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Letting Go of Control
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The rewards from detachment are great: serenity; a deep sense of peace; the ability to give and receive love ion self-enhancing, energizing ways; and the freedom to find real solutions to our problems. Letting go of our need to control can set us and others free. It can set our Higher Power free to sen...
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Recovery Wisdom
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Came upon this reflection this morning... Just sharing it thinking it might help another like it helped me today... Almost everyone wants something/or nothing. Bargains attract. Finding a good value excites us, and we share the news quickly. Wanting anything for free is human nature perhaps. Ho...
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Redemption
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Next time I'm having a bad day or a tough time with something I'm going to try and remember this quote I heard in a movie tonight "Redemption, sometimes you have to go thru hell to get it"..
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responsibility
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MY recovery is MY resposibility...my mantra lately yesterday was 16 months clean and sober for me :) thanks to you for my recovery I gave out 5 white key tags to the newcomers last night :) that is a gift in itself..shows me nothing has changed out there..i'm gonna stay here! so...instead of keep comin...
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New to this site and have no idea how to use it
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Hey. I am new this site and not real good with a computer so I'm hoping someone can help out.I went into treatment programs as a teenager and at age 23 finally got sober.At age 38 I relasped and I am trying to get it back together.I'm not really sure how to get into meetings on this site and are there online s...
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2 New chair people for the weekends they are
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Saturday - Gnu-You Sunday - wantneeda Thank you both for your support chairing those meetings they are often quite full and I know these 2 folks have some wonderful recovery to share.
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the truth of the matter
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I relapsed feb 13 my pride is standing in the way of going back and the lack of support in the area concerns me as well I have been in the rooms for a solid 3 years and I reach out and still stand alone called 8 different ppl BEFORE I picked up I am not sure what to do
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The 5th Step?
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Well i've finally finished writing my fourth step. After 4 or 5 months, I have gone through both my character flaws and my attributes. It's a little scary thinking about digging down to the root cause of all my flaws, but i am ready to move forward. My sponsor and I have arranged to get together next weeke...
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5 months clean
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One day at a time, been awhile, meetings and work, plus fishing not much time to keep up in lifes other connections, hope you all are in good spirits with the man upstairs. Peace to all Tony
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having problems with another addict
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I am new to this on the computer. I have a finacee who is an addict and uses alot more. He has been clean for a while and he is on probation. He just recently went back out and I don't know what to do. I talked to my sponsor and she said that she we call his po if that was her. She told me to pray on it and to see how...
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white keytag
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I am out of town on business. Somehow, I thought dranking sounded like a good idea last night. Almost a year and half down the tubes. It was not worth it.Today is my new clean day. 90 in 90 as soon as I get back in town.
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The Universe is Crazy
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Last Thursday I decided to leave the program I'm in.. the relapse I had and some other things tha I was dealing with built up and took over me and I decided I didn't want to be clean anymore.. so I pawned some of my things and bought a bus ticket to Denver and left the program really angry and cussing at the sta...
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Hanging in there
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I was so happy when I found this online forum because there aren't very many meetings in my area. I found it about an hour ago, found myself struggling with what to say ( i have a need to be the perfect writer/speaker - drawing people in, motivating, capturing, enrapturing & mesmerizing them.) and w...
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New and wanting to introduce myself
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Hi My name is Wendy and I do not know if I have a problem or not. I have been on Vicodin or something close to it called Norco now for about three years for one thing or another. I recently have been diagnosed with Systemic Lupus and Fibromyalgia which means I am in constant pain. My prescription is fo...
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this is jaysoncole
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this is jayson i have come along way since i first come in here and belive me sometimes that is saying alot. i come in here ten months ago because the courts order me to go to meetings or i dont get my son back. i did it then i found this meeting and it help when i got so sick and couldnt go to other meetings. then...
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growing up clean
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Today is a good day as i have been able to watch my kids grauate high school last year now my son last week graduated from the ARMY my oldest well he is my pride for he has taken a 3 year cake i get to give him one next tuesday i have 5 kids the 2 oldest have the disease one in jail one has been out of prison 1 year with...
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Love And Addiction JFT 4/1/2008
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Love And Addiction "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, page 7 Addiction affected ever...
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Babe your not lost
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I listen to this video and i think of my higher power talking to me and to all of us. " And the worlds crashing down and you can't unbare the cross, baby your not lost " just some of the lyrics " cause you are not alone I am always there with you, and we'll get lost together till the light comes p...
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JUST FOR TODAY (4-18-2008)
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"I Understand" "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 particul...
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Owning Who We Are, As We Are...
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In analysis, you are confronted by your qualities and cannot disown them, though you may try to. We aren't all in formal analysis, but the Twelve Step program does introduce us to the personal inventory. In this exercise of introspection, we come to know ourselves. We often don't like who we see, but u...
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starting over
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first i would like to thank god for giving me one more chance. i'm on day one again and i'm so scared. i can't believe i'm back here again. help please!!
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I ran across a couple of creatures the other day
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http://blip.tv/file/817730 The other video there is a friend of mine dredging thats my dredge in the background with the yellow floats we were running the air off mine sorta like scuba diving but without tanks there an air compressor attached to my motor -- Edited by BigV at 00:23, 2008-04-12
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April 9, Just for Today
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April 9 Acting Out "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 proble...
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new..questions..am I in the right place??
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hi..forgive me if i am not too good at this message board thing..i am new to this all. I don't even know if i belong here actually. a bit of history..I was injuryed in 2002 ans have been on prescribed pain meds ever since..I have had a chroic pain problem since 2002..then in march (last month)..after many...
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too good to be true
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last night a girl in the program who got her wisdom teeth out had vicodin prescribed to her and she gave me some last night, i was so caught off guard.. i felt sick and i kept going back in forth in my mind about using it.. and i held onto it for about 3 hours before i decided to fuck up, and i did fuck up and i feel s...
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What do you do to distract yourself from a craving?
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Hi, I'm one week clean/sober and am in trouble right now. After I get home from work is the time when I REALLY start craving and it being Friday makes it even harder (it's the weekend - time to party). Just wondering what some of you use to distract yourself from an intense craving. I've been using food...
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a problem
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hello all....i am, like you all, a recovering addict, clean for 6 months from my drugs of choice vicodin and tequila....or whatever the drs. would give me for my chronic pain problems.... this is my 3rd, and last, recovery...i am 51 yrs old and cannot do it again... my husband and i have been married nea...
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Hi...want to introduce myself
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I am so glad to have found this forum. I am 44 years old, married mother of 2. I am really struggling right now. I have used alcohol and substances since I was 15 years old. But I am having a really hard time describing myself as an addict or alcoholic. I have it in my head that an addict/alcoholic is som...
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60 days
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I'll have 60 days on wednesday.. for a while i didn't even care.. i've felt horrible the last 2 months and just wanting to use and planning my escape from the program (hard to do when you have no money, car, and you are over 3,000 miles from home) but something amazing happend yesterday, i had a good day, i w...
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i need more people at meetings
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i have been at all the meetings this week and i have been doing the chairing all week and i have been in the hospital and very sick but im still in the room doing what i need to do to keep me clean. but i havent seen much of no one going to the meetings anymore whats going on with that i want more people at the meeti...
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