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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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STRESS-It's a sobriety killer
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How do you get over the sudden urge to use after being sober for over 1 year? Sometimes I get such a strong urge just to feel that pipe in my hand, go through the ritual, feeling that invinceable, full of energy feeling again. I know I was using to fill that empty place inside me but I can't find a substitute t...
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Up Or Down
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Up Or Down "This is our road to spiritual growth. We change every day.... This growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer." Basic Text, pages 35-36 Our spiritual condition is never static; if it's not growing, it's decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress will l...
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Enough, enough
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"Something inside cries out, 'Enough, enough, I've had enough; and then they are ready to take that first and often most difficult step toward dealing with their disease." Basic Text, page 203 Have we really had enough? This is the crucial question we must ask ourselves as we prepare to wo...
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a real addict
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Hello, First of all: Sorry for my bad english. hopefully anybondy understand what i am trying to tell. i wonder if i am really addicted. i am clean for little more than three years. i was drinking and pot smoking whenever i had mony and time. sometimes i take cocaine and heroin. i decided to change someth...
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Weekender- Feelings of Guilt
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I've not really posted on here before, but post often on the Alanon site. I have an A BF who I struggle to maintain boundaries with. However, it has also come to my attention that perhaps I also have a problem with drugs. I have started a pattern where every couple of weeks I go out and "party"...
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I WENT WRONG SOMEWHERE
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WHEN I REFLECT BACK ON WHAT HAPPEN TO CAUSE MY RELAPSE I HAVE TO WONDER COULD I HAVE PREVENTED IT. OR WAS THE RESERVATION TO GET HIGH PLANTED SO DEEP IN MY SUB-CONSCIENCE THAT A RELAPSE WAS DESTINE TO HAPPEN...I TELL MYSELF PERHAPS IF I WOULD'VE SURRENDERED MORE OFTEN, LIKE SURRENDERING CONSTANTLY IN T...
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Needing a sponsor? I can't get one if I don't get to meetings!
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Hi all.. Just checkin in.. Sponsorship is so much a part of our program that not having one leaves a HUGE void.. I know this after over 20 yrs I moved to a new town and no dependable transpo nearby. I read, I came to this board and others around the net.. I pray.. what's been missing is actually calling to s...
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"Questions, questions that need answers..." Gandalf
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Hi Guys and Girls, I guess this is really for a moderator of this site. Is there a page that displays rules or guidelines for this site? As a new member I just want to make sure I'm not steppin' on anyone's toes. Some recovery sites don't allow you to post web addresses of other recovery sites, etc. Can you g...
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The Butterfly
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Hello everyone, I found this some time ago somewhere on the net and just wanted to share it. Peace, Dan The Butterfly "The butterfly is ever more blessed than other creatures of flight. Though all grace the heavens in the ecstasy of flight, the butterfly has known the drudgery of the crawl and th...
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Something Different
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"We could not live and enjoy life as other people do. We had to have something different and we thought we had found it in drugs." (BT Pg. 13) It seems like my whole life has been a never ending search for "something different." Maybe it's because there always seemed to be some...
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DONT FORGET TO HAVE SOME FUN
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Its healthy to go out and DO SOMETHING dont just sit around enjoy your recovery I am headed out to do some night fishing right now for catfish and striped bass anbd whatever else wants some of me LOL Tomorrow I gotta work helping my girlfriend move into her new house and Sunday I go gold dredging with my new...
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Before It's Too Late
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The recent death of one of our members here in Indianapolis, Gayla N. has touched me deeply. I didn't know Gayla very well, but I remember her exuberance, her zest for living, and her beautiful smile. Reading the news report of the accident that took her life, I thought about just how short life is and ho...
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growing pains
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I cannot seem to shake this depression. I finally stood up for myself and told Allen I was not going to be his human yo-yo anymore it is not fair for either of us. I am just at the point in my life where I am not willing to settle. I know what I want, and I am not settling for anything else. I can't say standing up f...
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