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JFT July 26 Unconditional surrender
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Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat. This can be frightening, but it is the foundation on which we have built our lives.Basic Text, p. 22=Most of us have tried everything we can think of, exerted every ounce of force possible, to fill the spiritual hole inside us. ...
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The disease takes another!!
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AMY WINEHOUSE R.I.P.........It doesn't have to be like this, No addict need ever die from the horrors of addiction.That is the promise of Narcotics Anonymous, our message is hope and the promise of freedom from active addiction. i'm out.................
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need advice on service work
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im gonna try to give a quick background and sum up my question: ive got 15 months clean, ive been a gsr fer my home group fer about 4 months, and i helped my sponsor and a few others start up a new meeting in out area which i am secretary for... i have an intense passion for trying to help others, especially oth...
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JFT July 25 Twelfth step failure?
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Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.Step Twelve=There is no such thing as a failed Twelfth Step call. Even if our prospect doesnt get clean, we have accomplished two purposes. W...
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whats up with the spam posts?
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First time I have seen those on here.
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JFT July 22 Spiritual death
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For us, to use is to die, often in more ways than one.Basic Text, p. 82=As newcomers, many of us came to our first meeting with only a small spark of life remaining. That spark, our spirit, wants to survive. Narcotics Anonymous nurtures that spirit. The love of the fellowship quickly fans that spa...
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JFT July 24 The masks have to go
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July 24The masks have to go...we covered low self-esteem by hiding behind phony images that we hoped would fool people. The masks have to go.Basic Text, p. 33=Over-sensitivity, insecurity, and lack of identity are often associated with active addiction. Many of us carry these with us into recove...
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Wasn't always like this!
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Blessing of another day! Saturday morning, lucid, aware and having put on "my armor of God, ready to "live" another day. It was not always like this for this addict. There were many Saturdays I missed ,being caught in the grip of our terrible disease and being sick, unconscious or ju...
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JFT July 23 Surrendering self-will
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July 23Surrendering self-willWe want and demand that things always go our way. We should know from our past experience that our way of doing things did not work.Basic Text, p. 93=All of us have ideas, plans, goals for our lives. Theres nothing in the NA program that says we shouldnt think for oursel...
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Im writing my autobiography
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First, this is not spam. My name is David S and I have been in recovery for the last 13 years.Having cerebral palsy, dealing with drug addiction, living through two open-heart surgeries and my own death, I have decided to take a leap of faith and write my autobiography.Please check out my video at the l...
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JFT July 21 Surrender is for everyone
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If, after a period of time, we find ourselves in trouble with our recovery, we have probably stopped doing one or more of the things that helped us in the earlier stages of our recovery.Basic Text, p. 95=Surrender is just for newcomers, right? Wrong!After weve been around awhile, some of us succum...
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its raining
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will i ever be happy? this constant depression is killing me inside and out. i am out of the hospital but i feel like i could live in a hole where no one knew where i was and curl up and die. the love of my life is moving 300 miles away, and that is just not helping the situation at all. i have been in my room laying...
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JFT July 19 Fulfilling our dreams
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Dreams that we gave up long ago can now become realities.Basic Text, p. 71=All things begin with a dream. But how many of us fulfilled our dreams while using? Even if we managed to complete something we had started, our addiction usually robbed us of any pride in our accomplishment. Perhaps when...
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JFT July 20 Step One
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We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.Step One=The First Step begins with we, and theres a reason for that. There is great strength in making a verbal admission of our powerlessness. And when we go to meetings and make this admission, we ga...
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a quick update
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i have moved into my new place can't say if i l ike it yet or not finacially with no more room mate is a bit of an issue but bright side dramas gone i am as ok as i can be for the moment going thru some med changes but thought i owuld let ppl know i am still here
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Left it there(long time ago)
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Yes the 'MONKEY' was left in the woods.A beautiful turnout ,wonderful mesages of hope and fredom from active drug addiction throughout the day. Food, fun and fellowship,a brightening of the spirit and an opportunity to get to know people you see all around sharing but not really getting to know a lit...
