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JFT November 2 Living with unresolved problems
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"It makes a difference to have friends who care if we hurt."Basic Text, p. 56=For most of our problems, the solution is simple. We call our sponsor, pray, work the steps, or go to a meeting. But what about those situations where the burden is ongoing and there's no end in sight?Most of us know what it'...
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JFT November 1 Awakening
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"God helps us as we help each other."Basic Text, p. 52=Our addiction caused us to think almost exclusively of ourselves. Even our prayers--if we prayed at all--were self-centered. We asked God to fix things for us or get us out of trouble. Why? Because we didn't want to live with the problems wed c...
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JFT October 31 Our relationship with our higher power
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"Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves."Basic Text, p. 99=Working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous gives us a fresh start in life and some guidance for living in the world. But the step...
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JFT October 30 Courage
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"Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future."Basic Text, p. 96=Narcotics Anonymous is no place for the faint of heart! Facing life on life's terms without the use of drugs isn't always easy. Recovery requires more than hard work; it requires a liberal dose of cour...
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JFT October 29 Living in the now
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"Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future."Basic Text, pp. 94=Thoughts of how bad it was--or could be--can consume our hopes for recovery. Fantasies of how wonderful it was--or could be--can divert us from taking action in the real world. That's why, in Nar...
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JFT October 28 Attitudes
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"We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes."Basic Text, p. 55=Ever have a day when everything seems to be working against you? Do you go through periods when you are so busy taking people's inventories you can barely stand yourself? What about when you find yourself snapping at your cowo...
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HEY where have i been lol
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Wandering the globe>? no Lost in a maze? almost Comatose? nearly well im still alive thats all i know good to see a few of you still hanging around. Im doing the Hep C harvoni right now its gotten rough and I had the Ablation done on my heart about 3 months ago so its been a roller coaster. I'll be back lat...
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JFT October 27 Living in the present
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"We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today."Basic Text, p. 29=For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives aren't the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past. The...
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JFT October 26 The path to self-acceptance
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"The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery."IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance=Our addiction has been a source of shame to many of us. We have hidden ourselves from others, sure that if anyone got to know who we really were they would reject u...
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JFT October 25 Principles before personalities
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"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."Tradition Twelve="Principles before personalities." Many of us chant these words along with the reader whenever the Twelve Traditions are read. The fact that these wo...
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JFT October 24 Responsibility
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We are not responsible for our disease, only for our recovery. As we begin to apply what we have learned, our lives begin to change for the better.Basic Text, p. 91=The further we go in recovery, the less we avoid responsibility for ourselves and our actions. By applying the principles of the Narc...
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JFT October 23 Surrender
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By surrendering control, we gain a far greater power.Basic Text, p. 44=When we were using, we did everything we could to run things our way. We used every scheme imaginable to bring our world under control. When we got what we wanted, we felt powerful, invincible; when we didn't, we felt vulne...
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JFT October 20 Freedom to choose
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Enforced morality lacks the power that comes to us when we choose to live a spiritual life.Basic Text, p. 45=In our active addiction, many of us lived our lives by default. We were unwilling or unable to make choices about how we wanted to act, what we preferred to do, or even where we would live. We...
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New to NA (this site)
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Hi All, I'm new to this particular site but not to NA. This site seems a bit inactive unless I'm doing something wrong. In the forum stats, it says there were 152 member views today alone and yet I don't see any posts for today. Is that common here? If so, I may choose a more active NA message board. Thanks al...
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JFT October 19 Standing for something
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...we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us.Basic Text, p. 88=In our active addiction, we were prepared to compromise everything we believed in just to get our hands on more drugs. Whether we stole from our families and friends, sold ourselves, or l...
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JFT October 18 We all belong
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Although politics makes strange bedfellows, as the old saying goes, addiction makes us one of a kind.Basic Text, p. 87=What a mixture of folks we have in Narcotics Anonymous! In any given meeting on any given night, well find a variety of people who probably never would have sat down in a room togeth...
