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March 18, 2010 The full messag
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March 18, 2010The full messagePage 80 "There is a special feeling for addicts when they discover that there are other people who share their difficulties, past and present." Basic Text, pp. 55-56 The wealth of our recovery is too good to keep to ourselves. Some of us believe that when we ta...
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March 17, 2010 True courage
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March 17, 2010True couragePage 79 "Those who make it through these times show a courage not their own." Basic Text, p. 86 Before coming to NA, many of us thought we were brave simply because we had never experienced fear. We had drugged all our feelings, fear among them, until we had convinc...
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March 16, 2010 Inventory
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March 16, 2010InventoryPage 78 "The purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to sort through the confusion and the contradiction of our lives so that we can find out who we really are." Basic Text, p. 27 Using addicts are a confused and confusing bunch of people. It's hard to t...
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March 15, 2010 Feeling a "part of"
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March 15, 2010Feeling a "part of"Page 77 "The get-togethers after our meetings are good opportunities to share things that we didn't get to discuss during the meeting." Basic Text, p. 98 Active addiction set us apart from society, isolating us. Fear was at the core of that ali...
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QOD 3/12/10
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How do you get the excitement back in your recovery after long periods of abstinece ?
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God's plan on a Saturday morning!
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Morning family! On Saturday we have a "new" meeting that just started up bout a month ago.Its called New Beginnings and it is an NA meeting but a lot of the men that live there are from another fellowship or attend both fellowships.So anyway,I wasn;t planning on making this meeting this wee...
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And now about sex !!!
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Hi everybody,, I have a request = Please share honestly about how you stay sane during sexual unmanageability !
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March 13, 2010 That one special person
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March 13, 2010That one special personPage 75 "A sponsor is not necessarily a friend, but may be someone in whom we confide. We can share things with our sponsor that we might not be comfortable sharing in a meeting." IP No. 11, Sponsorship Revised We've asked someone to sponsor us, and the...
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I am coming to realize I can't and we can... in this realization I know I do not have to be alone thru what ever emotion I may be feeling especially HALT I am lonely I am tired and a bit depressed A little scared to be feeling at all since my hospitalization I have been so numb today I feel what I am supposed to I g...
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I'm good
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Having had a spiritual awakening as the results of these steps we carried the message to other addicts and practiced these principles in all our affairs. Well it's not just a promiss it's really happening for me as i had hoped it would, its a slow process but im on step 9 and having gotten past those last f...
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March 12, 2010 Getting out of the rut
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March 12, 2010Getting out of the rutPage 74 "Many times in our recovery, the old bugaboos will haunt us. Life may again become meaningless, monotonous, and boring." Basic Text, p. 78 Sometimes it seems as though nothing changes. We get up and go to the same job every day. We eat dinner at the...
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another year
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welp today is my birthday. 19. another year is gone, i hate birthdays they are days just like any other nothing is special about them except that you're a year older whoopdie fricken do. and none of my friends are home so its not like i get to celebrate or go out and do something so im not too excited about bi...
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QOD 3/11/10
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Besides recovery , what do you get excited about ?
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A girl was visiting her blonde friend, who had acquired two new dogs, and asked her what their names were. The blonde responded by saying that one was named Rolex and one was named Timex. Her friend said, 'Whoever heard of someone naming dogs like that?' 'HELLLOOOOOOO......,' answered the blonde. '...
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March 11, 2010 Lightening the load
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March 11, 2010Lightening the loadPage 73 "It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another It will make us feel better to clean up our lives." Basic Text, p. 38 Sometimes we need something tangible to help us understand what holding a resentment is doing to us. We may not be awa...
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A very good experience !
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Folks, I wish this pic had a video too. There I am playing my music, in the company of some world famous musicians who are NA members ! That certainly was a defining moment for me,,,
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lol this one takes the cake in blonde j okes
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A Russian, an American, and a Blonde were talking one day.The Russian said, 'We were the first in space!' The American said, 'We were the first on the moon!' The Blonde said, 'So what? We're going to be the first on the sun!' The Russian and the American looked at each other and shook their heads.'You...
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March 10, 2010 Our own recovery
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March 10, 2010Our own recoveryPage 72 "The steps are our solution. They are our survival kit. They are our defense against addiction, a deadly disease. Our steps are the principles that make our recovery possible." Basic Text, p. 19 There's lots to like in Narcotics Anonymous. The meeti...
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recovery date
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Today is 2 years and 7 months in recovery. Notice I didnt say clean time. There is a difference. Anyone can get clean time. Its a little harder to get recovery time. I do it one hour at a time and sometimes one minute at at time. Na works and it is simple! Come join me today in recovery!
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went to the shrink today
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I had an appointment with the shrink today I got a question answered that i have been asking for a few years question being: why at one point in my life can I be out going and then to totally shut down; simple answer I don't know what is safe anymore I figure I can't get hurt at home. that makes sense to a point t...
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March 09, 2010 Small thing
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March 09, 2010Small thingsPage 71 "In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills." Basic Text, p. 90 Making mountains out of molehills seems to be our specialty. Have you heard it said that to an addict, a flat tire is a traumatic event? Or how abou...
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QOD 3/8/10
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What do you consider acceptable and /or a necessary reasons to change sponsors ?
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Meaning in living !!!
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Life seems to be about winning, losing and sharing . Before I came to NA, i lived life by default,, most being in the wrong places at the wrong time or feeling out of place in the right places even at right times. But now I got a daily choice and this is what today means to me= Instead of winning mind games argu...
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Recovery at Home!
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Our familires will not appeciate the change NA makes in our life unless we show them! If we rush off to a meeting,convention,celebration,just like we Did whe we rushed off to use drugs what has changed?? If we ignore the needs and desires of our partners and children we aren't practising spiritual pr...
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March 08, 2010 Learning to love ourselves
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March 08, 2010Learning to love ourselvesPage 70 "What we want most is to feel good about ourselves." Basic Text, p. 101 "We'll love you until you can learn to love yourself!" These words, heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerly-the day when we'll...
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QOD 3/6/10
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What do you do with a sponsee who has been in and out for years and simply won't follow suggestions? How do you let a sponsee go?
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QOD 3/5/10
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"Its not where we've been that counts, but where we are going.." So where are you going?
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update
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I have not posted as much as usual so I thought being curtious I would give you an update well the Dad thing I am doin my best to wrap my head around how does a Father do such things to thier own blood...what I did different I let him know he was outta line and not to come back he is not welcome in my life...the co...
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New introductiom
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Hello family, My name is Jeff I live in Newark Ohio. I am a recoving opiate addit. I have 24 days clean time today and am working hard as hell on my recovery. I'm 56 yrs. old and don't feel I have another recovery left. Thanks for listening to me. -- Edited by Jeff753 on Friday 5th of March 2010 05:46:03...
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March 06, 2010 Rationalizing away our recovery
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March 06, 2010Rationalizing away our recoveryPage 68 "As a result of the Twelve Steps, I'm not able to hold on to old ways of deceiving myself." We all rationalize. Sometimes we know we are rationalizing, admit we are rationalizing, yet continue to behave according to our rationalizati...
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