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Hello and blessings of another day
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It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening. I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more than two and a half decades of active drug addiction/alcoholism was devastating my life and everything and everyone in its path. I lifted my head from the floor...
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Online NA sponsor?
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Hello! Ive been newly introduced to my sober self and decided this time around to take some advice and find a sponsor to help me along the way. Ive had a decent bout with sobriety, but it was nothing conpared to the life ahead of me that im now going to be navigating. Ive gone to what im almost positive has be...
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Was someone looking for Red P Tulsa
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Was someone looking for Red P from Tulsa. Found him! Or am I going crazy?
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Looking for a sponsor
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Hello, I'm writing out hoping that I can find a sponsor. With covid going on, I've been going to a lot of online meetings which makes it more difficult to go to in-person meetings and find a sponsor there. I'm recently back in the program, having had a relapse after ~5 years sober and am actively attendin...
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Looking for any advise
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I posted my story on Al-anon as well and recived wonderful things. My wife belongs to NA and I would like to put this story out to you and see if maybe I can see another point of view.2020 has been the worst year for many, but it has been especially terrible for me. I got to start the year off with planning an in...
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If you could add steps to NA/AA
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Hi, my name is Jon, and I'm new here and just looking for knowledge and experience. My question is for anyone and everyone. If you could add steps to the 12 step programs, what would they be and why? What has helped you all stay clean and focused on recovery and self-improvement? Thank you for any replie...
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In desperate search of a online sponsor
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Hello everyone and anyone reading this, just found this thread, and yes I very well am swear of the fact that this is very old, in fact so old that the message just above my own, the one with the link, and that website dont even exist anymore, but Im writing with the most sincere and desperate hope that some...
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Female looking for an online NA Sponsor ASAP
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Looking for an online NA sponsor. To help me start the road to getting clean. I am nervous and afraid of change but the time to get clean is now. I recentley was arrested and some meth was found in my closet. In result I lost the most important thing in my life. My 11 year old daughter. I let her down and now it...
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Leaving detox
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I need a ride from peoria to galesburg, I have gas money, please help
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sponsorship
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Hi. I am looking for sponsor to work on 12 steps. Any help on this subject will be appreciated. I am from Poland. Thank u.
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jftna.org/jft March 30, 2020 God-centeredness - worth the risk
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March 30, 2020God-centerednessPage 92 "Gradually as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope." Basic Text, p. 95 What a glorious thing to have hope! Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us lived lives of utter hopelessness. We believed we were destined...
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jftna.org/jft March 29, 2020 Our own true will - worth the risk
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March 29, 2020Our own true willPage 91 "God's will for us consists of the very things we most value. God's will... becomes our own true will for ourselves." Basic Text, p. 48 It's human nature to want something for nothing. We may be ecstatic when a store cashier gives us back change for a twenty though...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 28, 2020 Facing feelings - worth the risk
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March 28, 2020Facing feelingsPage 90 "We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic." Basic Text, p. 30 While we were using, many of us were unable or unwilling to feel many emotions. If we were happy, we used to make us happier. If we wer...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 27, 2020 Looking for the assets - worth the risk
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March 27, 2020Looking for the assetsPage 89 "In accordance with the principles of recovery we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other." Basic Text, p. 11 How many times in our recovery have we misunderstood the behavior of another, immediately formed a judgment, applied a label,...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 26, 2020 Trusting a sponsor - worth the risk
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March 26, 2020Trusting a sponsor - worth the riskPage 88 "In seeking a sponsor, most members look for someone they feel they can learn to trust, someone who seems compassionate ..." IP No. 11, Sponsorship, Revised The idea of sponsorship may be new to us. We have spent many years without direction, r...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 25, 2020 I can't, but we can
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March 25, 2020I can't, but we canPage 87 "From the isolation of our addiction, we find a fellowship of people with a common bond... Our faith, strength, and hope come from people sharing their recovery..." Basic Text, p. 98 Admit no weakness, conceal all shortcomings, deny every failure, go it alon...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 24, 2020 Letting go of the past
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March 24, 2020Letting go of the pastPage 86 "It is not where we were that counts, but where we are going." Basic Text, p. 23 When we first find recovery, some of us feel shame or despair at calling ourselves "addicts" In the early days, we may be filled with both fear and hope as we struggle to find new mean...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 23, 2020 God's gifts
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March 23, 2020God's giftsPage 85 "We do the footwork and accept what's being given to us freely on a daily basis." Basic Text, p. 47 Our relationship with our Higher Power is a two-way street. In prayer, we speak and God listens. When we meditate, we do our best to listen for the will of our Higher Power....
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jftna.org/jft/ March 22, 2020 The principle of self-support
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March 22, 2020The principle of self-supportPage 84 "In our addiction, we were dependent upon people, places, and things. We looked to them to support us and supply the things we found lacking in ourselves." Basic Text, pp. 70-71 In the animal kingdom, there is a creature that thrives on others. It i...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 21, 2020 A treatable illness
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March 21, 2020A treatable illnessPage 83 "Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs." Basic Text, p. 3 At our first meeting, we may have been taken aback at the way members shared about how the disease of addiction had affected their lives. We thought to ourselves, "Disease? I'v...
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jftna.org/jft/ 2020, March 19 - Something valuable to share
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March 19, 2020Something valuable to sharePage 81 "A simple, honest message of recovery from addiction rings true." Basic Text, p. 51 You're in a meeting. The sharing has been going on for some time. One or two members have described their spiritual experiences in an especially meaningful way. Ano...
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jftna.org/jft/ 2020, March 17 - True courage
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March 18, 2020The 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 talk in meeti...
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jftna.org/jft/ 2020, March 17 - True courage
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March 17, 2020True 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 convinced ourselv...
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jftna.org/jft/ 2020, March 16 - Inventory
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March 16, 2020InventoryPage 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 tell from on...
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jftna.org/jft/ 2020, March 15 - Feeling a "part of"
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March 15, 2020Feeling 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 alienation. We believed t...
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JFT 2020, March 14 - Relationships
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March 14, 2020RelationshipsPage 76 "Also, our inventories usually include material on relationships." Basic Text, p. 29 What an understatement this is! Especially in later recovery, entire inventories may focus on our relationships with others. Our lives have been filled with relationship...
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Needed Sponsorship
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Hey my name is Ren. I am 31 years old and live in Columbia, Missouri. I have 13 days clean and i am looking for a sponsor whether its online or in person. I don't have transportation so it's been hard getting to in person meetings. So I've been doing phone conference call meetings. Sometimes I even do multi...
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First time here can .
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My name is Teresa first time here and just wondering times of meetings,thank you.
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I feel out of place at meetings
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I have been in and out recovery
For a long time and I feel out place in meetings probably because I'm such a dirt bag,scum bag,
I don't know what to say to people
I really need help
If anyone can tell me how they got over feeling out of place
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BigV What's up?
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Jus checked, you ain't been in here since Oct '17. Did you hit the big strike?
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