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Bah Humbug
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yeatr after ytear my mnother tyrie to get me to decorAte for the holidays and it is just me here in the apt i see no need to promate SANTA nowI do celebratem my reason for the season for a savior was born a reaon to be able to have the peace I so desperatly look for health wise ok other than a migrane that hasn't g...
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Feeling like I failed myself...
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starting over... again... 284 days, gone... all because I rationalized using a drug to ease the cravings - because that's what it's meant to do when taken properly. And my friends agreed with me... all of them... I can't blame them though... I mean, how would they understand that my thoughts weren't...
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I need a temporary female (long distance) sponsor because I am restarting my steps today!
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I need a temporary female (long distance) sponsor because I am restarting my steps today! We can talk on the phone (I can call for free.. so don't worry about the long distance charges) or skype? But I need someone, because I am in the Dubai and in the midst of changing sponsors here (long story). Plus, I c...
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hoping your holidays are better than mine
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to all here at mip happy holidays to those all around that might be hurting this seasob but realize it is not an excuse to use you might be powerless but you are old enough to make a choice CHOSSE NOT TO USE lonely these days ppl come into thought as reality is finally setting in I have realized that what i th...
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JFT December 14 Addiction, drugs, and recovery
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December 14Addiction, drugs, and recoveryAddiction is a physical, mental, and spiritual disease that affects every area of our lives.Basic Text, p. 20=Before we started using, most of us had a stereotype, a mental image of what addicts were supposed to look like. Some of us pictured a junkie robb...
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Annual Holiday Card Request
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Hello Everyone, Each year at this time, I send out a simple request to all MIP members to consider sending holiday cards to the residents of Miracles In Progress Aftercare Recovery Homes. As many of us already know from our own experience, the holidays during early recovery can be very hard on newco...
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Need some guidance
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I am trying to figure out a different way of dealing with my back pain and just my past i am an oxycontin heroin opiate addict started when i was 12 with methadone and gradually moved on to harder drugs done every kind and only like pain killers its to hard to feel like this all the time i have been trying to d...
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Cutting
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Hi All - I am new to this site. I came because i am struggling with old behaviors of cutting myself. I had quite a number of years free from this behavior until very recently. In the past 19 or 20 days I have cut myself on two separate ocassions. Not very bad cuts but even so. Is there a website just for cut...
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What are the lyrics to your favorite song about addiction or your experience? post them. please :)
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What are the lyrics to your favorite song about addiction or your experience? post them. please :) I have like a billion, but here are my (maybe?) top five.. In no particular order. First: Blue October Overweight lyrics Ever carried the weight of another? For how long? I walk as far as they need to recov...
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power grater
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Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Stay out of your heads boys and girls, it's a terrible place
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Big Book, 3rd edition
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good morning everyone, hope all is well. i need to find The Big Book, 3rd Edition and have looked evereywhere. i have the 4th edition and a bunch of NA books, but there is some reading i would like to do in the 3rd edition. thanks for any tips and i hope everyone has a clean, peacefull day
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JFT December 13 Membership
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December 13MembershipThere is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using.Basic Text, p. 9=We all know people who could benefit from Narcotics Anonymous. Many people we encounter from all walks of lifeour family members, old friends, and coworkerscould really use a program o...
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Clean time
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Today I am celebrating 3 years and 4 months of recovery. It saddens my heart to still have people I know who just dont get it. Its an easy program if you go to 90 meetings in 90 days, get a sponsor, and work the steps. My sponsor just celeberated 14 years in recovery last week. It is awesome. Dont leave b...
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ONLINE MEETING(S)?
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I have been looking for the online meeting here 4 nites in a row at 10pm est...is there actually a meeting? my chat client opens up and it works fine....its just that no one else is there? can anybody give me a link to a "real" online meeting?
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JFT December 12 Fear of change
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December 12Fear of changeBy working the steps, we come to accept a Higher Powers will.... We lose our fear of the unknown. We are set free.Basic Text, p. 16=Life is a series of changes, both large and small. Although we may know and accept this fact intellectually, chances are that our initial emot...
