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more will be revealed
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can you handle that ? As time goes by I get glimpses of whats going on in my recovery that pertain to perception. Perception is an awareness, an understanding,discernment of stimulus, things going on around me and within me. Honesty is the hardest thing for me to get . To look at myself and what i'm feeli...
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JFT March 25 I can't but we can
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Decided to try and quit smoking
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So now i'm hooked on Copenhagen, chew, but hell my lungs are dying i have signs of COPD/ephasema, at 49 years old i cant let this continue. so i've cut way back on smoking and feel better already, at least my breathing is better a lot less wheezing and not waking up at night trying to catch my breathe man...
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Hey Manon
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C'mon girl...Let's hear from ya' Here, I'll get you started, A blonde, a brunette, and a redhead were...... OK...your turn!
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JFT March 24 Letting go of the past
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JFT March 23 God's gifts
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still clean
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STILL CLEAN I AM SO VERY PROUD OF MYSELF FOR THIS.. My wife is the most important preson helping me stay clean of cource my kids are too. We move into the apartment in one more week my wife will proubly drive me nuts once we get in it, do this do that we need this we need that i can already hear her. I love you thou...
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chanting during meetings
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Hi Family, I've been clean for a while, but recently moved to a new area. I've obtained a new homegroup here. I like the meeting but the member chant wildly during the readings, cross-talk & put other members on the spot during open discussion meetings. We are having a buisness meeting soon &am...
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JFT March 22 The principle of self-support
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"In our addiction, we were dependent on people, places, and things. We looked to them to support us and supply us with the things we found lacking in ourselves." NA Basic Text, pp. 70-71. -- Edited by Dave R on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 05:39:18 AM
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Clean Date
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Getting clean...need tips for easing detox from opiates.
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I'm six days into detox from opana. I was taking up to 150mg a day, *snorting* and tapered down to about 60mg, then went cold turkey. First day not so bad...Second day, vomiting, double vision, convulsions. VERY SCARY. Hands were numb... Now i'm on day six, and i'm still having chills, some sweats,...
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worried
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i have aggrievated an old injury to my lower back have to go the 29th for surgury a fusion just a little worried about it talked to my sponcer and home group and i think it will be ok
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Where to start?? Scared
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Sooooo...... My wish for my 33rd birthday is to be free of narcotic pain medicine well before the 26th. Even if I am only narcotic free for 3 days as my first hurdle, then everyday after that. Started on pain meds for real reasons, now dependence is there even when pain really isn't there. My psychiatris...
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JFT March 21 A treatable illness
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"Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs." NA Basic Text, p. 3. -- Edited by Dave R on Monday 21st of March 2011 05:49:13 AM
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Thoughts on 13th Steppers?
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We have a member (female) that is continually preying on halfway house clients... typically sleeping with a different guy every night. It's bothering some other newer members and they came to me for some experience, strength, and hope. It's escalated recently (without going into too many deta...
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JFT March 20 Higher power
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"Most of us have trouble admitting that addiction has become a destructive force in our lives. Our best efforts resulted in even greater destruction and despair. At some point, we realized that we needed the help from some power greater than our addiction." NA Basic Text, p. 24. -- Edit...
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count down begins
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at midnight I will have 30 days the most time I have had in quite some time I am grateful for a God that gives me refuge day to day breathe by breath if needed I am so grateful for the spiratual gifts I am recieving I talked to my shrink cause I though tI might be paranoid he says it's not paranoia it is anxiety wh...
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JFT March 19 Something valuable to share
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I am having trouble pasting the JFT reading into this message, so it will be brief: "A simple, honest message of recovery rings true." NA Basic test, p. 51. Our sharing doesn't have to be fancy or funny to ring true. Every addict working an honest program that brings meaningful recovery ha...
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JFT March 18 The full message
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March 18The full messageThere is a special feeling for addicts when they discover that there are other people who share their difficulties, past and present.Basic Text, pp. 55-56=The wealth of our recovery is too good to keep to ourselves. Some of us believe that when we talk in meetings, we should...
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JFT March 17 True courage
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March 17True courageThose who make it through these times show a courage not their own.Basic Text, p. 86=Before coming to NA, many of us thought we were brave simply because we had never experienced fear. We had drugged all our feelings, fear among them, until we had convinced ourselves that we were...
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scared but more stable
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I have been talking to doctors all week long to find out how many are gonna be in tthe operating room for the first of a series of surgeries that are necassary a bit scared always am when I go under almost lost my Nana that way. I have had so many i shouldn't b scared but I guess I am a cry baby in that department...
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*Primal Scream*
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*insert primal scream here* Man, it's one of those days... I'm getting a case of the "hates." (I hate my job, I hate my coworkers, I hate my boss, I hate the fact that I'm a f***ing receptionist when I have a degree in music...) This is another part of my addiction... entitlement, control, an...
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Is this website still active?
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Hi Im Tina, and I've been trying to log on to the meeting for 2 days now, because it's time I make my way back to meetings, and my abuser is in the local rooms. I've been outta the rooms for 3 years or so. If anyone knows when to be here, Ill check back, because 10pm doesn't seem to be working. Or maybe it's me....
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JFT March 16 Inventory
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March 16InventoryThe purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to sort through the confusion and the contradiction of our lives so that we can find out who we really are.Basic Text, p. 27=Using addicts are a confused and confusing bunch of people. Its hard to tell from one minute to the...
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Surrender to win
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Hi family, my name is Melva R. and I'm definitely an addict, and just for today I am able to accept that fact for what it is. I'm no longer trying to look for loopholes in the program of NA. I've come to know that acceptance is a part of surrender for me which took as long as it took. I'm simply making that stat...
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despondent
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for lack of a better word I chose thatI am kinda in a weird state of mind I really just don't care I am really rethinking the roomate deal but I go to pre op for a series of sureies that I have managed to put off for sometime and will need around the clock care. My shrink is also saying I need that as well for now bu...
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JFT March 15 Feeling "a part of"
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March 15Feeling a part ofThe get-togethers after our meetings are good opportunities to share things that we didnt get to discuss during the meeting.Basic Text, p. 98=Active addiction set us apart from society, isolating us. Fear was at the core of that alienation. We believed that if we let othe...
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Finding my way back
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I had 2 years of clean time and i relapsed recently. I don't know how to go back to a meeting and admit my mistake. I want to get clean and stay clean, but I am unsure of myself. i remember how I walked into the door previously and i don't want to have to reach that bottom again. I feal like i am keeping a dirty lit...
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Story of a friend.............
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The man was 78 when he died peacefully surrounded by his family day before....I didnt know he would, otherwise Id have simply cancelled the music practice and gone there instead..... Anyways, here is his story, which he wanted me to share with other addicts...... Y joined the navy when young and went...
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Loving What Is
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Hi everybody. By seeking a better way to live we are improving the world. I hope you are finding recovery in YOUR life. I haven't been active on this brd, and just felt like sharing where I've been at. Approaching 4 years clean... basically I stopped all forms of mind altering substances the day she said...
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