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JFT April 24, 2018 Twelve steps of life
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Twelve steps of lifePage 118 "Through abstinence and through working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous, our lives have become useful." Basic Text, p. 8 Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, our lives were centered around using. For the most part, we had very little energy left over for jobs,...
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JFT April 23, 2018 A God of our own understanding
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A God of our own understanding Page 117"Many of us understand God to be simply whatever force keeps us clean."Basic Text, p. 25Some of us enter recovery with a working understanding of a Higher Power For a lot of us, however, "God" is a troublesome word. We may doubt the existence of any sort of Power g...
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JFT April 22, 2018 Traveling the open road
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Traveling the open roadPage 116 "This is our road to spiritual growth." Basic Text, p. 37 When we arrived at our first NA meeting, it looked like the end of the road to many of us. We weren't going to be able to use anymore. We were spiritually bankrupt. Most of us were totally isolated and didn't think we h...
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JFT April 21st Fear
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FearWe have found that we had no choice except to completely change our old ways of thinking or go back to using.Basic Text, p. 22=Many of us find that our old ways of thinking were dominated by fear. We were afraid that we wouldnt be able to get our drugs or that there wouldnt be enough. We feared disco...
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JFT April 20, 2018 Detachment
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DetachmentPage 114 "Addiction is a family disease, but we could only change ourselves." Many of us come from severely damaged families. At times, the insanity that reigns among our relatives feels overwhelming. Sometimes we feel like packing our bags and moving far, far away. We pray that our fam...
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JFT April 19, 2018 Footwork
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FootworkPage 113 "So many times, addicts have sought the rewards of hard work without the labor." Basic Text, p. 34 When we first came to NA, some of us wanted everything, and right away. We wanted the serenity, the cars, the happy relationships, the friends, the closeness with our sponsor-all the th...
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Should I keep posting Just For Todays?
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Well the views per post are way down. They use to be a daily occurrence here and had 175 to 200 views per day/post. We are now done to 5-10 views. I was hoping to get the #'s up, but there was like a month lapse and most must be getting link directly? Any opinions??
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Big V where art thou?
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What's up Brother? did you strike the motherlode yet? 2 ski trips to Tahoe this year, thought about you. Still painting?
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JFT April 18, 2018 "I understand"
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"I understand"Page 112 "We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Step Seven Once we are entirely ready to have our character defects removed, many of us are entirely ready! Ironically, that's when the trouble really starts. The more we struggle to rid ourselves of a particular defect, the s...
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JFT April 17, 2018 Priority: meetings
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Priority: meetingsPage 111 "I initially felt that it would be impossible to attend more than one or two meetings a week. It just wouldn't fit in with my busy schedule. I later learned that my priorities were [180] degrees reversed. It was the everything else that would have to fit into my meeting sched...
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JFT April 16, 2018 "Acting as if"
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"Acting as if"Page 110 "Today, we seek solutions, not problems. We try what we have learned on an experimental basis." Basic Text, p. 58 The first time we heard that we should "act as if," many of us exclaimed, "But that's not honest! I thought we were always supposed to be honest about our feelings in Na...
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JFT April 15, 2018 Keep coming back
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Keep coming backPage 109 "We have come to enjoy living clean and want more of the good things that the NA Fellowship holds for us." Basic Text, p. 27 Can you remember a time when you looked at the addicts recovering in NA and wondered, "If they aren't using drugs, what on earth do they have to laugh about?"...
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HUMOR IN RECOVERY SOCK PUPPET PLAY
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I'm curious what you guys think about this dark comedy sock puppet play about an addict sock named Romeo who attends High Socks Anonymous meetings? Like it says, "The thing about socks is they can always GET clean, but usually don't STAY clean" [video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbQT3-_qg...
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JFT April 13, 2018 People-pleasing
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People-pleasing Page 107"approval-seeking behavior carried us further into our addiction..."Basic Text. p. 14When others approve of what we do or say, we feel good; when they disapprove, we feel bad. Their opinions of us, and how those opinions make us feel, can have positive value. By making us f...
