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JFT September 23 Dealing with gossip
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September 23 Dealing with gossipIn accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other. Basic Text, p. 11 = Lets face it: In Narcotics Anonymous, we live in a glass house of sorts. Our fellow members know more about our personal lives than anyone...
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JFT September 22 Keeping the gift
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September 22 Keeping the giftLife takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift. Basic Text, p. 107 = Neglecting our recovery is like neglecting any other gift weve been given. Suppose someone gave you a new car. Would you let it sit in the driveway until the tires rotted? Would you just d...
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Here I go again
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I just don't get it???? I'm so glad that I'm clean yet I go through these really depressive states. I feel like I've got this great big scream trapped inside me. I've been prayin my little heart out for 2 days now and I'm just not getting any relief. Maybe it's got something to do with this tooth ache I've ha...
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ok here we go!
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I have a sponsor now who is educated with most of my issues have relized Ihave issues with self honesty but at the same tiome honest to a fault??!! I called my new shrink told them how long Ithink Ihave been in my room and I go tomorrow told them why I cancelled my therapy appointment aggitated cause she say...
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what does "normal" feel like
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I have no problem meeting ppl but then they see just how profound my probs are and sooner or later they all leave i don't wanna be alone nemore i want to not fear the outside world per say
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Heading North again!
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We are on our way back to New York state tonight at 7:15 tonight....Had a blessed and wonderful stay.Able to get to 3 meetings ,all during the day,and met some nice people. The world wide fellowship reaches its arms out to all ,felt like I belonged in each group, wonderful.Being new guy in town I was aske...
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Get Clean and Stay Clean without GOD
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You can get clean and stay clean without being confused about the religious spirituality of 12 step programs because I have and so have many, many others. You no longer have to feel guilt about being a closet athiest in NA. "the steps are ment to be suggestive only" You cant turn it over when i...
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JFT September 21 Prayer
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September 21 PrayerPrayer takes practice, and we should remind ourselves that skilled people were not born with their skills. Basic Text, p. 46 = Many of us came into recovery with no experience in prayer and worried about not knowing the right words. Some of us remembered the words wed learned in ch...
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JFT September 20 Courage to change
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September 20 Courage to changeGod, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Serenity Prayer = Recovery involves change, and change means doing things differently. The problem is, many of us resist doin...
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Positivity
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Ok, so i had to do this assignment in my Outpatient.. i had to say something positive about myself.. here's what i got: I've obsessed for days nowfor this "positivity" you ask of methought of things and dismissed thembecause positive i cant seem to seeI thought well, I'm a good mombut we all...
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JFT September 19 Fellowship
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September 19 FellowshipIn NA, our joys are multiplied by sharing good days; our sorrows are lessened by sharing the bad. For the first time in our lives, we dont have to experience anything alone. IP No. 16, For the Newcomer = When we practice using the steps and the other tools of our program to work th...
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Faith restored
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my son is home and well ty you all for your prayers and support I am still clean thru these trials and doin well myself I appriciate MIP for all you have done for me over the years ty opnce again
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Frustrated and Hurt
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As many of you know, my life is dedicated to trying to provide a safe haven for alcoholics, addicts and their families who have a desire to recover; Both online with the MIP web site and here in Wilmington, NC with the MIP recovery homes. Well, this past Friday I came home to find the police (7 cars) in fr...
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home early
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my somn is in the hospital deyhydrated and with a migraine preparing for an MRI and who knows aht else god when it rains it pours grateful I don't have to use over this today but my stress level is high so please pray aand send blessings to him and our family
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I'm 2yrs today
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Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear Ruthy, happy birthday to me........Yehhhhhhh
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JFT September 18 Honest relationships
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September 18 Honest relationshipsOne of the most profound changes in our lives is in the realm of personal relationships. Basic Text, p. 57 = Recovery gives many of us relationships that are closer and more intimate than any weve had before. As time passes, we find ourselves gravitating toward tho...
