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Just an old writing of mine...
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I wrote this "poem" between 30 to 60 days clean. Just recently found where I had it stored on my computer. Coming up on my three year anniversary in a month and a halfish...just a trip down memory lane for me, and I thought I'd share it...it's auto-biographical. There is an addict; her name i...
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more NA history on the block
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.this is a first edition very old. signed by a bunch of addicts. buy it now for 3600 bucks..dean ?
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Natural Highs
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Looking for the small things, sometimes we can find the best things 1. Falling in love. 2. Laughing so hard your face hurts. 3. A hot shower. 4. No lines at the supermarket. 5. A special glance. 6. Getting mail. 7. Taking a drive on a pretty road. 8. Hearing your favorite song on the radio. 9. Lying in bed li...
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Question about clean time
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I know this might be a touchy subject, but I think it's an important one. I also believe that a persons clean time is a matter between them, their sponsor, and their Higher Power. Having said that, when do we start counting clean time? It seems some people count from when they first come to recovery, disr...
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Love and conscience of animals..
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One of the posts someone said that addiction had reduced our love and consceince to that of animals. I find that interesting and wonder if anyone has any experience that is relateable and in recovery if we rebuild our ability to empathize with others...
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Narcisistic
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Many readings indicate that addicts are narcisits and self absorbed...just looking for opinions on this...
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Rise Above
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO2nqcN3EGg Take the light, undarken everything around me Call the clouds and listen closely I'm lost without you Call your name every day when I feel so helpless I've fallen down but I'll rise above this, rise above this Hate the mind, regrets are better left unsp...
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jake
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hello everyone my name is jake i am 19 years old living in minnesota with my girlfriend and my new born baby that is almost 4 months now. my sobriety has been going great so far, I am going on nine months and havent been happier. could someone fill me in on how you guys run these on-line meetings if someo...
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Im preparing for an amazing ride
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I am 12 days clean today. Seems like so little when you look at it; but inside it feels like a lot. I have been to a meeting everyday since I stopped using. I have never felt so welcomed anywhere. I was told that when I started going to meetings, to ask for phone numbers. I don't have to, I have walked out of eve...
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I AM NEW. LOOKING FOR CHAT FRIENDS.
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Hi, my name is Bella. I'm 21 and I live in PA. My cleandate is Feb. 10, 2008 and I just celebrated 6 mo's clean on August 10th. I'm new to the online chat rooms, but I'm excited to see how they work. My counselor told me they're an awesome way to get to a meeting when you can't leave your house. I'm hoping tha...
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GRATITUDE
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I've been thinking a lot about Gratitude lately. A guy I sponsor used this weekend and talking to him tonight made me SOOOO Grateful for the surrender I found that has made my own recovery possible. As a Spiritual Principle, Gratitude has what seems to me to be a nearly unique quality- it has the power to...
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dan h
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Okay...I got an issue...
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My homegroup. Best damn meeting in the Universe I must say... Well, here's the dealio. My homegroup is a very small, intimate meeting. About a year ago a meeting in the neighboring town (yet different area) closed. It had three homegroup members...two with 17 years clean, and the third having around...
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731 days today
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Somehow (with God's help) I have reached two years of sobreity today. After using drugs for 38 years without a single let up, i've turned my life around for the better. Getting divorced by my ex was the blow that finally made me realize my life had become unmanageable. I had worked the first step for 8 mon...
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.. -- Edited by tysonmike at 20:47, 2008-08-23
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I let staff know about the board problems
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It's been hanging up and not loading, getting errors and such may just be the server having trouble hope they can fix soon , apologies.
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seeing the familiar
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I am on step 1, and I KNOW that I am ABSOULTLY POWERLESS over my addiction. I think had I not gone to detox, that it might have taken me a bit longer to figure that out. I always rationalized in my mind things like.....well I don't do crack....im not a meth head...Im not homless.....Im not a prostitute.......
