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having a rough time
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i just had my whole family walk out on me during mother's day. yes that day is hard on me and the rest of my family and they found out that i had the same cancer my mother dead with. so i got emotional upset and they told me that i was bipolar and need to start taking meds ok so i started taking the meds and been up f...
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jcd aka jayson cole
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Need some advice...
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So prepare, this is gonna be a long one. I'm in a court program to get one of my children back. I opted in to the program right out of detox, before I found NA. Since I've found NA and have been given the tools and the gift of a higher power that I have true unreserved faith in and have accepted his will for me, I h...
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SeanK_VancouverWA
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JFT May 15 Fear of the fourth step
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"As we approach this step, most of us are afraid that there is a monster inside of us that, if released, will destroy us." Basic Text, p. 27 Most of us are terrified to look at ourselves, to probe our insides. We're afraid that if we examine our actions and motives, we'll find a bottomless blac...
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Dave R
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Do I belong here? Newbie....
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Hi everyone...I'm new here, and not even sure if I should be here... For the past two years, due to many health issues, I have been on many medications. The past six months being the worst. I was hospitalized several weeks ago and after being off hydrocodone for a short bit, was back on it, the problem bei...
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holdingon
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Clean Time Ceremony Catchy Phrases
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Hey guys I'm from a small area and I always love when someone comes from out of town to do the clean time ceremony to hear some good catchy phrases, just wonder if you would care to share any. Thanks This seems to be about the standard in my area: white- int color of surrender orange - orange you glad your he...
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ryanlitwiller
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JFT May 17 "Defects"
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May 17"Defects"We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.Step Six=After taking the Fifth Step, many of us spend some time considering the exact nature of our wrongs and the part theyd played in making us who we were. What would our lives be like without, say...
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Dave R
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A real good look at love in action!!
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My wifes family up from Florida ,staying with us for 3 days.Truly a blessing to see my wife alive with joy and busying herself with selfless service to her sister and neice ,cooking and baking and just sharing her love.Today I will continue to listen for my Higher Powers direction,take joy in the small...
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Hi to all.........am a newbie (pls be gentle, lol!)
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I happened upon this site looking for ways to help me/myself. It's taken a LONG time to really admit to myself that I'm addicted to (legal) Rx's. I had done SOOOO well and been really sober for almost 2.5 yrs. Then in Dec '10 I fell and broke my ankle in 3 major places, had reconstructive surgery w/8 scr...
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candycane13
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JFT May 16 Our higher power's will
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Gods will for us becomes our own true will for ourselves.Basic Text, p. 48=The Twelve Steps are a path to spiritual awakening. This awakening takes the form of a developing relationship with a loving Higher Power. Each succeeding step strengthens that relationship. As we continue to work the...
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Dave R
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Hard To Let Go - Hurt : (
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Hi Everyone, this month I made 14 months clean. I got back with my ex-husband (getting high partner) believing he had changed only to get slap in the face. He continues to relapse on a regular. He goes in and out of Day Top so he will not violate his parole. I left him a couple of days ago and finally told hi...
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angriv
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GLUB GLUB
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WOW SURROUNDED BY WATER FROM TWO RIVERS/Not looking so good down here near Vicksburg,Ms
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GARY
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Being new Day 2
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My name is Rick and I am an addict. My drug of choice is meth which I have been injecting almost daily for 10 years. It has destroyed my life. Even though I am grateful the situation is not worse, if you compare my life the day before I used meth for the first time to today, the difference is shocking. I don'...
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rick2day
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JFT May Oops!
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Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.Basic Text, p. 23=Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guiltat the very least, with frustration and impatien...
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Dave R
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Pregnancy and Opiod use
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My 22 year old daughter got out of a treatment center in April, had 90 days sober and slipped, much more than once in the past month or so. Now she tells me she is pregnant and I am terrified for her. Does anyone have any experience with this topic? I know her baby can be born with birth defects, and aside fro...
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JFT May 13 Onward on the journey
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The progression of recovery is a continuous uphill journey.Basic Text, p. 83=The longer we stay clean, the steeper and narrower our path seems to become. But God doesn't give us more than we can handle. No matter how difficult the road becomes, no matter how narrow, how winding the turns, there i...
