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JFT September 29 Just for today
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When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably.Basic Text, p. 99=Just for todayits a comforting thought. If we try to live in the past, we may find ourselves torn by painful, disquieting memories. The lessons of our using are not the teachers we seek for recov...
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JFT September 28 Hope
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Gradually, as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope.Basic Text, p. 95=As using addicts, despair was our relentless companion. It colored our every waking moment. Despair was born of our experience in active addiction: No matter what measures we tried to...
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One More Day
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I found this meditation book that is for people who have chronic Illnesses. I am not saying that I will post them everyday here but I would like to share. If this needs put into another section that is OK Just didn't know where to put it. One More Day September 28, 2011 Quote:A positive, responsible perso...
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How life events have evolved over the years!
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Blessings of this day! This Sunday, going to have a couple Venison roasts and some steaks ,the last of my take from last season as Bow season(Deer Hunting) begins here in a couple weeks in Upstate New York! Having some recovering addicts and some sponsees over for good clean fun and fellowship, do som...
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Good Mornin NA Family! Just thought I'd give a little update as to my thoughts and actions recently. Woke up Sunday Mornin cravin drugs and in a foul mood. Needless to say my anxiety and irritablility sky rocketed. Unfortunately, my husband was the recipent of all my unbridled fury. This led to guilt a...
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JFT September 27 Right back up
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There is something in our self-destructive personalities that cries for failure.Basic Text, p. 80=Poor me; woe is me; look at me, my life is such a mess! Ive fallen, and no matter how hard I try, I continue to fail. Many of us came to NA singing this sad refrain.Life isnt like that anymore. True, so...
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JFT September 26 Seeing ourselves in others
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It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another.Basic Text, p. 38=How easy it is to point out the faults of others! Theres a reason for this: The defects we identify most easily in others are often the defects we are most familiar with in our own characters. We may notice our best fri...
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JFT September 25 The fourth step--fearing our feelings
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September 25The Fourth Stepfearing our feelingsWe may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic.Basic Text, p. 30=A common complaint about the Fourth Step is that it makes us painfully conscious of our defects of character. We may be t...
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JFT September 24 A growing concept of God
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The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves. We dont have to be religious to accept this idea. The point is that we open our minds to believe.Basic Text, p. 24=In a lifelong process of coming to believe, our understanding of God will change. Th...
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first anniversary jitters
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hello my NA family first of all, I'm glad you're here. I'll go to a meeting soon but I need to dump this now, on my way to work. a year ago yesterday I was at my bottom. I'm grateful for it; it woke me up to the insanity of my life I'd been pretending to live for decades. yesterday was hard -- I was irritable all...
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Blame & Personal Responsibilty
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I am not an addict but an addict's soon-to-be-ex wife. My husband of almost 5 yrs and father of our three children, admitted to using again and is trying to place blame on me. He claims that his support system "vanished", that I deleted all of his contact numbers out of his cell phone (he got a n...
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I don't know what else to do. my life, my world is crumbling around me. and theres nothing i can do about it. The love of my life is breaking my heart, stabbing my soul, and driving me to extinction. theres is nothing left for me to do. im done trying. he moved 300 miles away. he said hes too busy. he said he can...
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What is UP with this?!
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The last few days, maybe moreso the last week, I've been going crazy! Maybe it's just stress from work, plus taking 2 online classes... but maybe it's the weather. It's starting to change seasons around here and I've barely gotten 2 dozen tomatoes out of my garden. Kinda depressing, especially wh...
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How are you?
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I truly view the people who regularly visit this site as a family. If you haven't posted in a while know that you are missed so, How are you Manon, MeditationMan, sstaceye69, drugfree, rocky, LeeU, tahir, JoeB, jcd, Nikky, Anthony G, CooncatBob, Viablex, Tisa2u, Brandi65, freedomdove, peachz, Van...
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Narcotics Anonymous has shown me a new way to live
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Good morning and blessings of this day! As speaker last night at a new meeting in Beacon New York ,about 25 miles from where I live,I was able to share my ESH and how by the guidance of the God of my understanding, the understanding and application of our solution, the steps(worked with a sponsor)I am ab...
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JFT September 23 Dealing with gossip
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September 23Dealing with gossipIn accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other.Basic Text, p. 11=Lets face it: In Narcotics Anonymous, we live in a glass house of sorts. Our fellow members know more about our personal lives than anyone...
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JFT September 22 Keeping the gift
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Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift.Basic Text, p. 107=Neglecting our recovery is like neglecting any other gift weve been given. Suppose someone gave you a new car. Would you let it sit in the driveway until the tires rotted? Would you just drive it, ignoring routine m...
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Honesty through Anonymity
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I need to be honest with someone. I was working on a project at work that's really out of my field of expertise. There are parts I do really well, and there are parts where I am totally clueless. Honestly, it intimidates the hell out of me. So I put it off. Now it's past due. I've already given every exc...
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JFT September 21 Prayer
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Prayer takes practice, and we should remind ourselves that skilled people were not born with their skills.Basic Text, p. 46=Many of us came into recovery with no experience in prayer and worried about not knowing the right words. Some of us remembered the words wed learned in childhood but weren...
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Attended my first NA meeting!
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Hi all, Justed wanted to let you know I attended my first NA meeting tonite. The whole way driving there I was having to fight the urge to call one of my dealers to get pot and just zone out. It was an inner struggle for sure but in the end I went to the meeting and I am so glad I did. I met two ladies whom have been s...
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JFT September 20 Courage to change
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Serenity Prayer=Recovery involves change, and change means doing things differently. The problem is, many of us resist doing things differently; what w...
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sounds like life to me
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well last night i was rushed to the ER. I had 3 seizures in an hour. they ran some tests and said the results should be back soon. im kind of scared. i already have a ton of health issues. what if this one is death? ha i wasnt afraid of death when i tried to kill myself multiple times but why am i scared now? i feel...
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is it possible to get a sponsor on this forum?
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When things go wrong,, you make me strong !
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A song composed and there's my sax solo on it.....
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hi new to this forum
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JFT September 18 Honest relationships
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One of the most profound changes in our lives is in the realm of personal relationships.Basic Text, p. 57=Recovery gives many of us relationships that are closer and more intimate than any weve had before. As time passes, we find ourselves gravitating toward those who eventually become our frie...
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Emotions
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Physically, I am beginning to feel better but emotionally I seem to be a wreck. I'm sure the lack of sleep contributes to my emotions as does the lack of opiates...its very hard to take on all these feelings when I am so used to being numb. My marriage is in trouble, finances are in trouble, very few friend...
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ABCD Convention
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Morning and blessings of this day! Today we will be putting on a fundraiser for our Albany,New York Area (ABCD) Convention.... A .SPEAKER JAM FROM 1;oo pm until 7;oo pm with speakers coming from thr u out the Tri-State Area.I will be selling tickets for food and drink and we will have a dance at 7;00 (...
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JFT September 17 Going beyond step five
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We may think that we have done enough by writing about our past. We cannot afford this mistake.Basic Text, p. 32=Some of us arent too keen on writing out our Fourth Step; others take it to an obsessive extreme. To our sponsors growing dismay, we inventory ourselves again and again. We discover ev...
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