt good enough...my thinking was cloude...
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JFT November 20 Finding fulfillment
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We werent oriented toward fulfillment; we focused on the emptiness and worthlessness of it all.Basic Text, p. 89=There were probably hundreds of times in our active addiction when we wished we could become someone else. We may have wished we could trade places with someone who owned a nice car or...
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checking in
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HELLO EVERYONE..HAVEN'T BEEN HERE IN AWHILE...ALL IS WELL WITH ME..LIFE IS STILL WONDERFUL AND SO GRATEFUL TO BE CLEAN..I TURNED 50 YEARS OLD YESTERDAY..STILL AT AWE..THAT NOT ONLY I AM CLEAN..BUT THE LOVE THAT I CONTINUE TO RECEIVE..I AM GRATEFUL..WISHING EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU A WONDERFUL JOU...
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My first day
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Last night I decided to stop with the pain meds I've been taking and abusing. I need help, man. I don't want to live this way. I don't want to be an addict. But I don't know if I'm strong enough to do it. I need to talk with people who know what I'm going through and how to get better. I need your help.
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JFT November 19 The language of empathy
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...the addict would find from the start as much identification as each needed to convince himself that he could stay clean, by the example of others who had recovered for many years.Basic Text, p. 88=Many of us attended our first meeting and, not being entirely sure that NA was for us, found much to c...
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Are the NA Basic Texts 5th and 6th editions causing a dilemma in NA?
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Are the NA Basic Texts 5th and 6th editions causing a dilemma in NA? Are the NA Basic Texts 5th and 6th editions diluting/blurring the clarity of the NA message.? _____________________________________________ NA,,BASIC TEXT,5th EDITION,,,, PG.189,,DRINKING ALCOHOL,, PG.174,,ALCOHOLICS,...
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Sober and clean Rosie
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does anybody go to the meetings?
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I clicked on the link for the 10p.m. meeting and i was the only one there. so i'm wondering do the on line meetings go on any longer?
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feeling very grateful today...
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im very grateful that im clean today. im grateful that i am able to hold my self accountable and live in the moment. im grateful for second chances as a cancer survivor this year i am given a second chance to live. im grateful that i have grandchildren whom i see everyday and not from the other side of a lo...
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daily check in
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hello my name is kelly and of course i am an addict... does anyone feel like me? i know that im not the only one who feels like i let my life get away...i used for the better part of my life beginning at the age of 13 and i continued to live my addiction for 38 years as it was normal. But now that ive had some ti...
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JFT November 18 Self-discovery
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The Tenth Step can help us correct our living problems and prevent their recurrence.Basic Text, p. 42=Our identities, how we think and feel, have been shaped by our experiences. Some of our experiences have made us better people; others have caused us shame or embarrassment; all of them have inf...
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JFT November 17 Walking through pain
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We never have to use again, no matter how we feel. All feelings will eventually pass.Basic Text, p. 82=It hurts like never before. You get out of bed after a sleepless night, talk to God, and still dont feel any better. It will pass, a little voice tells you. When? you wonder, as you pace and mutter...
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Help Please
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I am new to all of this. I want to start a new life without my addiction to a prescription drug. Someone please help me to get started, I am lost. Thanks Kacie
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job market
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i'm new to this so pls bear with me. after getting clean (i have 7 months) i moved back home with my partner who has decided to try again. great right? well, i got here about a month ago and aside from a part-time job, i'm having trouble finding a real job. that really effects my self-esteem not to mention th...
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waiting for my son to come home from afganistan...
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hi again i'm kelly and i am an addict. so i thought i'd share alittle about how i'm feeling and maybe get some feedback from all of you that care to give some.. so my son is coming home any day now from the war, i am so excited about this as there hasnt been a day that hes been over there in afganistan that i have...
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JFT November 16 Alone no more
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We gradually and carefully pull ourselves out of the isolation and loneliness of addiction and into the mainstream of life.Basic Text, p. 37=Many of us spent much of our using time alone, avoiding other peopleespecially people who were not usingat all costs. After years of isolation, trying to...
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Thank God for N.A.
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hi my name is kelly and i Am an addict. i havent gone to a meeting for a couple months but i came across this link on facebook for online 12 step programs and i am so grateful. i've just moved to md. from ca. and meetings are alittle too far to travel to here without a vehicle. anyways i cherish the rooms of n....
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Not sure if I'm going to make it through the day
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And quite frankly I dont want to... I just want to scare the shit out of my son and show his spoiled little ass what real desperation is all about. Sounds incredibly childish and I'm not acting very parent-like I know but I'm just so damn sick and tired of dealing with his bull. I haven't stopped cryin...
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aint no mountain high enough !
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Yes, recovery has unlocked many new dreams and shown endless possiblities ! no mountain's too high, not even Everest !
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the way we say it,,
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a blind man sat on a side walk with a sign that said "Im blind, please help". Many passed by, some noticed and the rare one even threw a coin his way. Then it so happened that a young marketing student passed by and saw what was going on. And she didnt like what she saw. So, she went up, took the plac...
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JFT November 15 Letting go
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Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live.Basic Text, p. 26=How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through others. When we accept that we don...
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not sure what to do??
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ight so i been to treatment before years ago. im kinda clean rite now but totally gonna relapse and i never went thru the steps really or any of the program before bc i didnt care. now i set up an intake/assessment/evaluation appointment wit a local treatment facility for tuesday, it is outpatient only...
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made it another year :)
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Hey everyone Just thought I'd share that I made it another year clean.... total now 4 :) I never thought this was ever possible or that life could be so good. thanks to this program all my dreams are coming true and the new ones I create are in the process of actualizing.... Thank you everyone!! Andrea
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PLEASE HELP.. GOING TO START GETTING CLEAN
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Hello... I am new to this website, and have some questions. I have been taking pain pills for 5 years now... Started with vicodin, ending with 10mg oxycodones about 10-12 pills a day.. I was prescribed them for a legit reason and now it has just gotten out of controland to much to handle. Im taking wayyy m...
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helloooooo
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hmm the board is a little slow lately. welp everything is just dandy over here. IT SNOWED TODAY! the first snow of the year and its beautiful. i can't wait till we get 4 feet.
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JFT November 14 Not just surviving
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When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving.Basic Text, p. 52=Id be better off dead! A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was more of the same miserable existence. Our hold o...
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I need to blow my horn more,,,
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I need to speak up for myself more fearlessly and share real feelings with people ! Especially those on the "outside" that have many "covers" going for them ! I realize that when Im not assertive and communicate on a feelings level, I begin to get abusive, derisive or silently re...
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Had to share this share by a FB friend !
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Can You Date In (early) Recovery Without Losing Yourself?Posted by AshleyD on November 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment In my first year of sobriety, it was suggested to me by my sponsor that I write out a list of the qualities that I looked for in a man. Ug! I did it, of course, and it was a little surprising...
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new and limited
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I am new to this, my cell phone does not support the chat. I can't make it to NA meetings due to transportation and location. I need to be able to talk to somebody daily. I am in intensive outpatient, been inpatient once. I'm almost 24. I realize without meetings it is almost impossible for me to stay clean...
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general question about outpatient
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so in outpatient (not intensive) if you have to pay copay for your individual sessions, do you have to pay copay for group too? i have my first group session on monday. then i have another individual on wednesday. i kno all places are diff...
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