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JFT April 12, 2018 The big picture
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The big picturePage 106 "All spiritual awakenings have some things in common. Common elements include an end to loneliness and a sense of direction in our lives." Basic Text, p. 50 Some kinds of spiritual experiences take place when we confront something larger than we are. We suspect that forces be...
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JFT April 11, 2018 A closed mind
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A closed mindPage 105 "A new idea cannot be grafted onto a closed mind Open-mindedness leads us to the very insights that have eluded us during our lives." Basic Text, p. 96 We arrived in NA at the lowest point in our lives. We'd just about run out of ideas. What we needed most when we got here were new ideas...
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JFT April 10, 2018 Too busy
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Too busyPage 104 "We must use what we learn or we will lose it, no matter how long we have been clean." Basic Text, p. 85 After putting some clean time together, some of us have a tendency to forget what our most important priority is. Once a week or less we say, "I've gotta get to a meeting tonight. It's been...
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JFT April 09, 2018 Acting out
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Acting outPage 103 "We learn to experience feelings and realize they can do us no harm unless we act on them." IP No. 16, For the Newcomer Many of us came to Narcotics Anonymous with something less than an overwhelming desire to stop using. Sure, the drugs were causing us problems, and we wanted to be ri...
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JFT April 08, 2018 Happiness
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HappinessPage 102 "We come to know happiness, joy and freedom." Basic Text, p. 91 If someone stopped you on the street today and asked if you were happy, what would you say? "Well, gee, let's see... I have a place to live, food in the refrigerator, a job, my car is running... Well, yes, I guess I'm happy,"...
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JFT April 06, 2018 Growing honestly
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Growing honestlyPage 100 "On a practical level, changes occur because what's appropriate to one phase of recovery may not be for another." Basic Text, p. 105 When we first came to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us had no legitimate occupation. Not all of us suddenly decide we're going to become honest...
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JFT April 05, 2018 Identification
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IdentificationPage 99 "Someone finally knew the crazy thoughts that I had and the crazy things I'd done." Addicts often feel terminally unique. We're sure that no one used drugs like we did or had to do the things that we did to get them. Feeling that no one really understands us can keep us from recover...
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JFT April 04, 2018 Guarding our recovery
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Guarding our recoveryPage 98 "Remember that we... are ultimately responsible for our recovery and our decisions." Basic Text, p. 103 Most of us will face choices that challenge our recovery. If we find ourselves in extreme physical pain, for example, we will have to decide whether or not we will tak...
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JFT April 03, 2018 For you alone
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For you alonePage 97 "The idea of a spiritual awakening takes many different forms in the different personalities that we find in the fellowship." Basic Text, p. 49 Though we all work the same steps, each of us experiences the spiritual awakening resulting from them in our own way. The shape that spir...
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JFT April 02, 2018 Attraction
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AttractionPage 96 "Our public image consists of what we have to offer: a successful, proven way of maintaining a drug-free lifestyle." Basic Text, p. 75 Yes, we are attracting new members. More and more addicts are finding Narcotics Anonymous. But how do we treat our newest members when they arrive...
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JFT April 01, 2018 Love and addiction
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Love and addictionPage 95 "Some of us first saw the effects of addiction on the people closest to us. We were very dependent on them to carry us through life. We felt angry disappointed, and hurt when they found other interests, friends, and loved ones." Basic Text, p. 7 Addiction affected every area o...
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JFT March 31, 2018 Insides and outsides
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Insides and outsidesPage 93 "Our real value is in being ourselves." Basic Text, p. 105 As we work the steps, we're bound to discover some basic truths about ourselves. The process of uncovering our secrets, exposing them, and searching our characters reveals our true nature. As we become acquainte...
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JFT March 30, 2018 God-centeredness
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God-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 to die from our d...
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JFT March 29, 2018 Our own true will
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Our 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 we only paid wit...
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JFT March 28, 2018 Facing feelings
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Facing 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 were angry or depre...
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JFT March 27, 2018 Looking for the assets
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Looking 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, and neatly tuck...
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