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New NA meeting in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
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We are starting a new open NA meeting in Slippery Rock, PA called "It's a Brand New Day." We are hoping that everyone in the Butler, Grove City, New Castle, Ellwood City, Evans City, Zelinopole, and nearby communities will come and share in this with us. We will meet every Thursday starti...
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Amanda has 6 months clean!!
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Congratulations Amanda on 6 months clean!!! Blue - 1/2 a cake! It's blue so we don't have to be. When we are blue, we can be like BB King, so you don't have to sing the blues to see blue skies. The color of our Basic Text. Hopefully, we've seen one, opened one, better yet, read one by now. 6 months no blunts. Ho...
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for the new comers
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october 23 just for today
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October 23 Surrender "By surrendering control, we gain a far greater power."Basic Text, p.43 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; wh...
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Emotions Run Amok in Sleep-Deprived Brains
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"While we predicted that the emotional centers of the brain would overreact after sleep deprivation, we didn't predict they'd overreact as much as they did," Walker said. "They became more than 60 percent more reactive to negative emotional stimuli. That's a whopping increaset...
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Poking my nose back in
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Hi Friends, I just wanted to let you all know I have been poking my head back into the chatroom again to see how things are going. As those of you who have been around a while know, I used to participate there quite a bit. I left when my conscience would no longer let me participate; I was feeling worse about b...
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HI KELI :-)
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Hi Keli, been some time since you posted, that's unusual for a few days to pass without you posting Hope all is well with you and loved ones. Is anybody heard from Keli lately?
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Love Notes (non Na approved,, read only if you want,,)
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WHY IS LOVE SO PAINFUL? It is quite ironical but you will often find lovers in a state of extreme pain. To love is a joy. But some lovers are like that. It is painful for them at times. Not that that deters them from being in love. But they experience pain nevertheless and continue to bear it, suffer thro...
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Selfishness
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So i copy and pasted this from a message i wrote on another site i post on because i'm too lazy to type it again, and i don't know what i've told you guys about my recent past or not cuz i've left you outta loop, so if there is anything in here you didn't know then yeah, that's what has just happend to me recently...
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Wedding Picture Slideshow
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[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=ihqhaatglws] Hope you enjoy, looks like a mobster, ganster gathering to me LOL
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Ken H had 5 months clean yesterday!!!
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Congratulations Ken!!! Love and Hugs to ya!!!
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Listen to the lyrics
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ "What I've done " In this farewell there's no blood there's no alibi coz I've drawn regret from the truth of thousand lies So let mercy come and wash away What I've done I face myself to cross-out what I've become erase myself and let go of what...
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Keli has 90 DAYS!!!
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Congratulations Keli on 90 days of MIRACLES!!! Red - Stoplight, stop & look at your program. Thank God we're not dead. We should have RED our Basic Text by now. The color our eyes used to be when we got high, now they are red because we have feelings and we can cry today. 90 days. No slips, dips, or acid t...
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how do i join an online meeting?
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i am brand new here. i have ben trying to make it to my first physical meeting all week but i am really scared. i didn't know there was an online meeting until now, and i really want to check it out asap. how do i get into the 'meeting', is it a chat room or something? i know it's every night at 10 eastern time but...
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Hello all....new member here
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Hello, my name is Ed and I am and addict. I just thought I would join in with you all this morning. I've been lurking for several months now. I am 92 days clean after a 25 year constant high. I started off with marijuana and it was my drug of choice until I entered the world of opiates. Yep......a couple of rup...
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to the families and all to read
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this letter is by senseijc aka jayson cole An Open Letter To My Family I am a drug-user. I need help. Don't solve my problems for me. This only makes me lose respect for you. Don't lecture, moralize, scold, blame, or argue, whether I'm loaded or sober. It may make you feel better, but it will make the situa...
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In a state of change,,,
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Helo friends in MIP,,, my lifes changing again,,, major !! the old mansion we lived in,, me all my 46 year life is being demolished this month end,,,its seen 6 generations of my family live here !! all of my life story is from here,,, i was feeling sad till i realised this was a change for the better !!! So my...
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Surprise!!! peggy here :)
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HI everyone , just talked with tam on instant messaging , and he suggested i drop in, so i thought i would check out how everyone is doing here. it's so great seeing old names here . it's like coming home on thanksgiving! to see that the people who helped me get through a tough time are still here helping o...
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oh boy..
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So i went to chicago this weekend to visit my friend, the one who ODed 2 weekend ago when i was visiting, anyway, she is still using, and she picked me up from the airport and before i had a say in anything we drove to the west-side (which is the ghetto of chicago) and picked up her friend (who happens to be in a...
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thought I would check in
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its me some of you know who me is just wanted ya'll to know i am doing well I am getting ready for gastric bypass in November doing well with therapy and my recovery over 2 years now and cannot complain life is good plenty to be grateful for just houghtI would drop a line love and hugs your sister in recovery
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how have i blamed other people?
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in working out of the step guide, i came upon this question. my first thought was my dad, for physically abandoning me. It is my first concrete memory at 3 years old. next my mom, for being emotionally unavailable last but not least the men i have had relationships with, anger, the shallow hal syndrome...
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The Truth ~~~~~~Just for today 10/18-07
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"The Truth" "Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth." Basic Text, page 91 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 wit...
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october 19 just for today
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October 19 Standing For Something "... we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us."Basic Text, p.85 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 o...
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The effects of gossip
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The one who gossips - People are less likely to share their recovery with gossipers because they don't want their confidence betrayed. You show your defects by pointing them out in others. The one who gets gossips to - How do you handle it? Hopefully by not encouraging it but how else? Do you let them be w...
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Newcomers please read page 84 of the NA book
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when did you finally start to feel better??
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Well, it's just been 11 days now that I have not used, but still I am just feeling kinda lousy...i should remember all of this, this is my third time through withdrawal/detox/recovery....whatever you want to call it.....i just don't remember the last time being so hard, but maybe i was not taking so mu...
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Am I crazy or is it just me
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me? myself? and I?, I'm confused I think there are now 3 of me. I thought there was only 2 but recently another has evolved and I have no idea where he came from, I like him though he's a good one. ok have a nice day HEH HEH
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10 addicts- a poem
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Addicts - A Poem by jayson cole 10 Addicts, all in a line, One got to thinking--- Then there were Nine. 9 Addicts, one said, "Wait!" "A near beer can't hurt!"--- Then there were eight. 8 Addicts, lookin' up to heaven. One cut out mee...
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october 16 just for today
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October 16 The Simplest Prayer "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 Anony...
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wisdom to know the difference(natural wisdom)
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The Truths Within Value Your Own Wisdom Throughout our lives, we will encounter individuals who presume to know what is best for us. The insights they offer cannot compare, however, with the powers of awareness and discernment that already exist within us. From birth we are blessed with wisdom that...
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