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March 30, Just for Today
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March 30 God - Centeredness "Gradually as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope."Basic Text p. 92 What a glorious thing to have hope! Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us lived lives of utter hopelessness. We believed we were destined to d...
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March 29, Just for Today
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March 29 Our Own True Will "God's will for us consists of the very things we most value. God's will... becomes our own true will for ourselves."Basic Text p. 46 It's human nature to want something for nothing. We may be ecstatic when a store cashier gives us back change for a twenty though we o...
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March 28, Just for Today
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March 28 Facing Feelings "We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic."Basic Text p. 29 While we were using, many of us were unable or unwilling to feel many emotions. If we were happy, we used to make us happier. If we were an...
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Visit to my Daughter
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I had a visit with my Daughter for a few days. She is in University, myself and my wife live in another country so it is not often we get to visit her. It was so nice to visit her as a responsible parent, someone that she could look up to rather than be embarrassed of what I might do or say. We just hung out, ate at...
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New HERE
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i HAVE RELAPSED AFTER 3 1/2 YEARS AND NOW HAVE 63 DAYS CLEAN..STILL STRUGGLING WITH THE DESIRE TO USE AND HAVING A HARD TIME MOTIVATING INTO MY RECOVERY..I BADLY WANT TO STAY CLEAN AND THIS TIME AROUND I LOST MY JOB OF 21 YRS..POSSIBLY MY NURSING LICENSE AND REELING TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET MY LIFE...
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Bangalore Area Convention !!
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nice time ,, nice setting,, nice people !! had a great experience !!
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online sponser?
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hey guys im new to all this online meetings and such! i have one hell of a time trying to stay clean on my own and it never works out for me!! So here i am willing to try anything!! Its hard for me to get out of the house right now and go to live meetings. SO i was wondering if there was anyone who would be willing to...
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Have a HAppy Easter
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March 27, Just for Today
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March 27 Looking For The Assets "In accordance with the principles of recovery we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other"Basic Text p. 11 How many times in our recovery have we misunderstood the behavior of another, immediately formed a judgment, applied a label, and n...
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March 26, Just for Today
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March 26 Trusting A Sponsor-Worth The Risk "In seeking a sponsor, most members look for someone they feel they can learn to trust, someone who seems compassionate"IP No. 11, "Sponsorship, Revised" The idea of sponsorship may be new to us. We have spent many years without dire...
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March 25, Just for Today
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March 25 I Can't, But We Can "From the isolation of our addiction, we find a fellowship of people with a common bond... Our faith, strength, and hope come from people sharing their recovery..."Basic Text, pg.94-95 Admit no weakness, conceal all shortcomings, deny every failure, go it al...
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March 24, Just for Today
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March 24 Letting Go Of The Past "It is not where we were that counts, but where we are going."Basic Text, pg.22 When we first find recovery, some of us feel shame or despair at calling ourselves "addicts." In the early days, we may be filled with both fear and hope as we struggle to f...
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trouble staying clean
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i guess i should say trouble staying clean, i've been clean now nearly 6 months..i'm on my third recovery, alcohol and narcotics, am 51 yrs old, mother of three, but everyday of the last 6 months have been hard for me...i know it's hard for us all, but i guess i was hoping this last recovery, and it is my las...
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back to NA
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I went to NA meetings when I was younger for drug and alcohol problems, but it's been a long time since I've joined any kind of NA group. I'm 20 years old, and I was in complete denial until a good friend of mine told me I have a problem with drugs. That made me look at my past and really think about things, and n...
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March 19, Just for Today
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March 19 Something Valuable To Share "A simple, honest message of recovery from addiction rings true."Basic Text p. 50 You're in a meeting. The sharing has been going on for some time. One or two members have described their spiritual experiences in an especially meaningful way. Anothe...
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A Treatable Illness
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"Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs." Basic Text, page 3 At our first meeting, we may have been taken aback at the way members shared about how the disease of addiction had affected their lives. We thought to ourselves, "Disease? I've just got a drug proble...
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March 23, Just for Today
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March 23 God's Gift "We do the footwork and accept what's being given to us freely on a daily basis."Basic Text pg. 46 Our relationship with our Higher Power is a two-way street. In prayer, we speak and God listens. When we meditate, we do our best to listen for the will of our Higher Power. We k...
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March 22, Just for Today
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March 22 The Principle Of Self-Support "In our addiction, we were dependent upon people, places, and things. We looked to them to support us and supply the things we found lacking in ourselves."Basic Text pg. 67 In the animal kingdom, there is a creature that thrives on others. It is calle...
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March 21, just for today
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March 21 A Treatable Illness "Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs."Basic Text p. 3 At our first meeting, we may have been taken aback at the way members shared about how the disease of addiction had affected their lives. We thought to ourselves, "Disease? I...
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Mom needs help
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I am not sure I am in the right place. But I am looking for a chatroom to help me with my soon to be 19 yr. old son. I think he is drinking and smoking too much. He just lost a good friend in a car accident and I am freaking. Any advice?
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March 20, just for today
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"Most of us have no trouble admitting that addiction had become a destructive force in our lives. Our best efforts resulted in ever greater destruction and despair. At some point, we realized that we needed the help of some Power greater than our addiction."Basic Text p. 24 Most of us know...
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March 18, Just for Today
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March 18 The Full Message "There is a special feeling for addicts when they discover that there are other people who share their difficulties, past and present."Basic Text p. 53 The wealth of our recovery is too good to keep to ourselves. Some of us believe that when we talk in meetings, we s...
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March 17, Just for today
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March 17 True Courage "Those who make it through these times show a courage not their own."Basic Text p. 82 Before coming to NA, many of us thought we were brave simply because we had never experienced fear. We had drugged all our feelings, fear among them, until we had convinced ourselves t...
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March 16, Just for today
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March 16 Inventory "The purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to sort through the confusion and the contradiction of our lives so that we can find out who we really are."Basic Text p. 27 Using addicts are a confused and confusing bunch of people. It's hard to tell from one mi...
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forgot my password
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just thought I would drop in and let you know I am okay I am not active in the program right now but I am ok
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Went to a bachelor party tonight
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of course all the fellers were drinkin but at least not like I used to it was like so controlled HAH one guy asked me if I was drinking and told him nope its been awhile he said he'd been slowing down but his bloated face tells another story. My girls in Las Vegas having a great time I called to see how she was sh...
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Felt like Sharing my joyous experience...
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I feel so much better after having come back from our area convention. It was a great, enlightening & breakthrough experience, being part of this convention.
I overcame a few of my blocks that continued to haunt me from my active addiction, and yes, the way I found freedom from this anxiety and f...
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March 15 Just for today
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March 15 Feeling A "Part Of" "The get-togethers after our meetings are good opportunities to share things that we didn't get to discuss during the meeting."Basic Text p. 29 Active addiction set us apart from society, isolating us. Fear was at the core of that alienation. We be...
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March 14, just for today
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March 14 Relationships "Also, our inventories usually include material on relationships."Basic Text p. 29 What an understatement this is! Especially in later recovery, entire inventories may focus on our relationships with others. Our lives have been filled with relationships wi...
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Need sponsor advice!
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Probally totally taboo subject here but my sister will not ask within the program and I have very grave concerns over this, so please forgive this "normie" for nosing in on a in program issue! My sister is within the program and I do whatever I can to support her sobriety, I provide nothing co...
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