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Welcome to another opportunity!
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Good morning and blessings of this day ! Welcome Newcomers and those who may be here for the first time or just coming back!Welcome to those working toward that fit spiritual condition,this daily reprieve working your process to the best of your ability. If you have relapsed,keep in mind that it is im...
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The IMPORTANCE of SHARING YOUR EXPERIECES,STRENGTHES,and HOPES
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When I first came into the rooms,I reaLLy didn't quite get that statement. But as it is written in our BASIC Text 5th Edition pgs xv-xvi is where our predecessors start expressing the purpose of the book and the program. This is a WE program, whether WE go to actual physical meetings or go to an onli...
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Newbie here!
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Hi! A friend of mine referred me to this forum and I have hope that it will help in my recovery. My name is Paula and I am fourty-two years old. I have spent my entire adult years dealing with one addiction or another. In 1996, I was in a severe car wreck which has left me in a great deal of pain. So, I have been on...
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Why Are We Here????
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"Before coming to the Fellowship of N.A., we could not manage our own lives. That's the first sentence in our N.A. literature. Pretty powerful,it was for me. I remember my first meeting, and how it was this very reading that got me crying and thinking;This was me!! I didn't know how to live withou...
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JFT September 16 Emotional balance
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Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our experience bears this out.Basic Text, p.47=Though each of us defines emotional balance a little differently, all of us must find it. Emotional balance can mean finding and maintaining a positive outlook on life, regardless o...
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Question relating to the Higher Power
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Alright, this may sound like a very unorthodox question. But, I've recently (two weeks ago, actually) been released from a treatment center, I did four months inpatient, preceeding to that I was incarcerated for eight months in the Winnebago County Jail. Anyhow, I was wondering, when they say that...
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Announcing: The Skype 24/7 Marathon Meeting!
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Humble athiest seeking sponsor
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Hi, my name is Chris and I'm a 35 year old male addict seeking a sponsor in the Sacramento, Fair Oaks, and Folsom areas. I desperately need a sponsor to begin working the 12 steps and am ready to commit/submit to this process. Please know that I am an atheist, however, I was raised Catholic and I am open...
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JFT September 15 Filling the emptiness
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...we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, well be satisfied and everything will be alright.Basic Text, p. 80=In our addiction, we could never get enough drugs, or money, or sex, or anything else. Even too much was never enough! There was a spiritual emptiness in...
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JFT September 14 Secrets are reservations
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September 14Secrets are reservationsEventually we are shown that we must get honest, or we will use again.Basic Text, p. 85=Everyone has secrets, right? Some of us have little secrets, items that would cause only minor embarrassment if found out. Some of us have big secrets, whole areas of our li...
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JFT September 13 Something different
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We had to have something different, and we thought we had found it in drugs.Basic Text, p. 13=Many of us have always felt different from other people. We know were not unique in feeling that way; we hear many addicts share the same thing. We searched all our lives for something to make us all right, t...
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Heroin/Drug question
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Hi Everyone, My name is Rob and I have been a sober memeber of AA for 27 years (been participating in the MIP AA board for 2 yrs) and am now 51 yrs old. I did plenty of drugs back in the day and got sober with many young people who probably did more drugs than drinking (very few NA meetings back then). I live in...
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this day in history
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i remember this day. i was in 5th grade art. they told us to close the door, turn the lights off, and turn the tv on. i was 10 years old sitting there, staring at the tv with tears streaming down my face as i watched the horror of these buildings collapsing only thinking about all the people inside. my mom cam...
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questions about sober living
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My name is Dan and I am an addict (opiates, alcohol, etc). I have 3 weeks clean and would like to move into sober living by October 1st. I am not in rehab at this time (I cant afford it, but I would go if I could). I did do a 30 day rehab 9 years ago. I have been attending AA meetiongs almost every day. I do n...
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Morning! Blessings of this day
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We arrived safe and sound from Florida late last night(around 2:15 P.M.(PLANE WAS LATE.No specific flooding on roads home to Poughkeepsie ,so that was a blessing.Baby was great on 3 hour flight and slept in my wifes lap all the way.My son in law had to be back to LOWE'S to work at 4:00 a.m so he had a rough n...
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JFT September 12 New horizons
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My life is well-rounded and I am becoming a more comfortable version of myself, not the neurotic, boring person that I thought Id be without drugs. =Is there really life without drugs? Newcomers are sure that they are destined to lead a humdrum existence once they quit using. That fear is far fro...
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JFT September 11 Bend with the wind
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We learn to become flexible... As new things are revealed, we feel renewed.Basic Text, p. 102=Flexibility was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. Wed become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the softer, subtler, more infinitely varied pleasures o...
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Feelings - Feeling And Acknowledging Them
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-- Edited by Meditation Man on Monday 5th of September 2011 08:45:48 PM
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can't complain
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for the first time after doctor dick as my family call him i feel myself again not sure how many days clean i have but i passed my UA at my pain docs with flying colors i am dating once again getting outta the house no longer bound by my fears have plans to go to a concert Friday so thigns are really looing up in m...
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day 1
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today is a new day. i hope i can make it through these withdrawls. prayers please.
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JFT September 10 More powerful than words
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We learn that a simple, loving hug can make all the difference in the world...Basic Text, p. 91=Perhaps there have been times in our recovery when we were close to someone who was in great pain. We struggled with the question, What can I do to make them feel better? We felt anxious and inadequate to r...
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pain medications and the downfalls
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Taking painkillers as well as wife,realized she is hooked after many years clean,mood swings are terrible!i myself with my painmeds is finding difficult to keep disease at bay,try stopping but wake up in incruciaqting pain in my joints!tried non narcotics but they dont work for my situation sadly...
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JFT September 9 Feet of clay
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One of the biggest stumbling blocks to recovery seems to be placing unrealistic expectations on... others.Basic Text, p. 82=Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. By comparison, the recovering addicts we meet at meetings may seem almost superhumanl...
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back
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well after my latest near death experience ive decided to join you once again. hi im liz and im an addict
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JFT September 8 Rebellion
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We need not lose faith when we become rebellious.Basic Text, p. 35=Many of us have lived our entire lives in revolt. Our initial response to any type of direction is often negative. Automatic rejection of authority seems to be a troubling character defect for many addicts.A thorough self-exam...
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Leaving Tomorrow!
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My wife,daughter,son-in law and granddaughter(4 month old Jaelyn Amiyah)spending our last night in a hotel on the Deerfield Beach in Florida .We have been here for 8 days and have been very busy looking at rental apartments for my daughter and her family and opting not to buy a home right now but rent a...
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I have to pass on what my friend Deb shared with me !
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"The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less . We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but l...
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Sorry But I Don't SPAM
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I made a post last time I was here and it got flagged as spam as I am sure I put a URL in a post that Liz started with her still using. It was a URL to what happened to someone here where I live, DEATH! I guess if that is spamming than by all means have it your way.
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JFT September 7 Resentment and forgiveness
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Where there has been wrong, the program teaches us the spirit of forgiveness.Basic Text, p. 12=In NA, we begin to interact with the world around us. We no longer live in isolation. But freedom from isolation has its price: The more we interact with people, the more often well find someone steppi...
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JFT September 6 Regular meeting attendance
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We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean.Basic Text, p. 9=The NA program gives us a new pattern of living. One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance. For the newcomer, living clean is a brand-new ex...
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