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HELP
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Ok, so Knowledge is power right?? and obviously at this point i am power-less.. so maybe someone here can help me out.. where can i find things like quotes (once youre a pickle you can never be a cucumber again) things about your brain (like the synapsis you have that can be coated with opiates for up to t...
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LOSS OF MORE ADDICTS
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WELL - IN THE LAST WEEK AND HALF - WE LOST 2 KNOWN ADDICTS - THAT WERE COMING AROUND - THE DISEASE TOOK THEM OUT..AND TRULY BASED ON THE CHOICES WE MAKE IN OUR LIFE - EFFECTS OUR LIFE AND OTHERS..I FINALLY GET THAT - PRETTY SAD WHEN WE MAKE A CONSCIOUS CHOICE TO PICKUP AGAIN AND TRULY NOT KNOWING IF THIS IS THE T...
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JFT September 15 Filling the emptiness
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September 15 Filling the emptiness...we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, well be satisfied and everything will be alright. Basic Text, p. 80 = In our addiction, we could never get enough drugs, or money, or sex, or anything else. Even too much was never enough! T...
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Custody Battle In Recovery---Any Advice, Please?
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Hi, my name is Alison and I'm a recovering addict with nine and a half months clean who is involved in a nasty custody battle; trying to get my children back. Anybody had any positive experiences/ My attorney is an "18b lawyer", appointed by the judge, and I don't think she really cares abou...
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JFT September 17 Going beyond step five
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September 17 Going beyond Step FiveWe may think that we have done enough by writing about our past. We cannot afford this mistake. Basic Text, p. 32 = Some of us arent too keen on writing out our Fourth Step; others take it to an obsessive extreme. To our sponsors growing dismay, we inventory ourselve...
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JFT September 16 Emotional balance
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September 16 Emotional balanceEmotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our experience bears this out. Basic Text, p.47 = Though each of us defines emotional balance a little differently, all of us must find it. Emotional balance can mean finding and maintaining a positive...
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Time to move on !!
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Im movin from this group which was my home group for 8 years. I served as gsr-a, gsr, got elected as Chairman of WorldWide Workshop from this group and had many good relationships and happy moments. Ive seen that group almost die and then grow to become the group with most attendence, with at least 25 to 4...
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upset
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hey everyone... iv been having a problem the last few weeks..my girlfriend keeps thinking i relapse or going to...i keep reassuring her that i haven't an I'm not going to....i tell her i refuse an wont give myself permission to go back to that horrible life...i love who i am today...i know its going to t...
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just checking in
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I thought I would write and let ya'll know I am alive not well but alive I have a week clean midnight yay! I am extremly pysically sick have been for awhile this is my second anti biotic doc wants to run some tests if this doesn't work it seems that mt COPD is reaching a crucial point in my life or at l;east that...
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Never Posted B4... Need Advice
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Hey- I am an addict, I have nearly 4 months clean (although we don't front clean time) and I am ridiculously grateful for NA and my recovery. I have found so many people who love and understand me, and that is why I now need advice. There is another addict in my home group who had gotten clean 5 days before me...
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Blessings and thoughts from a different space!
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Morning Everyone..We arrived safe and sound and on time in Deerfield Beach Friday evening.Wonderful to see in laws and family.Been literally running ever since then.Today my wife and I go into chill mode.....We are on way to the pool right up the road from my sister in laws house,then we are going to b...
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change of plans don't hate me
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I am needed by a fellow addict in missouri I will be leaving tomorrow after my dental appointment my friend will be pet/ house sitting for me till sunday night when I return I met her here when Ifirst started posting as RAyne she needs me and it's only a 6 hour drive so I will not be chairing the meeting if so...
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World Unity day 2010, Bangalore !!
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Things are looking up
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Gratitude is on the upswing ---always a blessing! I'm truely getting over the loss of my beloved--for a while I didn't think I could move on, but I actually have. He's also virtually disappeared from my life, which I hope is not permanent, but whatever he's dealing with, I know he knows I'm always go...
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