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CARRYING A CLEAR NA MESSAGE...IT'S IMPORTANT
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HELLO ALL - I WANT TO STAY ACTIVE AND CARRYING A CLEAR NA MESSAGE ON THIS BOARD..HERE TO REMIND AND HOPEFULLY BRING TRUTH.."WE DO RECOVER"..IT IS SO TRUE..ONE DAY AT A TIME...WE CAN ONLY STAY CLEAN ON A DAILY BASIS..IN THE BEGINNING THAT DID NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME..I THOUGHT ONLY IN TERMS OF NOT...
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"Living Clean" draft.
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Please read this; it is the latest in NA literature, pending approval in WSC upcoming.
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JFT July 18 The gift of desperation
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Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until, in desperation, we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous.Basic Text, p. 13=When we think of being desperate, we envision an undesirable state: a poor, bedraggled soul frantically clawing at something sorely needed, a...
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New to the forum
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Hi everyone. My name is Dani. I'm 26 and I live in Georgia. I am a recovering heroin addict. I have not used heroin since October 15, 2010. As of today I have 9 months clean. There is only one NA meeting in my hometown...and it really isn't a very good one. The first and only time I went, I was approached by two...
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Thanks to Milkman
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You have been so helpful with the "Just for Today" postings because I don't own a book and where I live it is not easy to access. I want to thank you and tell you "God bless you". With much thanks, Bernard
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JFT July 17 Using our using dreams
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Do we fully accept the fact that our every attempt to stop using or to control our using failed?Basic Text, p. 19=The room is dark. Your forehead is bathed in cold sweat. Your heart is racing. You open your eyes, sure that youve just blown your clean time. Youve had a using dream, and it was just lik...
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LEAVE YOUR MONKEY IN THE WOODS
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Tomorrow from 10:00 A.M. UNTIL 12:00 P.M our ASC,.area service committee of MID HUDSON VALLEY, is putting on the 5th ANNUAL 'LEAVE YOUR MONKEY IN THE WOODS FESTIVAL"in upstate Kingston New York.We have sold approx 150 tickets and expecting turnout of about 350 addicts(families and friends...
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rough patch
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Hello Friends, Just wanted to let you know im going through a rough patch which is why i have not been on. please pray for me. and thanks for all the support you always show me. this too shall pass (eventually)
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JFT July 16 Self-esteem
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Deep inside, I had feelings of inadequacy and inferiority.=Somewhere along the way, many of us developed strong feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. Deep inside was a voice that continually cried out, Youre worthless! Many of us learn to recognize this characteristic of low self-esteem...
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JFT July 15 Relations with others
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We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.Step Eight=All human beings struggle with self-centeredness. The chronic self-centeredness that lies at the very core of addiction makes that struggle doubly difficult for people like us. Many of us have l...
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Just sharing a little difficulty
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Hi dear NA partners and friends, First of all I am Brazilian, so sorry if I make some language mistakes, ok? Well, I have been going through some very deep emotional crisis. I am back on NA for almost 6 months after I got aware I was going to be a father. My ex and I broke up, after some sad happenings she went t...
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Sponsor question.
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I am frustrated with the process of finding the right sponsor. I just picked up my 60 day chip (I go to an open AA group, with alot of other addicts) and I've already resigned from my first sponsor. I didn't' get what others seem to get from the relationship: she didn't call, I had trouble making myself cal...
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Just cant seem to stop, have stayed sober for months but soon as I am around pills I just want to take them
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JFT July 14 An inside job
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Social acceptability does not equal recovery.Basic Text, p. 22=One of the first things that happens to many of us in recovery is that we start to look better. We get healthier; we bathe; we dress more appropriately. And without the goading of active addiction, many of us finally stop stealing, l...
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