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Dave R · Dave R

We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing.Basic Text, p. 98=Active addiction kept us isolated for many reasons. In the beginning, we avoided family and friends so they wouldnt find out we were using. Some of us avoided all nonaddicts, fearing moral back...

Brandi65 · Brandi65

Keep the lesson but throw away the experience. Sometimes when I go through a situation..I will replay everyones part over and over in my head without looking at mine. Then I remember to learn the lesson of the experience I have to look at myself and my part... YIKES! =)

avid · avid

Heard any good ones lately?

Cyrodiil · Cyrodiil

I've been going to meetings and I'm really struggling with this whole higher power thing. I like everything about this program, but this is the one thing I can't seem to swallow. For the time being I've made NA my higher power, and people have told me that it's fine, but I'm already seeing problems with t...

holdingon · holdingon

Thank all of you who responded to my first post....I haven't been back til now due to health issues. My drug of choice is Hydrocodone, but I realized yesterday....I'll take anything to forget sometimes. I was sweeping my floors the other day and found a little pink pill in the dustpan....Having no id...

goose · goose

opiate user off and on 20 years.46yr old male.Have about as much will power as any human I know.But for the life of me nothing has tested my survival ,or will to survive like opiates.Never have done the things associated with addiction,Stealing,missing work,ect,.Been shot,stabbed,have artifici...

MIKEF · MIKEF

For today I know I will come across someone who could use a sincere word of appreciation or just the need to be "lifted up".I do have it in my power to increase happiness in the area I am in ,so I will share a kind word to those who are discouraged and lonely. The joy I will be given will be the knowle...

Dave R · Dave R

We review our past performance and our present behavior to see what we want to keep and what we want to discard.Basic Text, p. 29=As each day winds to a close, many of us reflect on the past twenty-four hours and consider how we can live differently in the future. Its easy for our thoughts to remain tra...

LizC · LizC

hey all. i havent been on for quite some time. ive been isolating a lot. today i have yet to get out of bed. still in it. i havent been this depressed in a while. my boyfriend is mad at me (wouldnt you know its about drugs) so ive been sleeping and crying and crying myself to sleep. whats the point in getting up...

Brandi65 · Brandi65

I woke up from a dream this morning in tears..literally. The dream was of my son, who is now 27 and an addict, but in my dream he was 5ish or so, he had broken his arm and he was sitting on my lap in the car as we were on our way to the hospital. I just held him and began to cry, unsure of whether he knew how muc...

Dave R · Dave R

We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.Step Nine=In every relationship, we dont always handle things the way we would have hoped. But friendships dont have to end when we make mistakes; instead, we can make amends. If we are sincer...

jcd aka jayson cole · jcd aka jayson cole

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...

SeanK_VancouverWA · SeanK_VancouverWA

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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

holdingon · holdingon

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...

ryanlitwiller · ryanlitwiller

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

MIKEF · MIKEF

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...

candycane13 · candycane13

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

angriv · angriv

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...

GARY · GARY

WOW SURROUNDED BY WATER FROM TWO RIVERS/Not looking so good down here near Vicksburg,Ms

rick2day · rick2day

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'...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

DVDME · DVDME

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Manon · Manon

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

Davethewave · Davethewave

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!!

Dave R · Dave R

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...

