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Family Time
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Morning everyone! Hope this day finds you blessed!! Stopping in to let you know Friday morning,early, we are heading to Rockport ,Massachusetts,(from upstate New York to spend 3 days with my mom and my brother,late birthday celebration for mom,86!!! Very quaint little fishing town right on the wa...
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boundries and new arrangments
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the room mate thing has been talked about he is on the couch and be taking care of himself till he can get back home I set boundries and "rules" sono more drama can be brought for today saw my shrink for the last time took him a cake with a straight jacket and EOD on the cake he was suprised made me fe...
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JFT October 19 Standing for something
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October 19 Standing for something...we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us. Basic Text, p. 88 = In our active addiction, we were prepared to compromise everything we believed in just to get our hands on more drugs. Whether we stole from our families...
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Help and advice please
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I have never posted on one of these boards before but I need some help. My son who is my life (as well as all my kids) is addicted to cocaine he is also an alcoholic. I found out he was using, confronted him on this, we had an intervention with the friends of his that are clean and the friends he has had the lon...
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JFT October 15 Choices
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October 15 Choices We did not choose to become addicts. Basic Text, p. 3 = When we were growing up, all of us had dreams. Every child has heard a relative or neighbor ask, What do you want to be when you grow up? Even if some of us didnt have elaborate dreams of success, most of us dreamed of work, families,...
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Find a meeting anywhere in the US by text. FREE
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Hi brothers and sisters, I've created an app to help NA members worldwide. Pay nothing other than what your phone company charges to send and receive texts. Text "NA" followed by your zip code to 484-843-1767 details at www.mytextupdate.com I apologize if this comes off as spam. I create...
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feel like using
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all the frustration having some one aqround who presente them self very different than when I met him he is a complete ass but that was not how he was when we met I angry hurt and frusterated he has no place to go and i am not mean enough to tell him to grt out fml sucidal thoughts are running umuck in my brain s...
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WE DON'T SHOOT OUR WOUNDED
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WHAT I HAVE LEARNED IS THAT WE DO CAUSE HARM WHEN WE BASH, BE NON-SUPPORTIVE OR EVEN IGNORE OUR WOUNDED. I HAVE TO OWN - THAT I HAVE DONE THAT - I REALLY HAD TO LOOK AT IT THIS WEEK - SOMEONE CLOSE IS GOING THRU A ROUGH TIME - AND I CAN BE SUPPORTIVE AND LOVING - BUT I SEE OTHERS BEING PRETTY HARSH, AND TIRED OF WAL...
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JFT October 18 We all belong
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October 18 We all belongAlthough politics makes strange bedfellows, as the old saying goes, addiction makes us one of a kind. Basic Text, p. 87 = What a mixture of folks we have in Narcotics Anonymous! In any given meeting on any given night, well find a variety of people who probably never would have s...
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JFT October 17 The truth
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October 17 The Truth Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth. Basic Text, p. 94 = Many of us thought we could recognize The Truth. We believed the truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily and without question. The real truth,...
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frustration with self
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Ever since the doc deal I have had a problem with thrust then I open up once again and I'm am not sure what to think or do like inviting a stranger into my home to help someone out why must I be so open? helpful to the point it almost drives me insane in the process I am so used to being alone I must say that things a...
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New guy saying hello
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Just got out of Rehab in Chandler AZ. I am looking for both a sponsor and a NA group. I think I found a few good NA's so I will try them. Quick info.... I was high on everything you could think of in the 70's-80's.. I got clean in 1989 and stayed clean for 16 years....
I then got hooked again on 'H' and been high...
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JFT October 16 The simplest prayer
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October 16 The simplest prayer ...praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Step Eleven = How do we pray? With little experience, many of us dont even know how to begin. The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated. We came to Narcotics Anonymous bec...
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Just for today texts?
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Anyone know how to get the JFT daily reading sent to my cell as a text?
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Trusting in my Higher Powers plan!
