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Amanda has 5 months Clean!!!
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Congratulations and Way to go Amanda on your cleantime!! Any day clean for an addict is a miracle!!! Clapping!!
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Just a little story and what this program gave to my sister
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My sister turned 40 and her gift that day was she was to have a child. Her husband is 50 Her husband has been clean near 20 years and my sister near 12 . This is each of theres first child and what an angel sent from heaven, what greater gift could be given ? We all have gifts coming to us as long as we do whats ind...
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Subcommittee meetings in member homes - okay or not?
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The topic of whether or not an area subcommittee meeting should be held in a member's home is a hot one in my area. I thought at one point I had come across this topic in the Concepts, but now I can't find it and wonder if I've seen it someplace else. I know it was in the policy of my previous area, but is it discu...
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Scared
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My main problem is my marijuana use. It is the source of my other problems such as irritability and over eating. I know I need help, but don't know where to start. I'm coming off the worst month of my life. My marriage ended, a very dear friend took his own life, and 3 days ago I lost my job for drinking a f...
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Robyn has 30 DAYS!!!
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Congratulations Robyn on 30 MIRACLES!!! Orange - Orange we glad we found NA? The color of caution, we should be cautious at 30 days. Avoid old playmates, playgrounds, & playthings. 30 days. How do we get it? We keep coming back!
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Greatness,,,(something I read this day)
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Hi please read if you want to !!!Something I read today that may be helpful to self critical addicts !! """Recognizing Our Own Greatness and The Greatness In Others""" A person who is said to possess greatness stands apart from others in some way, usually by the size...
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september 18 just for today
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September 18 Honest Relationships "One of the most profound changes in our lives is in the realm of personal relationships."Basic Text pg. 55 Recovery gives many of us relationships that are closer and more intimate than any we've had before. As time passes, we find ourselves gravitati...
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Sober Living Facilities
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I apologize f this is not the right board for this but really need some help. My 19 year old nephew is getting out of a 6 month treatment program in November. We are looking for a nice, clean sober living facility for him. We are in the Ft. Lauderdale area. If anyone has any experience with this,...
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Just for Today - Sept. 17th
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"We may think that we have done enough by writing about our past. We cannot afford this mistake" ............................Basic Text. P. 32 Some of us aren't too keen on writing out the fourth step. Others take it to an obsessive extreme. To our sponsor's growing dismay, we invent...
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Thank you "just for today"
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Thanks to those who post a daily "just for today" preview and comment. I have found myself looking for these posts and the discussion first thing in the morning. I find it very helpful. Once again thank you, and may God bless the rooms of NA.
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Our Common welfare comes first ,,,
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This is the first part of the First Tradition and I am interested to know how you people use that in your service work and also within the Miracles In Progress Forum,,, Please share and throw more Light on the subject !!!
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september 15 just for today
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September 15 Filling The Emptiness "..we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, we'll be satisfied and everything will be alright."Basic Text p.77 In our addiction, we could never get enough drugs, or money, or sex, or anything else. Even too much was never...
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Feeling bad.
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So through this whole decision to leave school and all the problems i've had here, i have been calling my mom a lot and talking to her and having her walk me through all the stuff i need to do to withdrawal from my classes and and get out of my lease and just to talk about how i feel and stuff, but my dad called me...
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New to Board
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I am 35 years old and I have been throwing my life away on drugs and I am tired... I have been to rehab back in 1995 and attend meetings sporadically but never really stopped. I just got off a binge. I am in debt and I am very depressed. I want a life. I can't take this anymore.
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How About a Tradition Study here?
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I've observed that there's a lot of shares on the steps and personal recovery as such, but there is little awareness among us about the 12 Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous. What they are? How do they apply to us? How do we apply these traditions in any group (be it NA, workplace, family at home, our grou...
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Congratulations Heather on 5 years clean!!
