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We are addicts seeking recovery
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From the NA book ; We used drugs to cover our feelings, and did whatever was neccessary to get drugs. Many of us woke up sick, unable to make it to work or went to work loaded. This is found in the "Why are we here " section of the N.A book and it goes further into detail of what we did that got us here....
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january24 just for today
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January 24 From Isolation To Connection " Our disease isolated us... Hostile, resentful, self-centered, and self-seeking, we cut ourselves off from the outside world." Basic Text p. 3-4 Addiction is an isolating disease, closing us off from society, family, and self. We hid. We lied....
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man what a week
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discouraged Current mood: annoyed man it has been a rough week last week but I am doing my best to hol...
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A dream I had in 1983
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I was in long term treatment my first time , I had a dream one night several months into the program. I was canoeing down a stream and the water started getting swift, I tried paddling towards shore but the current got stronger and stronger pulling me towards a falls. I could hear the crashing of the falls...
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january 23 just for today
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January 23 Serenity Check " Lack of daily maintenance can show up in many ways."Basic Text p. 91 Ever had a perfect stranger remark about how great the weather was, only to reply "It stinks"? When this happens, we are probably suffering from a lack of daily maintenance in our pro...
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relapse ?
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what is something that has helped you guys get back on track after relapse? the only way i find my way back is if something bad happens.
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reflections for beginners
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Reflections for Beginners from 'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days' - by Shelly Marshall the author of 'Day By Day' & other Meditation Books THIS BOOK IS NOW OUT OF PRINT Right now you don't have to pretend to be someone you are not. You don't have to pretend to be strong (if you're a man) or weak (if you'r...
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im a wife...
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to my hubby who has an issue with percocet. I don't know WHAT to do about it anymore. I am trying SO hard to support him and have been doing it for about a year now. IF he doesn't have them he sleeps all the time and when he does have them he plays on his game 24/7 and forgets he has a family. I love this man but...
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january22 just for today
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January 22 The School Of Recovery " This is a program for learning." Basic Text p. 16 Learning in recovery is hard work. The things we most need to know are often the hardest to learn. We study recovery to prepare ourselves for the experiences life will give us. As we listen to others share in m...
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january 21 just for today
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January 21 Unity And Uniformity " Unity is a must in Narcotics Anonymous." Basic Text p. 60 Unity is not uniformity. Unity springs from the fact that we have unity of purpose-to recover, and to help others stay clean. Even so, we often find that while we strive to fulfill the same purpose, ou...
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my serenity prayer everybody read
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my high power,(God), grant me the serenity to accept the past, courage to change the present, and the wisdom to know the difference between your will and mine. Amen. i use this in my everyday life. not just as a addict but my personal life too. when i got cancer this prayer come easier for me than the real s...
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A member shares... [passing it on]
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Here's a beautiful share by a member forwarded by another member to me Sure shows how NA works, one addict's share reaching out to the innermost hearts of others wherein lies the healing for many of us... I'm passing this on too as it did affect my recovery right here right now at this very moment to read t...
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january 20 just for today
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January 20 One Promise, Many Gifts " Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise, and that is freedom from active addiction..." Basic Text, p. 102 Imagine how it might be if we had arrived at the doors of Narcotics Anonymous, desperate, wanting to stop using drugs, only to be met by a sales...
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God of my Understanding,,,
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Sometimes i wish i had a Great Shaman who I can call at Will, to share painful feelings and get an immediate answer,,,, and calm a disturbed mind to Still, sometimes i wish that Great Shaman will lead me, to where ive never been before,, where clean time and recovery still exist, but everything els...
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what na meeting mean to me
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The serenity prayer simply asks a God of your understanding to help you accept things you are not in control of, allow you to manage those things that you are able to manage, and the knowledge to know when you can and when you can't. The twelve steps is a process of recovery and when just getting clean the f...
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lonely up here in the arctic,,need sponser
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Hi, I'm a woman working in the arctic that just got out of treatment for prescrition drugs. In the out post town I live in is very little support for after care and sponsers. I'm, Alaskan Native and white, have one of the better jobs in the village as a social worker, and hunt, fish and live a mostly out door...
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refuge
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i would love to be able to come into my house and feel at home. i would love it to be a place of rest and tranquility. if not this, then at least my own room. i'm 17 and i live with my mother. we always go up and down with our emotions. right now i'm trying to quit using and it dosn't help to have your mother be a pa...
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january 19 just for today
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January 19 Making Mountains Into Molehills " When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably." Basic Text, p. 96 Some of us seem to make mountains out of molehills with our problems. Even those of us who've found some measure of serenity have probably bl...
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thoughts of using...help!
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Hi family...im becci (pronounced Becky) and i am new to this web site...my sponser suggested i try to meet some new people, as im feeling a little alone. I live in a small town and there are close to no people my age in recovery. I have just celebrated my 1st year clean and sober and Im thinking about using...
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using is not an option, just for today
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rollar coaster, up, down, up, down... thats life thankful for the not so good stuff on my plate, that allows me to know when it IS good. if i couldn't feel a pinch, then i wouldn't feel a kiss. Feeling alone, yet knowing i am not. Truly i have a dis-ease, lonliness is at the heart of it, even though i am surrou...
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finding balance
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Finding Balance The goal of recovery is balance-- that precious middle ground. Many of us have gone from one extreme to another: years of taking care of everyone but ourselves, followed by a time of refusing to focus on anyone's needs but our own. We may have spent years refusing to identify, feel, and...
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this is for everyone please read
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for everyone that has a birthday this month congrats why to go. if you just started and clean just for today good for you that is a good start. i have 196 days today and i feel great about it. i know that i wouldnt probally use again. keep coming back because the program does work. work the steps and the progr...
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about the books
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if you want infromation about the keep it simple or language of letting go or keeping it simple or another things that i post on here you can email me at senseijaysoncole@gmail.com and all get it for you. the big book and the basic book i know were to get those online too. -- Edited by senseijc at 00:05, 2...
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january 18 just for today
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January 18 The Simple Inventory " Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, our attitudes, and our relationships on a regular basis." Basic Text, p. 41 The daily inventory is a tool we can use to simplify our lives. The most comp...
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Questions?
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What kind of sponsor would yours be if he/she were to never question your motives on anything you did? Is that what you want in a sponsor?What if your sponsor was someone that may have more information on a situation than you know about and is willing to confront you before it become a serious proble...
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chronic illness
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Hello all, I'm new to NA. I'm an addict and I have been clean for 2 weeks.
Like a lot of people, I began using after being prescribed legitimate medicines for a painful, chronic medical condition. It's something I've lived with since the age of 13 and something I will continue to deal with for the rest o...
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january 17 just for today
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January 17 Forgiveness " As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving. At least we know that we are no longer intentionally making life miserable for people." Basic Text, p. 38 In our addiction we often treated others badly, sometimes deliberately finding ways to mak...
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HEY JOHN YO YO YO CALLING JOHN
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whats up with the meetings we need to get the schedule figured out we have people who want to chair meetings waiting and we have others who need to turn over the chair who have other things in life calling them so can we get this resolved my brutha from anoutha muthah Thank you Sir
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before and after
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cannot figure out how to put a opic in -- Edited by justme at 13:20, 2008-01-15
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january 16 just for today
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January 16 Make That Call! " We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected.... [But] our fellow members do understand us."Basic Text, p. 31 We need our fellow NA members-their experience, their friendship, their laughter, their guidance, and much,...
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