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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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JFT September 14 Secrets are reservations
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September 14 Secrets are reservationsEventually we are shown that we must get honest, or we will use again. Basic Text, p. 85 = Everyone has secrets, right? Some of us have little secrets, items that would cause only minor embarrassment if found out. Some of us have big secrets, whole areas of our li...
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JFT September 13 Something different
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September 13 Something differentWe had to have something different, and we thought we had found it in drugs. Basic Text, p. 13 = Many of us have always felt different from other people. We know were not unique in feeling that way; we hear many addicts share the same thing. We searched all our lives for...
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reservations
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I had to remove all temptaion outta my house yesterday was a big move to get the stuff outta the including the bottle I guessI always thought of the drink different cause I never got outta control till my last relapse almost a week clean will be a week tuesday so I guess I just have todat but that too is a mip...
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Next transmission,Deerfield Beach!!
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I will talk to you all from Deerfield Beach Florida next time I am on. Pray with me ,if you would,for travelling mercies and a safe trip.A constant prayer for me rings especially true today"those who hope in God,will fly on wings like eagles,they will run and not grow weary,they will walk and not...
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one meeting a week
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I have been given the okay on service work so wednesday nights seem to be an okay day to do a meeting when more of you are willing to chair we can together collect a week of meeting I commit to wednesday nights at the appointed times poated on this site starting nest week look forward to seeing you there any o...
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JFT September 12 New horizons
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September 12 New horizonsMy life is well-rounded and I am becoming a more comfortable version of myself, not the neurotic, boring person that I thought Id be without drugs. = Is there really life without drugs? Newcomers are sure that they are destined to lead a humdrum existence once they quit usi...
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JFT September 11 Bend with the wind
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September 11 Bend with the windWe learn to become flexible... As new things are revealed, we feel renewed. Basic Text, p. 102 = Flexibility was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. Wed become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the softer, subtler, more in...
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COMFORT
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'The comfort God has given us,He wants us all to share .....with others, who,with broken hearts,are caught in deep despair.Take a moment to thank God for another day clean and free from the devastation of addiction, practiced by applying the spiritual principles of our program Narcotics Anonymo...
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you can be clean yet very very sick....
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Hi everyone and I hope your LAbor Day weekend was a good one for everyone! I have not been here for awhile . Or to any other meeting, done any step work or even read my daily books.....Im sick. ALL of my old bad habits have resurfaced , yet I have not used. I know in my head that if I did not go to an addictionolog...
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JFT September 10 More powerful than words
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September 10 More powerful than wordsWe learn that a simple, loving hug can make all the difference in the world... Basic Text, p. 91 = Perhaps there have been times in our recovery when we were close to someone who was in great pain. We struggled with the question, What can I do to make them feel better?...
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JFT September 9 Feet of clay
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September 9 Feet of clayOne of the biggest stumbling blocks to recovery seems to be placing unrealistic expectations on... others. Basic Text, p. 82 = Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. By comparison, the recovering addicts we meet at meetings may see...
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i screwed up
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went for work ended up at a bar that a friend goes that i knew 2 years agi when the doctor stuff was at it's worst so here i am again hung over what was i thinking??? i kknew i didn't need to be there but i wanted him to see i got my shit together god was i wrong hang over from hell still feeling the martinis so tomor...
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He went back .....again
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After over a year clean as soon as he did his sentence. He's back at it again. And I can't do this anymore. I hate him for this, he doesn't even try.... I can't believe after all these years, he's not tired of throwing away all that money, that he hasn't found any joy in a sober life, in a sober life with me....
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meeting update
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sinceI just screwed up let me consult with my sponser on what she thinks about service work atm we may have to put it off for a bit but I also think she might think jumping in might help so I will keep you updated
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laugh to lighten the load
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A little old lady was walking down the street dragging two large plastic Garbage bags behind her. One of the bags was ripped, and every once in Awhile, a $20 bill fell out onto the sidewalk. Noticing this, a Policeman stopped her, and said, "Ma'am, there are $20 Bills falling Out of th...
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JFT September 8 Rebellion
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September 8 RebellionWe need not lose faith when we become rebellious. Basic Text, p. 35 = Many of us have lived our entire lives in revolt. Our initial response to any type of direction is often negative. Automatic rejection of authority seems to be a troubling character defect for many addicts. A...
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JFT September 7 Resentment and forgiveness
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September 7 Resentment and forgivenessWhere there has been wrong, the program teaches us the spirit of forgiveness. Basic Text, p. 12 = In NA, we begin to interact with the world around us. We no longer live in isolation. But freedom from isolation has its price: The more we interact with people, t...
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Who really gets it?
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I try really hard not to take other peoples inventories... However, I am not blind to what I see in the people who go to the meetings I attend. I wondered often how some come to the fellowship, stay clean, and continue to struggle with the most basic parts of the program... I know some are sicker than other...
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Shock !!!
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I got a shock this morning on learning that my home group voted against me in an election. Fate is the same, whether on the outside or within NA. My home group had a business meeting on Friday. I wasnt even informed. Then they took a vote on elections to Regional Delagate alternate post. I had submitted my...
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