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Dave R
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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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I have been really depresed lately despondent left out and lonely...but there is good news to we found a 2 bedroom apt for us to live it i am excited bout that just thought Iwould check in and to my really good friends (LIZ) I am isolating alot atm I hope every one is ok and that this finds you blessed
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Manon
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4 years!
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So this week we are celebrating 4 years clean. The gifts bestowed upon me through this program, by my higher power, are beyond my greatest expectations. Thanks NA!!
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Davethewave
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JFT May 12 Living with spiritual experiences
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For meditation to be of value, the results must show in our daily lives.Basic Text, p. 47=In working our program, we are given many indirect indications of a Higher Powers presence in our lives: the clean feeling that comes to so many of us in taking our Fifth Step; the sense that we are finally on the r...
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Dave R
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So much anxiety... a troubled year
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Over a month ago I was sent to rehab and learned a lot about the disease of addiction, what I considered just letting loose and rewarding myself for years of success and forward progress in life had all caught up to me. I met many individuals like myself, similar lives, stories, experiences, yet still f...
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jayburn84
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JFT May 11 Balancing the scales
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A lot of our chief concerns and major difficulties come from our inexperience with living without drugs. Often when we ask an oldtimer what to do, we are amazed at the simplicity of the answer.Basic Text, p. 43=Finding balance in recovery is quite a bit like sitting down with a set of scales and a pil...
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Dave R
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recovery and treatment for hepatitis C
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Hey, Can anyone share experiance how affects treatment for hepatitis C physical health and staying clean?As I heard it`s very difficult treatment specially for addicts?How to get by that period?Is there any recomendations? I`m at this monent clean year and 8 days, and must say that it`s one of the...
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JFT May 10 Becoming entirely ready
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We... get a good look at what these defects are doing to our lives. We begin to long for freedom from these defects.Basic Text, p. 34=Becoming entirely ready to have our defects of character removed can be a long process, often taking place over the course of a lifetime. Our state of readiness grow...
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Dave R
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If you're in recovery and have a dog, please check this out!!
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Hey everyone --- Im trying to get some help from my fellow recovering friends. Im looking for people in recovery who own a dog to complete a brief survey on how their dogs have influenced their recoveries. It only takes a few minutes and I would REALLY appreciate your help.Also if you know anyone in reco...
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What is your purpose in Life?
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a recent post made me think about this. So, what is your purpose in life?
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Romantic relationship s
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I met a girl a so called normal girl, that s not in program Chated on the phone with her shared a good part of my storey with her met her for Tea shared more it went well realy well,I ve been c lean coming up on five year s I ve been out a relation ship for almost ten month s .Any way know she want s to know more abo...
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JFT May 9 Write about it!
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May 9Write about it!"We sit down with a notebook, ask for guidance, pick up our pen, and start writing."Basic Text, p. 30=When we're confused or in pain, our sponsor sometimes tells us to "write about it." Though we may groan as we drag out the notebook, we know that it will help...
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Dave R
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JFT May 8 Teachable
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We have learned that it is okay to not know all the answers, for then we are teachable and can learn to live our new life successfully.Basic Text, p. 96=In a way, addiction is a great teacher. And if addiction teaches us nothing else, it will teach us humility. We hear it said that it took our very best...
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Dave R
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Is it possible to help a cocaine addict?
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She's young and beautiful, but hooked. I'm not related but concerned and compassionate.
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Step 4
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Alright, i'm new to this message chat thing for NA so bare with me. My sponser told me that before I start writing on step 4, read read read the literature and talk to other people and see what advice they have on step 4....so here I am please fellow recovering addicts, share with me your wisdom
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HollyBJolly814
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Hi all.
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Hi folks,, sorry I havent been sharin recently, though I was regular viewer... I did try and upload pics of my visit to the Regional Conference in March Maybe this site is not allowing uploads of pics any more..but couldnt. Im a believer in letting facts and figures speak for themselves and what bette...
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Raman
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