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JFT September 20 Courage to change
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"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."Serenity Prayer=Recovery involves change, and change means doing things differently. The problem is, many of us resist doing things differently; what w...
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JFT September 19 Fellowship
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In NA, our joys are multiplied by sharing good days; our sorrows are lessened by sharing the bad. For the first time in our lives, we dont have to experience anything alone.IP No. 16, For the Newcomer=When we practice using the steps and the other tools of our program to work through our hardships, w...
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JFT September 18 Honest relationships
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"One of the most profound changes in our lives is in the realm of personal relationships."Basic Text, p. 57=Recovery gives many of us relationships that are closer and more intimate than any weve had before. As time passes, we find ourselves gravitating toward those who eventually become our f...
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Recovery and the introvert
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I'm coming up on a year and it seems to be getting harder and harder. I'm struggling building and maintaining relationships. i shared last night and im feeling worse then I did and I don't know what to do. I feel alone and disconnected and angry. any suggestions would be great.
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JFT September 16 Emotional balance
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"Emotional 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 outlook on life, regardles...
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JFT September 15 Filling the emptiness
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"...we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, we'll be satisfied and everything will be alright."Basic Text, p. 80=In our addiction, we could never get enough drugs, or money, or sex, or anything else. Even too much was never enough! There was a spiritual emptiness i...
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JFT September 14 Secrets and reservations
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"Eventually 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 lives cloaked in thick, murky darknes...
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JFT September 13 Something different
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"We 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 we're not unique in feeling that way; we hear many addicts share the same thing. We searched all our lives for something to make us all right,...
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JFT September 12 New horizons
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"My 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 using. That fear is far...
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JFT September 11 Bend with the wind
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We 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 infinitely varied pleasures...
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Identifying At Meetings
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Hello Everybody. I have 1 year and 8 months clean. I haven't been able to get to many meetings in this time. I did go to a meeting last Monday. I am a very shy person in group setting so I couldnt share yet. I felt so self-conscious about that. I also am confused about how I should identify myself in mee...
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Dry Wedding
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I've got 5 months and some change clean time, and I'm getting married next summer. We want to have a dry wedding, but there's some resistance from other family members. We think we've got it settled, especially as the park where we'd like to host the reception BBQ doesn't allow alcohol. Just wonder...
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JFT September 10 More powerful than words
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"We 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?" We felt anxious and inadequate t...
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JFT September 9 Feet of clay
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"One 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 seem almost super-human...
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JFT September 8 Rebellion
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"We 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 thorough self-exam...
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JFT September 7 Resentment and forgiveness
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"Where 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, the more often well find someone steppin...
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JFT September 6 Regular meeting attendance
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"We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean." Basic Text, p. 9 = The NA program gives us a new pattern of living. One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance. For the newcomer, living clean is a brand-...
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Recovery and the introvert
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I'm coming up on a year and it seems to be getting harder and harder. I'm struggling building and maintaining relationships. i shared last night and im feeling worse then I did and I don't know what to do. I feel alone and disconnected and angry. any suggestions would be great.
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JFT September 5 Not hopelessly bad
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"We find that we suffer from a disease, not a moral dilemma. We were critically ill, not hopelessly bad." Basic Text, p. 16 = For many of us, Narcotics Anonymous was the answer to a personal puzzle of long standing. Why did we always feel alone, even in a crowd, we wondered? Why did we do so...
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JFT September 4 Cluttered spirits
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"We try to remember that when we make amends we are doing it for ourselves."Basic Text, p. 41=As long as we still owe amends, our spirits are cluttered with things we don't need. We're carrying the extra load of an apology owed, a resentment held, or unexpressed remorse. It's like having a messy hous...
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JFT September 3 Humility expressed by anonymity
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Humility is a by-product that allows us to grow and develop in an atmosphere of freedom and removes the fear of becoming known by our employers, families, or friends as addicts.Basic Text, pp. 75-76=Many of us may not have understood the idea that anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our trad...
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JFT September 2 Higher powered
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Daily practice of our Twelve Step program enables us to change from what we were to people guided by a Higher Power. Basic Text, p. 86 = Who have we been, and who have we become? There are a couple of ways to answer this question. One is very simple: We came to Narcotics Anonymous as addicts, our addic...
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JFT September 1 Real values
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"We become able to make wise and loving decisions based on principles and ideals that have real value in our lives." Basic Text, p. 105 = Addiction gave us a certain set of values, principles we applied in our lives. "You pushed me," one of those values told us, "so I push...
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Disfunctional families
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I am new here n also new in the program., i really dont know whether i should ask this or not., anyways my question is ( n also i am a little confused)., if i am born in a disfunctional family., are my parents responsible for my disease to grow?
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JFT August 31 Gratitude
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"Hopeless living problems have become joyously changed. Our disease has been arrested, and now anything is possible."Basic Text, p. 106=The NA program has given us more freedom than we ever dreamed possible. Sometimes, though, in the daily routine, we lose track of how much we've been given. ...
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JFT August 30 Doing good, feeling good
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"We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that weve been doing better than we've been feeling."Basic Text, p.43=The way we treat others often reveals our own state of being. When we are at peace, we're most likely to treat others with respect and compassion. However, when we...
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JFT August 29 Don't look back
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"The steps offer a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse. Our futures are changed because we don't have to avoid those who we have harmed. As a result... we receive a new freedom that can end isolation." Basic Text, p. 39=Many of us come to Narcotics Anonymous full of regrets about our p...
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JFT August 28 The light of exposure
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"These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure."Basic Text, p.32=The Fifth Step asks us to share our true nature with God, with ourselves, and with another human being. It doesn't encourage us to tell everyone every little secret about ourselves. It doesn't ask us to disclose to th...
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JFT August 27 Choosing life
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"Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary."Basic Text, p. 15=Active addiction is a smoldering death-wish. Each of us courted death every time we used. Our lifestyles, too, put us at risk. The life of an addict is sold cheaply with every day and every dose.In recovery, the...
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JFT August 26 Tenth Step inventory
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"We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."Step Ten=A daily Tenth Step keeps us on a sound spiritual footing. While each member asks different questions, some questions have been found to be helpful to almost everyone. Two key Tenth Step questions are,...
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