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Healing my brokenness
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Morning everyone! here we go again!!(God's grace) "The next time I am with my friends,I will listen to myself speak and focus on the ways that I might be trying to hide my own brokenness" Today I will set out to have' no more lies,no more pretense.I will work to tell everyone the truth.In God...
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Overwhelming myself as a way to cope with/avoid life.
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Everyone: I think I have developed a way of coping with life, and avoiding happiness, by staying not just busy but overwhelmed. I have a wonderful life and an excellent relationship and lots of friends! Still inside the old message: Not enough, comes up. I'm busy as hell, still sometimes getting the m...
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i hate people
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my little friend was just diagnosed with bi polar and shes having a hard time and im trying to be supportive of her because im really her only friend left and sometimes she just pisses me off soooooooo bad that i blow up in her face. but ya know she just texted me and said she wanted to cut because her therap...
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moral dilema
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I wanna quit my job but if I do I won't make thru the month and have my basic needs whats bad is my job causes more probs I have a new boyfriend and being an escort is not what I wanna do I hate it and only 50 short to having what i need but since i isolate and mom doesn't know i work and is in a finacial bind as well I a...
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July 20, 2010 Step One
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July 20, 2010Step OnePage 210 "We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable." Step One The First Step begins with "we," and there's a reason for that. There is great strength in making a verbal admission of our powerlessness. A...
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The Best Deal on the internet
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http://www.na.org/admin/include/spaw2/uploads/pdf/BT6E_Webposting.pdf
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life is really bout to change
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well the extra cash I have been making is no more I quit today so now its just disability and mom has my accounts so I will be fine just no extra fun stuff o well just a small price tro pay to be an active member of society all in all it will be better for me
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"Speaker Jam"
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Man ,it was toasty,but blessed.I bought a ton of coffee and stuff but didn't use a lot this round,way too hot I guess for coffee drinkers.I cut back to about 5 cups myself!!! The message was clear and we still had approx. 200-250 addicts come and go!..The primary topic was 'the message is Hope and the PRO...
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Take a rest!
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We are in anticipation of our house for sale possibly closing this Friday ,the 23rd.We are appox. 80% moved into our house for rent but still kind of in limbo waiting patiently.My early readings today say:Let all that I am wait quietly before God,for my hope is in Him(your own concept of God).He alone i...
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July 18, 2010 The gift of desperation
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July 18, 2010The gift of desperationPage 208 "Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until, in desperation, we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous." Basic Text, p. 13 When we think of being desperate, we envision an undesirable state: a poor, bedraggled...
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Hello Higher Power, its me...
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its me, your favorite misfit. I give it all up to you today. Will you help me please, to make it thru this day? I surender this day. i like it when u are in control. it works beter that way. in case no one told you, I need you. GBU....
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amazed
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I can't believe how smoothly this month has gone mentally pain wise i was in the hospital for 14 days trying to see wht this new problem with my hernia is gonna do I have a week worth of test they just don't wanna do surgery if thier is another way to deal with it that is a good thing tho cause I hate going under b...
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July 16, 2010 Self-esteem
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July 16, 2010Self-esteemPage 206 "Deep inside, I had feelings of inadequacy and inferiority." Somewhere along the way, many of us developed strong feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. Deep inside was a voice that continually cried out, "You're worthless!" Many of us l...
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July 17, 2010 Using our "using dreams"
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July 17, 2010Using our "using dreams"Page 207 "Do we fully accept the fact that our every attempt to stop using or to control our using failed?" Basic Text, p. 19 The room is dark. Your forehead is bathed in cold sweat. Your heart is racing. You open your eyes, sure that you've jus...
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seemsI need a bit of gratitude
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I can't seem to have much to complAIN about of course I am in pain but that is life I am grateful that it could always be worse I am grateful my fammily is mending I am grateful to have a nice boyfriend who deals with all of us quite well I'm not sure he know the honest truth about me but in time and some things are...
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How will I ever get through this?
