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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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BigV
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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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frear of failure and fear of success !!
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God whats an addict ?? me as an example means Im also afraid to succeed. "Something in our destructive personalities cries for failure" says the Text. I can thats true in my case even now at times. I get really tense and scared when Im sounding too good in my talk, when I get lot of applause in my...
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wanting to check in
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I love NA and I have had so many great things happen. The recovery around here is so dismal after 3 years of trying I am doing MBM and online, I am still staying clean and working the steps...just wanted to get that out there.. matto
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How to identify an addict - 12 Pre-recovery Steps
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1. Admitted we were powerless over nothing...that we could manage our lives perfectly and those of anyone else who would allow us.
2. Came to believe there was no power greater than ourselves and the rest of the world was insane.
3. Made a decision to have our loved ones and friends turn their wills an...
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Revision for IP#7 Am I an Addict?
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For Amusement Only! (Unless It Works) These are some questions that might be added to the ones already in the pamphlet: 1.) Have you ever been so paranoid that you thought people in FRONT of you were following you? 2.) Does your head snap around if a pill bottle rattles a block away? 3.) Have you ev...
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small tasks = big recovey
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Chop Wood, Carry Water "Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." Swami Sivananda Work. What does the word mean to you? Is it something to be avoided? Is it a means to an end? Is it the only appropriate focus of your attention and energ...
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Why are you Lurking?
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A lot of Lurkers here. The average thread gets 45 views and 3 responses, usually from the same 3 or 4 people. If you're a member then post a message, if not join up and post. If BigV and one or two others left there would be no board. Partisipate in your recovery, please share your experience strength and ho...
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SHOUT OUT TO TAHIR
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Whats up big dog where the heck are you?
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update
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i probally won't be at the meetings for awhile i have to go to therapy because they damage my spinal cord during surgery now i cant walk but i will get that back thanks for all your support though everything. i am still clean almost 13 months and feel great that way anyway love you all jayson cole
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Personal messages
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I just noticed that this board is not set up for personal messages, like the rest of the MIP boards are. The only option is to allow others to use your email address, which some wouldn't want to do (doesn't bother me) but a PM function would be a lot less intimidating for most. Some times there are things...
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life on lifes terms.
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hi family. ive run into a situation that ive let piss me off now all night. im really torn about my options and because i dont yet have a sponser im going to bounce it off the room. i was in a meeting there was a newcomer there that was completly fighting anything that was said. over an hour was spent trying t...
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E-bay alert
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hi folks, don't know if anyone is interested . there's a good chunk of NA history being sold on e-bay right now..jimmy Ks son is selling off his dads library as part of the clean up to his moms estate. the items are going pricey, but Ive spent much more on dope than anything Ive seen so far. just search narc...
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Isolated but wired
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Hi y'all, I spent 16 years incarcerated; I've been out 8. Now I live in the middle of nowhere and prefer these meetings. I've spent thousands on therapy, been sober a long time with the help from humans, which I believe are HP on Earth. Getting high was the alternative to blowing my brains out, so I ne...
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