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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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So its like monday right
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I show up for my mens stag meeting and about 5:10 10 minutes AFTER the meetisn supposed to start I realize (HEY DUH DUDE) Monday was yesterday and you missed the meeting numbnutz LOL So I'm like hanging around and I see that an AA meeting is about to start so I go in to check out my old program. Man i'm glad I d...
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can I get some cheese with this whine?
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Hi Y'all It's been a while since I've posted here on MIP. I've been staying clean [20 months so far] attending meetings, connecting with sponsor and friends, [I wish I could say that I am working steps diligently but I've been procrastinating in this long long through 4th step I have been doing] I was wo...
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Sept 9th " just for today"
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Feet Of Clay "One of the biggest stumbling blocks to recovery seems to be placing unrealistic expectations on... others." Basic Text, page 78 Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. By comparison, the recovering addicts we meet at meetings may s...
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THE HOSTAGE BEGGING FOR FREEDOM
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THE HOSTAGE BEGGING FOR FREEDOM By Jayson Cole The hostage that could see no way out No matter how much he would scream and shout Locked away in a cell so deep A cold steel door no sign of a key His cries could not be heard by the world outside As he longed for the day that he might die Im the depths of his cell I he...
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a year ago today
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hello family just thought i'd share a little today is my belly button birthday and i'm so grateful i get to spend it clean and sober!!! my last birthday was truly awful!! Looking back it seems like it was more of a deadday than a birthday...i spent it in a crackhouse.. i was bonerail thin, had been up for da...
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I Need Help!
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Something I shouldn't be doing, but I really care so here goes...
Well, I'm a recovering Alcoholic/Drug Addict.
You could say I was a pretty high bottom person and it was meeting my fiance that saved my life. He introduced me to the program. He had 5 years off of crack/cocaine/pain pills/alcohol,...
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more of the same and worse
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Well it seems that im in the proces of becoming so detached from my soul by being in active addiction that im scared iŽll never get recovery. Iv been trying for over 3 yrs now and can only manage up to 2-3 months before relaps and thats with meetings, now im travling and havnt been to a meeting for ages and fe...
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BRETT, SANDRA, MAGELLAN, GALEON !!!
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Anyone heard from Brett, Sandra or Megellan? Been sometime since they posted here it seems... Hey guys & gals, miss you
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Scared
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Things have been so out of control. I feel like i'm drowning. I didn't go to school the last couple days at the end of this week, and i think i missed a quiz, and i'm spending money i don't have like crazy, and i can feel myself slip deeper and deeper into the cycle, i want so badly to call up that guy i met at the m...
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september7 just for today
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September 7 Resentment And Forgiveness "Where there has been wrong, the program teaches us the spirit of forgiveness."Basic Text p.12 In NA, we begin to interact with the world around us. We no longer live in isolation. But freedom from isolation has its price. The more we interact with p...
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daily journal how it helps
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When we're confused or in pain, our sponsor or people in meetings sometimes tells us to "write about it." Though we may groan as we drag out the notebook, we know that it will help. By laying it all out on paper, we give ourselves the chance to sort through what's bothering us. We know we can ge...
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Day one!!
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I am new to this forum or any forum for that matter. I guess i'v known for a long time that I was an addict, but never took the steps for recovery. Well here's my first step. I am and alcoholic/drug addict. I think I hit bottom this weekend when my husband was out of town and I just went nuts!! I spent sooo...
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Almost 48hr's sober
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Now i'm getting frusterated. I'm edgy and just flat irritated. I usually start drinking around 4pm (after work) and I know that I can't. Yesterday was easy because I felt like crap from the night before. Today, on the other hand, I feel good and am ready to party. I'm not going to though. I wonder if...
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Day 1 out of the way. (again)
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So, my parents booked me a plane ticket to come home to visit for a weekend a month from now, and i didn't really have any input into it, and i know that i'm not supposed to worry about anything but today, but i think that it is a REALLY bad idea that i go back home to visit this early in my recovery. I mean i go bac...
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september 6 just for today
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September 6 Regular Meeting Attendance "We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean."Basic Text p.9 The NA program gives us a new pattern of living. One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance....
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september 5 just for today
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September 5 Not Hopelessly Bad "We find that we suffer from a disease, not a moral dilemma. We were critically ill, not hopelessly bad."Basic Text p.16 For many of us, Narcotics Anonymous was the answer to a personal puzzle of long standing. Why did we always feel alone, even in a crowd, we w...
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Too many opinions
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Hi Family, I would like your opinion on my comments. I have not been using the NA book as much as I should. I am pulling most of it from my own experiences and thoughts which may not be too good. I would appreciate any comments that will help me to improve myself and help others. By the way my feelings don't g...
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Freedom
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I have a pair of wings on my back to symbolize the freedom I feel in sobriety but I have yet to feel completely free until this moment. An old drug dealer/"friend" called me and the only reason I answered was because I didn't recognize the number. Of course I recognized the voice as soon as he sa...
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