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Black - Keep coming back! Black is the absence of all colors, just like the absence of drugs in our lives. Black is the void, that little chunk of HP that we carry around with us that got us this far! If We keep coming back We'll all have multiples. We've been in the dark long enough. Gold on black because we k...
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JUST FOR TODAY SEPTEMBER 14TH 2007
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Secrets Are Reservations "Eventually we are shown that we must get honest, or we will use again." Basic Text, page 82 Everyone has secrets, right? Some of us have little secrets, items that would cause only minor embarrassment if found out. Some of us have big secrets, whole areas of our li...
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Whelp I've reached that age
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I checked my blood pressure a few days ago because I've been having some really bad vertigo (dizzy spells) and my BP was out the roof (stage 2) I looked it up on Google and found a site that explained most everything. So went to clinic this evening I am now on meds, had EKG and blood work. EKG doctor said look...
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september 12 just for today
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September 12 New Horizons "My life is well-rounded and I am becoming a more comfortable version of myself, not the neurotic, boring person that I thought I'd be without drugs."Basic Text p.262 Is there really life without drugs? Newcomers are sure that they are destined to lead a humdrum...
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september 11 some wont forget
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THIS IS A STORY OF NA AND 9/11 BY JAYSON COLE ON 9/11 Not many of us knew Kaitlina. She was young and kinda quiet,sheshared softly when she come to NA many years ago, NA told her all the usual stuff, and she did what was suggested. One day she walked right up to one of the women there and asked her to help...
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Ok I found a bunch of quotes
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"Anger is only a symptom of what is really going on" "Yesterday's a cancelled check, tomarrow's a promisary note, but today is cash, spend it wisely." "I am learning how to live life from a bunch of folks that don't know how to live life....Wow, wh...
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Leaving School
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I realize that i've been putting school ahead of my recovery, and it's just really stressful, and i can't concentrate on my homework, and everyone is partying all the time, and everything just got to me and i broke down, and called my mom, and i've decided to take off the rest of the semester and maybe the...
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Clearing my conscience
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I told myself that i would wait until i had a week of clean time before i said this, because that way i would feel less guilty, but i realize that it shouldn't matter, and that honesty is best, it's strange that i'm worried about what you guys think of me, i mean we are on the internet.. but i guess it means tha...
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september 11 just for today
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September 11 Bend With The Wind "We learn to become flexible.. As new things are revealed, we feel renewed."Basic Text p.98 "Flexibility" was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. We'd become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the so...
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I don't want to relapse
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Why is it that everything will be going along fine and all of a sudden I just have this overwhelming desire to get high? Seems every six months or so I will relapse and then I will feel like absolute crap and will get rid of the rest of whatever it is (pills the past couple of years) and then say to myself they...
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good ol' step four
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Could use a few prayers as I make my first attempt at starting step four today. got my coffee, cigarettes, extra pens and a new notebook.
fearless? well... i'm not so sure... i've been dreading this for weeks, putting it off and stalling as long as i could. now my guilt about procrastinating has gotte...
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Need help
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Fam, I have to work tonight. Can someone chair the meeting? I will pop in a bit and see if Tam is available. J
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self approval
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Self-approval Most of us want to be liked. We want other people to think of us as nice, friendly, kind, and loving. Most of us want the approval of others. Since childhood, some of us have been trying to get approval, trying to get people to like us and think highly of us. We may be afraid people will leave u...
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september10 just for today
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September 10 More Powerful Than Words "We learn that a simple, loving hug can make all the difference in the world."Basic Text p.88 Perhaps there have been times in our recovery when we were close to someone who was in great pain. We struggled with the question, "What can I do to make th...
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please help me
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My husband is a cocaine addict. He lost his job of almost 20 years due to his anger when withdrawing from the drug. I only see him once or twice a week and I am sick with worry. I don't know what to do. I don't know how to help him. He came home yesterday after about a 10 day coke binge, looking very bad......
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