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Used this weekend
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Well, I went out Friday night and drank. Thought I could do that and stay away from the drugs. Told the guy I was going with that I just wanted to go out and have fun. Didn't want to feel bad the next day, etc. Sure. Well, needless to say it didn't turn out that way. As usual. Another couple came out with...
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Lonley Recovery
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I haven't posted on here in a while, i've got over 4 months clean and sober (my longest) i'm in a sober living home right now and everyone just went home for a week, i stayed because i don't want to risk going back there just yet, so i've gone from living with 14 people to being completely alone, and my sponso...
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Difficult People
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"By giving unconditional love...we become more loving, and by sharing spiritual growth we become more spiritual." Basic Text, page 203 Most of us have one or two exceptionally difficult people in our lives. How do we deal with such a person in our recovery? First, we take our own inventor...
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Friends,,,
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Ha,ha,ha,, found this on my whiteboard from an old friend of mine,,,, "Make a friend, its a GIFT Have a friend, its a GRACE Keep a friend, its a QUALITY But, have a friend Like YOU IT IS GREAT HONOR" "THEY SAY IT TAKES A MINUTE ...TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON, ...AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM,...
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How to cope with hate?
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hi, i found this board 3 weeks ago. and one week later i was going to my first aa meeting. the people have been very kind to me. i intodruced myself but i just told them things i thought fitting to the people in that meeting... at the moment i do a apprenticeship in a kind of residental school. breakfast, lun...
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So whats happening this weekend?
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I am off on another of my gold prospecting adventures bright an early in the morning so this evening getting everything loaded in the truck gotta get my dredge all put together since I have been working on it for 2 weeks now hoping to find gold on the Merced river I will get some pictures and post them next w...
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Alcohol
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I feel that I am done with the drugs- at least I have decided that they are a problem. But, as the weekend approaches, I think about my wine drinking. Do I have to give that up too? This is just a question I'm putting out there because I am posing it to myself.
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Thanks Vini
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Hey Vini, thanks for reaching out I'm doin' good, have been trying to assess where I stand in terms of my recovery just to see if everything's alright, especially after I got a using dream that was different in the sense that I use and use a lot and find myself stoned to the extreme in this dream. I shared th...
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Loss
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I haven't heard from a friend in montana in about a month (she and i did time together in the 90's) and it feels like a loss....everything i let go of has claw marks on it, ha. you'd think that after 16 years in an 8 by 10 foot cell i'd be accustomed to living with next to nothing in my world, but i crave contact....
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How Do YOU Spell Relief?
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Hi everyone, I wanted to ask a question just to get some other member's input. When I first came to NA and began trying to understand recovery, (over time we DO come to our own understanding of the Program) one of the things I noticed was that there were several people all talking about working the st...
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Need your experience
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There's a woman in my life who is codependent and wants to work the steps. I'm in another 12 step fellowship. What suggestions should I make to her about working a program of recovery? I am stable in my recovery, but some of the questions that apply to addiction don't apply to her, and I want to offe...
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Sanskrit Proverb For Serenity And Inner Peace
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Sanskrit ProverbLook to this day, The very life of life, In its brief course lies allThe realities and varieties of existence,The bliss of growth,The splendor of action,The glory of power.For yesterday is but a dream,And tomorrow is only a vision.But today well lived,Makes every ye...
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How can I walk into a wall with my eyes open?
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My name is Kathleen and I am and addict. I am an addict. I am an addict. Maybe if I write it enough times it will sink in and then, with the acknowledgement, I will then begin recovery. I am actually an alcoholic by trade, but I realized a long time ago how much it was affecting my life and stopped drinking. Mo...
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Life Can Really Suck...
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***WARNING*** If anyone is looking for Experience, Strength, and/or Hope...stop reading here. I've got today clean, backed by 2 days, 10 months, and 2 years. Not very much time really if you ask me...but no one's asked me that, so...my point of this post: I don't know why I'm still here. I've just left...
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