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I can barely see because my eyes are so swollen from crying but it won't stop. I need someone who's a parent of teenage daughter's to tell me the truth. Will they ever really forgive me? It's getting worse not better. My youngest dd turned 16 and didn't even want me to go w/ her to get her license. As mos...
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What is the best way for me to help?????????
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My husband and I are trying to reconcile after being separated for the last 5 months. When he was asked to leave 5 months ago it was due to his addictions ( oxy's mostly) but will do anything. He wen't to a 21 day rehab program during our time apart and said he had never felt better. He relapsed about 3 weeks o...
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July 15, 2010 Relations with others
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July 15, 2010Relations with othersPage 205 "We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all." Step Eight All human beings struggle with self-centeredness. The chronic self-centeredness that lies at the very core of addiction makes that struggle...
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Raman I need your sax for this one see what you can do?
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hey I wrote another poem that is how the first song was made and to me is very profound can you put music to it you are allowed to change the words not the message: To be above everything & everybody no one to yell and scream no pain no tears with that comes no laughter to be heard no joy to see kinda bland it...
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Need help
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I don't know where to turn to. I've been abusing over-the-counter Mucinex DM for the dextromethoraphan in it, taking up to 800 mg a day of it. I have two young girls and a boyfriend in my home that I hide it from. I want to quit for my girls. I have social anxiety and depression and take medications for it b...
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Today,lets exercise our trust
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Today I hear" And we know in all things the God of our understanding works for the good of those who love Him ,who have been called according to His purpose" When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets very dark,we don't throw away the ticket and jump off. We still sit and trust the engineer....
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Saturday Speaker Jam!
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This Saturday,the 17th of July,Our Saturday homegroup 'Men Do Recover"once again presents our quarterly "speaker jam" Format 2;00 p.m.. until 12:00 p.m, speakers from all around Tri-State area(NY/NJ/CONN) ,12 speakers, will share 1/2 hour each,with breaks in between and fol...
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Relapse
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My boyfriend has relapsed and I am at my wits end as what to do. Do I take his phone calls?, do I respond to his texts,do I get mad and yell at him? Not sure if I am supposed to be doing tough love or telling him to come home and try to get clean. I am so scared of losing him and want to help but it seems like that is...
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couple days ago I saw over 25
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people viewing this place WOW comeon folks post lets get this place rockin, it's an excellent forum and place to give and get support, we could be another earthgroup LOLOL.
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Please excuse,,,,
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A man and his wife were working in their garden one day and the man looks over at his wife and says: 'Your butt is getting really bigger I mean reeeally big. I bet your butt is bigger than the barbecue.' With that, he proceeded to get a measuring tape and measure the grill and then went over to where his...
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have not been around much
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had a few procedures to relieve pain and then ended up in worse pain to find out something is cutting the blood flow to my stomach apperantly that is critical they post poned the surgery to fix this and have decided to do more test... so I wait... I hate waiting "the addict" in kme lol anyway jul...
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need help, terrified of meeting, terrified to stop
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i have been keeping a secret from everyone one in my life, i am a daily user. Vicodin, Xanax, Adderall, usually a combo of the three, and ambien to sleep. I've built up quite a tolerance, and live in daily shame. I am a 27 year old female, and to the outside world I am a happy, beautiful lively person. In...
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Where is my subscribed topics at?
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I know I have a few from the past. Would like to check in on them. UPDATE: found it trying to delete this topic... cant find it -- Edited by gettingbackup on Monday 12th of July 2010 06:41:57 PM
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July 14, 2010 An "inside Job"
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July 14, 2010An "inside Job"Page 204 "Social acceptability does not equal recovery." Basic Text, p. 22 One of the first things that happens to many of us in recovery is that we start to look better. We get healthier; we bathe; we dress more appropriately. And without the goadin...
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Well i can't prove it you guys will have to take my word for it
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I have 4 years clean and sober today WOO HOO and it just keeps getting better.
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