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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kinda bummed out
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Last night at the "meeting before the meeting" at our local coffee shop, a friend of mine from out of town stopped in. Boy did he shock the hell out of me. His roommate, who was his "recovery brother," had 8 years clean and decided earlier this month that he was going to start drin...
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JFT May 7 Turning turmoil into peace
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With the world in such a turmoil, I feel I have been blessed to be where I am.Basic Text, p. 145=Some days it doesnt pay to turn on the news, we hear so many stories about violence and mayhem. When we used, many of us grew accustomed to violence. Through the fog of our addiction, we rarely got too distur...
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JFT May 6 Are we having fun yet?
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In time, we can relax and enjoy the atmosphere of recovery.Basic Text, p. 56=Imagine what would happen if a newcomer walked into one of our meetings and was met by a group of grim-faced people gripping the arms of their chairs with white knuckles. That newcomer would probably bolt, perhaps mutter...
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JFT April 9 Acting out
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We learn to experience feelings and realize they can do us no harm unless we act on them.IP No. 16, For the Newcomer=Many of us came to Narcotics Anonymous with something less than an overwhelming desire to stop using. Sure, the drugs were causing us problems, and we wanted to be rid of the problems...
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JFT May 5 Any lengths
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...I was ready to go to any lengths to stay clean.Basic Text, p. 132=Any lengths? newcomers ask. What do you mean, any lengths? Looking back at our active addiction and the lengths we were willing to go to in order to stay high can help to explain. Were we willing to drive many miles to get drugs? Ye...
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REMAINING VIGILANTE!
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Morning! WELCOME TO ANOTHER DAY OF "LIFE" living the NA way. My son (25,on april 25th)returned from a 21 day bid at a rehab center (3rd time there) for a probabtion violation from last year when he picked up again after being placed on 5 years.(not being violated and sent to due his time is a mi...
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JFT May 4 What about the newcomer?
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Each group has but one primary purposeto carry the message to the addict who still suffers.Tradition Five=Our home group means a lot to us. After all, where would we be without our favorite NA meeting? Our group sometimes sponsors picnics or other activities. Often, home group members get tog...
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Its been a bad day
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It has been 5 years 10 months and 20 days since I stopped using heroin. Honestly, the hardest thing I have ever accomplished. Dealing with all the terrible decisions that I made during the time I was using has been a difficult to say the least but now those choices are having an impact on my daughter and th...
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JFT May 3 Sharing our gratitude
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My gratitude speaks when I care and when I share with others the NA way.Gratitude Prayer=The longer we stay clean, the more we experience feelings of gratitude for our recovery. These feelings of gratitude arent limited to particular gifts like new friends or the ability to be employed. More fr...
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Welcomed home by my dogs... (video)
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JFT May 2 Just maybe...
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There is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our recovery; this is an attitude of indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles.Basic Text, p. 18=When we first came to NA, many of us had great difficulty accepting the spiritual principles underlying this programa...
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Not responsible for other peoples feelings..
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Ok..I've been around a few 24 hours and I'm still having a time with this..I understand the concept of that statement, that we are not responsible for how another person feels...but.. (always a but right? =) ....there was a situation in which something was said in a meeting that was very insensitiv...
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JFT May 1 Self-worth and service
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Being involved in service makes me feel worthwhile.=When most of us arrived in Narcotics Anonymous, we had very little self-worth left to salvage. Many members say that they began to develop self-esteem through being of service early in their recovery. Something just short of a miracle occur...
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JFT April 30 God does for us
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Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves.Basic Text, p. 99=How often have we heard it said in meetings that God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves? At times we may get stuck in our recovery...
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Happiness and Joy
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As I was reading my spiritual writings today I was looking at two of the emotions of our lives Happiness and Joy. We all want to be happy I believe,I see visions of christmas gifts, walking with our loved ones, laughter ,vacationing away from work,chasing elusive dreams,spending money,collecti...
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JFT April 28 Who really gets better?
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We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes. Our best thinking got us into trouble. We recognize the need for change.Basic Text, p. 55=When new in recovery, most of us had at least one person we just couldnt stand. We thought that person was the rudest, most obnoxious person in the program....
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JFT April 29 "What if..."
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April 29What if...Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. We learned to take whatever actions are necessary and to leave the results in the hands of our Higher Power.Basic Text, p. 94=In our active addiction, fear of the future and what might happen was a reali...
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