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JFT October 17 The "truth"
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Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth.Basic Text, p. 94=Many of us thought we could recognize The Truth. We believed the truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily and without question. The real truth, however, was tha...
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JFT October 16 The simplest prayer
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...praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.Step Eleven=How do we pray? With little experience, many of us don't even know how to begin. The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated.We came to Narcotics Anonymous because of our drug addiction...
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JFt October 15 Choices
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We did not choose to become addicts.Basic Text, p. 3=When we were growing up, all of us had dreams. Every child has heard a relative or neighbor ask, What do you want to be when you grow up? Even if some of us didn't have elaborate dreams of success, most of us dreamed of work, families, and a future o...
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JFT October 14 The end of loneliness
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With the love that I am shown in Narcotics Anonymous, I have no excuse for loneliness.=Addiction is a lonely disease. We may be surrounded by people but, sooner or later, our addiction drives a wedge between us and even our closest loved ones. Many of us are driven to Narcotics Anonymous by a despe...
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JFT October 13 Making a difference
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Words cannot describe the sense of spiritual awareness that we receive when we have given something, no matter how small, to another person.Basic Text, p. 104=Sometimes it seems as though there is so much wrong with the world that we might as well forget trying to make a difference. After all, we th...
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JFT October 12 Being right
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"When we admit that our lives have become unmanageable, we don't have to argue our point of view...We no longer have to be right all the time."Basic Text, p. 58=Nothing isolates us more quickly from the warmth and camaraderie of our fellow NA members than having to be right. Insecure, we pretend to b...
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JFT October 11 Eyeglasses and attitudes
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"Our best thinking got us into trouble...Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes."Basic Text, p. 55 = In active addiction, the world probably looked like a horrible place. Using helped us tolerate the world we saw. Today, however, we understand that the world's c...
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JFT October 10 Consequences
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"Before we got clean, most of our actions were guided by impulse.Today, we are not locked into this type of thinking."Basic Text, p. 90=Ever been tempted to do something even when you knew the results would be disastrous?Ever thought about how much it was going to hurt to do what you were tempted to do,...
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JFT October 9 Order
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"We emphasize setting our house in order because it brings us relief."Basic Text, p. 97=Focusing on what others are doing can provide momentary relief from having to take a look at ourselves.But one of the secrets of success in Narcotics Anonymous is making sure our own house is in order.So what does...
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JFT October 8 A new pattern of living
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"We suspect that if we do not use what we have, we will lose what we have."Basic Text, p. 78=Addiction gave a pattern to our lives, and with it a meaning--a dark, diseased meaning, to be sure, but a meaning nonetheless. The Narcotics Anonymous recovery program gives us a new pattern of living to replace...
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JFT October 7 Depending on our higher power
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"As recovering addicts, we find that we are still dependent, but our dependence has shifted from the things around us to a loving God and the inner strength we get in our relationship with Him."Basic Text, pp. 71=For many addicts, rebelliousness is second nature. We didn't want to depend on anyon...
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JFT October 5 Ask for mercy, not justice
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"Many of us have difficulty admitting that we caused harm for others...We cut away our justifications and our ideas of being a victim."Basic Text, p. 38=Our lives are progressing nicely. Things are going good, and each year in recovery brings more material and spiritual gifts. We may have a lit...
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JFT October 6 Amends without expectations
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"Projections about actually making amends can be a major obstacle both in making the list and in becoming willing."Basic Text, p. 39=The Eighth Step asks us to become willing to make amends to all persons we have harmed. As we approach this step, we may wonder what the outcome of our amends will be. ...
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JFT October 4 Thirty-day wonders
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"When we first begin to enjoy relief from our addiction, we run the risk of assuming control of our lives again. We forget the agony and pain that we have known.:Basic Text, p. 50=Many of us have been "thirty-day wonders." We were desperate and dying when we showed up at our first NA meeting. We ide...
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