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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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JFT November 13 Not perfect
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We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human.Basic Text, p. 31=All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe we imagined perfect ease in our int...
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JFT November 12 Our own story
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When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us.Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. Someday, we may think, Im...
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STILL HERE,JUST LAID BACK!
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mornin and blessings of this day,welcome to all newcomers and those just coming around.Been real busy with band,baby,hunting and life in general.Just got our TV web and wi/fi conections back up from freak october storm.. So I say ,Stay blessed and Just For Today,be all God(of your choosing) intend...
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new to this
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im two days out of a detox program and not feeling great at this point i havent taken a vicodin in 7days and im pretty emotoinal and still exsperinencing some pain and sleeplessness i know i never want to take a vicodin agin in my hole entire life that much i do know for sure this detox aint no joke im up im do...
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oh, the things I've lost in life !
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Forget about when I was using, I did lose a lot. Lots of opportunities, lots of love and lots of money. I can accept that quite easily, and dosent usually come back to haunt me. But the things negative that happened in my recovery, they arise each day to haunt me, taunt me, make me feel un-worthy, wasted e...
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Local Fellowship Size
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Hi, my name is Brooke. I'm new to this site and was actually looking around for a place to get some help outside my local fellowship. I'm just looking for advice or someone to share their story with me. The area where I attend meetings is not a very big community/county so in turn the fellowship is not very...
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JFT November 11 From surrender to acceptance
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We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us.Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatuation....
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JFT November 10 Fear or faith?
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No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us.Basic Text, p. 14=For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situations gave us a convenient excuse t...
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Hello everyone, I got a job after 7 yrs! wanted to share
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Good morning all! Just wanted to share with all what god has done in my life! I have had 3 DUI's and got caught driving on a revoked, i hit a cop car in my own neighborhood and left the scene! I have been to AA, NA, rehab, tons of meetings had a sponsor and I still could not stop the pills, I had not had a...
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JFt November 9 The best-laid plans
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It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power.Basic Text, p. 91=Theres an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: If you want to make God laugh, make plans. When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but theres a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if all of o...
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JFT November 8 Freed from insanity
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Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident?Basic Text, p. 24=Weve heard it said that unless were in love, we cant remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once were freed of it, we may forget how truly bizar...
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JFT November 7 Feelings God's will
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November 7Feeling Gods willI sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what Gods will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful.=The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us isand th...
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how can i do this
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i need help. i cant do this on my own. i am powerless and helpless. i have a half bottle of whiskey at my bedside and trying to hold off the klonipin. 24 hrs and anxiety is building. i found a meeting place and pray i will get the courage to go. i have lost everything but my life and i am clinging to it by a shoe str...
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10th Step Prayer (NA)
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Dear God, show me what I did right and wrong today, show me how I can better live and serve Thy will tommorow. (Follow with 3rd Step Prayer NA) Take my will and my life, Guide me in my recovery, show me how to live !
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JFT November 6 Understanding humility
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Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves.Basic Text, p. 36=Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word humbly ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Perhaps we chose to...
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7th Step Prayer (from another significant Fellowship)
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My Creator, Im now wiiling, that you have all of me, Both the "good" and the "bad". Remove from me, every single defect of character, that stands in the way, of my usefulness to you and to my fellowmen. Grant me the strength, to do your bidding, as I go out from here ! (Amen)..........
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JFT November 5 God's guidance
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November 5Gods guidanceOur Higher Power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of Gods will for us.Basic Text, p. 95=Its not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first ti...
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