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Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

MIKEF · MIKEF

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

DavidS · DavidS

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

LizC · LizC

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Manon · Manon

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

MIKEF · MIKEF

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...

Fiesty · Fiesty

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...

Raman · Raman

Please read this; it is the latest in NA literature, pending approval in WSC upcoming.

Dave R · Dave R

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...

sheismistaken · sheismistaken

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...

Bernard · Bernard

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

Dave R · Dave R

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...

MIKEF · MIKEF

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...

LizC · LizC

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)

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

lelecoramos · lelecoramos

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...

Rhivenn · Rhivenn

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...

om1973 · om1973

Just cant seem to stop, have stayed sober for months but soon as I am around pills I just want to take them

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

If we are hurting, and most of us do from time to time, we learn to ask for help.Basic Text, p. 83=Sometimes recovery gets downright difficult. It can be even more difficult to get humble enough to ask for help. We think, I have all this time clean. I should be better than this! But the reality of rec...

Dave R · Dave R

We were trapped by our need for the instant gratification that drugs gave us.Basic Text, p. 25=I want what I want, and I want it now! Thats about as patient as most of us ever got in our active addiction. The obsession and compulsion of our disease gave us a one-track way of thinking; when we wanted so...

avid · avid

Noticing that the board has gotten quiet. Let's share some experience, strength, and hope. I'll start. Last night I heard this said at a meeting "If all your problems can be solved with money then you have no problems" I had to ponder that one a minute. So much of peoples troubles these day...

Dave R · Dave R

We share comfort and encouragement with others.Basic Text, p. 99=Many of us have watched as babies take their first steps. The mother holds the child on its feet. The father kneels nearby with outstretched arms, encouraging the little one, his face flooded with devotion. The baby takes a few s...

Dave R · Dave R

That old nest of negativism followed me everywhere I went.Basic Text, p. 137=A negative attitude is the trademark of active addiction. Everything that occurred in our lives was someone or something elses fault. We had blaming others for our shortcomings down to a fine science. In recovery, o...

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	JFT July 22 Spiritual death (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	558	Jul 24, 2011 by viablex1
	JFT July 24 The masks have to go (Preview) 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...	Dave R	2	465	Jul 24, 2011 by Dritter220
	Wasn't always like this! (Preview) 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...	MIKEF	1	517	Jul 23, 2011 by Raman
	JFT July 23 Surrendering self-will (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	407	Jul 23, 2011 by Dave R
	Im writing my autobiography recovery books autobiography NA addiction (Preview) 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...	DavidS	1	6016	Jul 22, 2011 by Raman
	JFT July 21 Surrender is for everyone (Preview) 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...	Dave R	3	620	Jul 21, 2011 by MIKEF
	its raining (Preview) 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...	LizC	14	700	Jul 21, 2011 by MIKEF
	JFT July 19 Fulfilling our dreams (Preview) 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...	Dave R	3	580	Jul 20, 2011 by avid
	JFT July 20 Step One (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	467	Jul 20, 2011 by Dave R
	a quick update (Preview) 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	Manon	4	541	Jul 19, 2011 by cdbuckberry
	Left it there(long time ago) (Preview) 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...	MIKEF	3	492	Jul 19, 2011 by Fiesty
	CARRYING A CLEAR NA MESSAGE...IT'S IMPORTANT (Preview) 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...	Fiesty	5	1014	Jul 18, 2011 by deana66
	"Living Clean" draft. (Preview) Please read this; it is the latest in NA literature, pending approval in WSC upcoming.	Raman	2	1156	Jul 18, 2011 by Raman
	JFT July 18 The gift of desperation (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	495	Jul 18, 2011 by Dave R
	New to the forum (Preview) 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...	sheismistaken	8	663	Jul 17, 2011 by avid
	Thanks to Milkman (Preview) 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	Bernard	2	727	Jul 17, 2011 by Raman
	JFT July 17 Using our using dreams (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	540	Jul 17, 2011 by Dave R
	LEAVE YOUR MONKEY IN THE WOODS (Preview) 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...	MIKEF	2	1950	Jul 16, 2011 by BigV
	rough patch (Preview) 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)	LizC	5	487	Jul 16, 2011 by avid
	JFT July 16 Self-esteem (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	530	Jul 16, 2011 by Dave R
	JFT July 15 Relations with others (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	520	Jul 15, 2011 by Dave R
	Just sharing a little difficulty (Preview) 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...	lelecoramos	4	682	Jul 15, 2011 by Raman
	Sponsor question. (Preview) 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...	Rhivenn	6	760	Jul 14, 2011 by Fiesty
	New (Preview) Just cant seem to stop, have stayed sober for months but soon as I am around pills I just want to take them	om1973	5	523	Jul 14, 2011 by Fiesty
	JFT July 14 An inside job (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	550	Jul 14, 2011 by Dave R
	JFT July 13 Humility in action (Preview) If we are hurting, and most of us do from time to time, we learn to ask for help.Basic Text, p. 83=Sometimes recovery gets downright difficult. It can be even more difficult to get humble enough to ask for help. We think, I have all this time clean. I should be better than this! But the reality of rec...	Dave R	1	576	Jul 13, 2011 by MIKEF
	JFT July 12 Patience (Preview) We were trapped by our need for the instant gratification that drugs gave us.Basic Text, p. 25=I want what I want, and I want it now! Thats about as patient as most of us ever got in our active addiction. The obsession and compulsion of our disease gave us a one-track way of thinking; when we wanted so...	Dave R	0	476	Jul 12, 2011 by Dave R
	Quiet here lately. (Preview) Noticing that the board has gotten quiet. Let's share some experience, strength, and hope. I'll start. Last night I heard this said at a meeting "If all your problems can be solved with money then you have no problems" I had to ponder that one a minute. So much of peoples troubles these day...	avid	4	520	Jul 11, 2011 by Fiesty
	JFT July 11 Encouragement (Preview) We share comfort and encouragement with others.Basic Text, p. 99=Many of us have watched as babies take their first steps. The mother holds the child on its feet. The father kneels nearby with outstretched arms, encouraging the little one, his face flooded with devotion. The baby takes a few s...	Dave R	0	442	Jul 11, 2011 by Dave R
	JFT July 10 A positive attitude (Preview) That old nest of negativism followed me everywhere I went.Basic Text, p. 137=A negative attitude is the trademark of active addiction. Everything that occurred in our lives was someone or something elses fault. We had blaming others for our shortcomings down to a fine science. In recovery, o...	Dave R	0	547	Jul 10, 2011 by Dave R
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