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Higher Power's Will (something I read today)
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In the long run, it's easier to carry out our Higher Power's will than our own. The good news of the Twelve Steps is that we don't have to continue trying to make self-will work. Attempting to make the rest of the world conform to what we think we want is a little like trying to push water uphill. It's not onl...
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JUST FOR TODAY ( 7-15-07 )
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Relations With Others "We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all." Step Eight All human beings struggle with self-centeredness. The chronic self-centeredness that lies at the very core of addiction makes that struggle doubly difficult for...
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I need people
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Let me start by saying I am new to this. I want to work on my recovery. I don't have much clean time in. I had 8 months because I was incarcerated. When I got released I used and I have been struggling with it for a few months again now. I have been in and out of jail several times. I don't want to go back. I...
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JUST FOR TODAY
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Patience "We were trapped by our need for the instant gratification that drugs gave us." "I want what I want, and I want it now!" That's about as patient as most of us ever got in our active addiction. The obsession and compulsio...
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travling in active addiction
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Hi, iv been trying to stay clean for the past 3 yrs or more and apart from the odd one or two month periods of sobrity iv been unsucsessfull.
I left Australia to travel around the world but had relapsed just before i left so started on the wrong foot to say the least. I abstained from using for a while unt...
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Need some advice
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hi I am new here. I have a sister who is a addict and I have tried to help her many times but I guess she is not ready for my help. I am wondering is there any help or meetings that me and my family can attend. We are having a really hard time with this and I would love for my parents especially to get more info. We d...
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What would you do.....
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Presently writing on my 4th Step. Always make sure I put my stepwork away. Well, I was in work yesterday and my husband calls me to tell me that my 7 year old hurt her eye at camp, but that she's okay. Oh - and by the way, I read your stepwork and it says you cheated on me. No lie! I feel violated. I have wor...
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A Positive Attitude ( just for EVERYday ) :)
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"That old nest of negativism followed me everywhere I went." Basic Text, page 135 A negative attitude is the trademark of active addiction. Everything that occurred in our lives was someone or something else's fault. We had blaming others for our shortcomings down to a fine science. In r...
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The "G" Word ( Just for Today )
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"It is important for you to know that you will hear God mentioned at NA meetings. What we are referring to is a Power greater than ourselves that makes possible what seems impossible." IP No.22, "Welcome to NA" Most of us come to Narcotics Anonymous with a variety of preconcepti...
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"The truth will make you free, but first it will make you angry."
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Can you relate? I sure can "Anger is only a symptom of what is really going on" Whats really going on? best answer " I dunno" LOL One time I heard a famous radio psychologist tell her listener " Oh you know whats going on, you just dont want to admitt it" Is there sh...
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1 year clean today
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Thanks to my higher power, NA and all of you that made this possible http://www.recoverygreetings.com/cards/pickup/89863074.html -- Edited by BigV at 22:50, 2007-07-05
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wedding invitation
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Our Wedding ReceptionWill be held at Pearsall Memorial Church3902 Market Street, Wilmington, NC Saturday, July 7th, 2007Dinner at 7 PM Dancing Startsat 8 PM Map To Wedding - Hugh MacRae ParkMap To Reception - Pearsall Memorial Church
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JFT ~ I'm Sorry
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"The main thing the Eighth Step does for us is to help build awareness that, little by little, we are gaining new attitudes about ourselves and how we deal with other people." Basic Text, page 38 To say "I'm sorry" probably isn't such a foreign idea to most of us. In our active add...
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(closed)
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-- Edited by BigV at 12:00, 2007-07-06
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traditions
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NO ONE NO MATTER HOW SICK SHOULD EVER BE BANNED FROM NA I DON'T CARE HOW SICK THEY ARE OR HOW MUCH GOSSIP IS DONE ABOUT A PERSON THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS EVERYONE BELONGS IN NA ONLY A DESIRE RIGHT? THAT HAS BEEN PROVEN DIFFERENT AT LEAST I AM NOT AS SICK TO SAY WHO BELONGS SOMEONE ONCE SAID ALL IT EVER TOOK WAS A...
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Self-esteem (something I read)
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I once had a beautiful plant. It sat on my dining room table for three weeks as I waited for it to blossom. Each week, I waited for something to happen. By week three, instead of a luscious blooming bush, what revealed itself was a dry, shriveled piece of nothing. I stormed angrily into the florist's shop...
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amends
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I am in the mist of dealing with med changes i have good days and i have bad ones In all honesty I have DID and I don't know how at one point ppl were drawn to me and my devotion and recovery to not being welcome I just know i must have been outta control i am just now starting to have "normal" days my pr...
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I have missed you all
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Hi friends, boy its been a while sorry . Between getting setteled in my new home conventions and my son and I cellabrating our cleen time, its gotten a bit busy around here. I have to say I honestly was reading the posts but staying at a distance because of some of the conflict I saw. I just wish we could all t...
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Quite an experience hiring then firing an NA member
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to help me paint, he did a few things that just blew me away, not acceptable and I played along in order to keep myself from getting angry, he even tried to con me out of extra money on his pay so he could get a cell phone,,, B.S not happening here. So told him there was no more work I didn't feel like going arou...
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Keeping Recovery Fresh
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June 29 Keeping Recovery Fresh"Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases."Basic Text, p.80 After the first couple of years in recovery, most of us start to feel like there are no more big deals. If we've...
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Fear
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What's your biggest fear sober?
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Quiet Time { Just for Today }
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"Many of us have found that setting aside quiet time for ourselves is helpful in making conscious contact with our Higher Power." Basic Text, page 92 Most of us pay lip-service to the value of conscious contact with a Higher Power. Yet how many of us consistently take time to improve that co...
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It's the simple things
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I was just listening to some music and randomly clicked on a a song and heres what came up, Kenny Chesney - Simple Things No I ain't had nothing to drink I knew thats probably what you'd think If I dropped by this time of night Remember way back when I promised you I'd drop in At one of those meetings down at th...
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Maintaining The Foundation [ Just for Today]
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"Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future." Basic Text, page 93 The foundation of our lives is what the rest of our lives is built upon. When we were using, that foundation affected everything we did. When we decided that recovery was important, that's whe...
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SERENITY this one will getcha :)P
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Group Conscience
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June 28 Group Conscience"Working with others is only the beginning of service work."Basic Text, p.56Service work calls for a selfless devotion to carrying the message to the still-suffering addict. But our attitude of service cannot stop there. Service also requires that we look at o...
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Divisions
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Hello All, It's obvious there are disagreements in our forum regarding the banishment of a member and it's very tempting to take sides. I see posts deleted and others edited. There will always be diffirences of opinion. It's how we deal with them that is vital. "Our leaders are but trusted serva...
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Felt Like Sharing...
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I have just come back from out of town. I had been to another town where NA has just taken birth They had reached out to our Area Service Committee for support, and a few of us drove down for a PR Event there. The Event went well, and I felt so grateful to be a part of this great miracle. I'm not too much PR savv...
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Something I heard in a meeting
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Our will compared to God's will. Our will = starts out easy ends up complicated Gods will = starts out hard ends up easy. Something like that
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Tolerance.....................(JFT 6/24/07)
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Tolerance Tolerance "...ever reminding us to place principles before personalities." Tradition Twelve Sometimes it's hard to accept others' character defects. As we recover together, we not only listen to others talk in meetings, we also watch how they walk through their recovery....
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