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I share this because it has been a concern and I free myself by sharing not only with my God but with the fellowship.(not all things,some are just for my sponsor) As we close our meetings in upstate New York ,taking a moment in reflection of the sick and suffering in and outside of the rooms and to the &q...
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wanting to intergrate
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I have this person who is staying with me and says he is trying to help me by saying I don't need my meds that I deal with things by medicating he says he conquered it without but i don't think he realizes what he is saying or how he is saying it I just wanted to help now I am being yelled at on my bday and this day ha...
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Sick
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I am sorry I havent been on lately,I have been dealing with alot in the past week. Last Sunday I had recieved a call from my cousin in Buffalo,New York stating that I had a double death in the family. The deaths were 3 days apart and then last Monday I had an ovarian cyst burst inside me and cause me an excruit...
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Welp heres how i see it today LOL
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Lifes a bowl of cherrys, with pits, enjoy the cherry and quit bitchin just spit that damn pit out and keep it simple. I'm headed to San Francisco for a few days post up some pics once I get back, I love the architecture there and the food oh my the food everything else should be burned LOLOLOL, bye.
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meeting
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I was there to chair the meeting tonight no one showed I need some willingness to try to get this meeting on its feet but icannot do it alone!
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I don't need anger management I just need ppl to stop pissing me off
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okay I have been around ppl for 16 hour days after being in my room for over a year I am so ready for sunday to come to and end the pay check is nothing compared to the drama from the company I work for so I will be relaxing all wekk thank god I am grateful that itried and suceeded in a short term job but I found out r...
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JFT OCtober 14 The end of loneliness
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October 14 The end of lonelinessWith the love that I am shown in Narcotics Anonymous, I have no excuse for loneliness. = Addiction is a lonely disease.We may be surrounded by people but, sooner or later, our addiction drives a wedge between us and even our closest loved ones.Many of us are driven to Nar...
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JFT October 13 Making a difference
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October 13 Making a difference Words cannot describe the sense of spiritual awareness that we receive when we have given something, no matter how small, to another person. Basic Text, p. 104 = Sometimes it seems as though there is so much wrong with the world that we might as well forget trying to make a...
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Locating sponser
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Seeking s sponser for the baltimore, md area
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JFT October 12 Being right
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October 12 Being rightWhen we admit that our lives have become unmanageable, we dont have to argue our point of view.... We no longer have to be right all the time. Basic Text, p. 58 = Nothing isolates us more quickly from the warmth and camaraderie of our fellow NA members than having to be right. Inse...
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JFT October 11 Eyeglasses and attitudes
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October 11 Eyeglasses and attitudes Our best thinking got us into trouble.... Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes. Basic Text, p. 55 = In active addiction, the world probably looked like a horrible place. Using helped us tolerate the world we saw. Today, however, we understan...
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well...
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I made it thru yesterday was a wierd day but I am still clean and doin ok have a friend staaying for a bit then they will be moving on to Colorado bout a month they are alot like me has a hard time seeing my anxeties but hoping they will adjust Ienjoy having some one around just wondering wtf Iwas thinking bu...
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october 11th
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this is a stressfull day in my mind cause this is the day I overdoes (purposly) to end it all last year thoughts of death still dance about in my brain wondering why it didn't work...cause for so long I was mad and disappointed that i didn't suceed but now after working the fair I know I can conquer my fears t...
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Newcomer
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Hello everyone, I have been in recovery(off and on) since 2002. I relapsed march 2009 and it's going down hill fast. There is an AA here in my town but they tend to get mad if people discuss addiction to drugs. I understand it's all an addiction but I do not drink, never have, I just don't like the taste and...
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getting my head right
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sorry guys that i was gone for so long had to sort a few things out i am not in the best of ways but i am safe sometimes making ammends then take the heat for them is what you have to doit still does'ntmake you feel anybetter
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JFT October 10 Consequences
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October 10 ConsequencesBefore we got clean, most of our actions were guided by impulse. Today, we are not locked into this type of thinking. Basic Text, p. 90 = Ever been tempted to do something even when you knew the results would be disastrous? Ever thought about how much it was going to hurt to do wh...
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