jayburn84 · jayburn84

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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	JFT May 20 Coming out of isolation (Preview) We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing.Basic Text, p. 98=Active addiction kept us isolated for many reasons. In the beginning, we avoided family and friends so they wouldnt find out we were using. Some of us avoided all nonaddicts, fearing moral back...	Dave R	2	1480	May 20, 2011 by Dave R
	WISDOM OF THE ROOMS =) (Preview) Keep the lesson but throw away the experience. Sometimes when I go through a situation..I will replay everyones part over and over in my head without looking at mine. Then I remember to learn the lesson of the experience I have to look at myself and my part... YIKES! =)	Brandi65	2	1422	May 20, 2011 by avid
	Hey Manon (Preview) Heard any good ones lately?	avid	2	1400	May 20, 2011 by Manon
	REALLY need help with the higher power thing (Preview) I've been going to meetings and I'm really struggling with this whole higher power thing. I like everything about this program, but this is the one thing I can't seem to swallow. For the time being I've made NA my higher power, and people have told me that it's fine, but I'm already seeing problems with t...	Cyrodiil	8	2078	May 19, 2011 by bionic
	Alanoner struggling with RX drug addiction (Preview) Thank all of you who responded to my first post....I haven't been back til now due to health issues. My drug of choice is Hydrocodone, but I realized yesterday....I'll take anything to forget sometimes. I was sweeping my floors the other day and found a little pink pill in the dustpan....Having no id...	holdingon	6	1494	May 19, 2011 by goose
	New guy (Preview) opiate user off and on 20 years.46yr old male.Have about as much will power as any human I know.But for the life of me nothing has tested my survival ,or will to survive like opiates.Never have done the things associated with addiction,Stealing,missing work,ect,.Been shot,stabbed,have artifici...	goose	18	2710	May 19, 2011 by goose
	Store up good things inside! (Preview) For today I know I will come across someone who could use a sincere word of appreciation or just the need to be "lifted up".I do have it in my power to increase happiness in the area I am in ,so I will share a kind word to those who are discouraged and lonely. The joy I will be given will be the knowle...	MIKEF	1	1418	May 19, 2011 by avid
	JFT May 19 A growth inventory (Preview) We review our past performance and our present behavior to see what we want to keep and what we want to discard.Basic Text, p. 29=As each day winds to a close, many of us reflect on the past twenty-four hours and consider how we can live differently in the future. Its easy for our thoughts to remain tra...	Dave R	1	958	May 19, 2011 by Ruthy
	oh its just me (Preview) hey all. i havent been on for quite some time. ive been isolating a lot. today i have yet to get out of bed. still in it. i havent been this depressed in a while. my boyfriend is mad at me (wouldnt you know its about drugs) so ive been sleeping and crying and crying myself to sleep. whats the point in getting up...	LizC	7	1550	May 18, 2011 by Dave R
	The Onion (Preview) I woke up from a dream this morning in tears..literally. The dream was of my son, who is now 27 and an addict, but in my dream he was 5ish or so, he had broken his arm and he was sitting on my lap in the car as we were on our way to the hospital. I just held him and began to cry, unsure of whether he knew how muc...	Brandi65	9	1347	May 18, 2011 by Brandi65
	JFT May 18 Friends and amends--keeping it simple (Preview) We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.Step Nine=In every relationship, we dont always handle things the way we would have hoped. But friendships dont have to end when we make mistakes; instead, we can make amends. If we are sincer...	Dave R	0	1342	May 18, 2011 by Dave R
	having a rough time (Preview) 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...	jcd aka jayson cole	2	1357	May 17, 2011 by LizC
	Need some advice... (Preview) 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...	SeanK_VancouverWA	10	1133	May 17, 2011 by BigBob
	JFT May 15 Fear of the fourth step (Preview) "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...	Dave R	2	1439	May 17, 2011 by BigBob
	Do I belong here? Newbie.... (Preview) 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...	holdingon	5	1862	May 17, 2011 by BigBob
	Clean Time Ceremony Catchy Phrases (Preview) 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...	ryanlitwiller	3	9145	May 17, 2011 by ryanlitwiller
	JFT May 17 "Defects" (Preview) 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...	Dave R	2	1261	May 17, 2011 by MIKEF
	A real good look at love in action!! (Preview) 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...	MIKEF	0	1069	May 17, 2011 by MIKEF
	Hi to all.........am a newbie (pls be gentle, lol!) (Preview) 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...	candycane13	5	1146	May 17, 2011 by ElaineC
	JFT May 16 Our higher power's will (Preview) 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...	Dave R	2	1405	May 16, 2011 by avid
	Hard To Let Go - Hurt : ( (Preview) 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...	angriv	6	1544	May 15, 2011 by angriv
	GLUB GLUB (Preview) WOW SURROUNDED BY WATER FROM TWO RIVERS/Not looking so good down here near Vicksburg,Ms	GARY	3	1391	May 15, 2011 by MIKEF
	Being new Day 2 (Preview) 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'...	rick2day	4	1260	May 14, 2011 by avid
	JFT May Oops! (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	1340	May 14, 2011 by Dave R
	Pregnancy and Opiod use (Preview) 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...	DVDME	5	1402	May 13, 2011 by DVDME
	JFT May 13 Onward on the journey (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	1177	May 13, 2011 by Dave R
	Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr (Preview) 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	Manon	4	1279	May 12, 2011 by cdbuckberry
	4 years! (Preview) 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!!	Davethewave	6	1159	May 12, 2011 by Davethewave
	JFT May 12 Living with spiritual experiences (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	1399	May 12, 2011 by Dave R
	So much anxiety... a troubled year (Preview) 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...	jayburn84	5	1407	May 11, 2011 by Dave R
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