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JFT December 11 Misery is optional
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December 11Misery is optionalNo one is forcing us to give up our misery.Basic Text, p. 29=Its funny to remember how reluctant we once were to surrender to recovery. We seemed to think we had wonderful, fulfilling lives as using addicts and that giving up our drugs would be worse than serving a life se...
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Good News
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DOES ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY, HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER WHO IS DIAGNOSED WITH A DUAL DIAGNOSIS, OR ANY OTHER MENTAL ILLNESS, AND DOES ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY EVER GONE THROUGH CANCERS, HEART DISEASES, AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, MISSCARIAGES, AND BIRTH DEFECTS, OR DO YOU KNOW OF ANYONE WHOS NOT IN YOUR FAMILY, BUT S...
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Anonimaty
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My name is David I am an addict,Could some help me and tell me how to stop my full name from coming up on the screen?
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Waiting for the other shoe to drop...
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My life is good. Really good.I have a loving family, a nice home, reliable transportation and a satisfactory income.Why do I feel like I don't deserve this life I have been blessed with?I am tired of expecting the worst.Just for today I will appreciate the gifts I have been given. I will thank my high...
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JFT December 10 Winners
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December 10WinnersI started to imitate some of the things the winners were doing. I got caught up in NA. I felt good...Basic Text, p. 153=We often hear it said in meetings that we should stick with the winners. Who are the winners in Narcotics Anonymous? Winners are easily identified. They work...
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JFT December 9 Listening
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December 9ListeningThis ability to listen is a gift and grows as we grow spiritually. Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift.Basic Text, p. 107=Have you ever watched two small children carry on a conversation? One will be talking about purple dragons while the other carrie...
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GREAT TO SEE ACTIVITY ON THE BOARD
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Since we have all this activity maybe we should start hosting meetings so I am asking the group what days would ya'll be willing to do service work and chair a meeting since it is online gotta bring you own coffee lol but we need to get a schedule and stick to it consistancy is the only thing tht will get thes...
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very scared
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I am at a terrible place, and I am afraid that by even saying this out loud, I am goign to have to do something about it. I started smoking pot again about 2 years ago. I havent had a sober day since. I managed to get off all sorts of meds for bi polar they had me on..I have been so happy ever since. So many spiri...
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World seems like upside down....
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What a strange thing life is..... I was wishing and hoping to be in a loving relationship and met this woman. Its been a month now and we have been making lots of adjustments..... During times of self-doubt, Im saying to myself "this seems to be arranged by God, so who am I to question ?" Im care...
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JFT December 8 Calling a defect a defect
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December 8Calling a defect a defectWhen we see how our defects exist in our lives and accept them, we can let go of them and get on with our new life.Basic Text, p. 35=Sometimes our readiness to have our character defects removed depends on what we call them. If misnaming our defects makes them seem les...
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just want to say hi to all
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i am spooky (a long time nick-name) and i am new here and pretty new to n.a. i have been out of treament 3 months and although i still struggle at times, life is better!! this the longest i have been clean since starting in 1968...i am thankful for another clean day!!!!!!
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Hello everyone.thanks for support/
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Lucid for a bit today..beenon z pak for 3 days sinusitus,not the case ,no infection,that was emegency room diagnosis! glad they didnt do surgery!!!.went to regular doctor next day she took blood and testing for temporal lobe swelling,lyme an erlichiosis,,tick borne diseas,hunting brings those...
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JFT December 7 Surviving our emotions
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December 7Surviving our emotionsWe use the tools available to us and develop the ability to survive our emotions.Basic Text, p. 31=Survive my emotions? some of us say. Youve got to be kidding! When we were using, we never gave ourselves the chance to learn how to survive them. You dont survive you...
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24 hours...didnt sleep. but i have A DAY
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I rememebr people in AA when I went being SO THRILLED to be off of alcohol for JUST ONE DAY. But, I wasn't an alcoholic, so i couldnt relate to their wonderment... so...here I am; In wonder. (i have never been able to attend an NA meeting f2f yet...) The second thing I remember about AA is they always remin...
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