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keep it simple
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Keep It Simple Heaven and hell is right now. . You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.----George Harrison We used chemicals to feel better, but we started feeling worse. We were out of control. Life seemed like hell. Now we have a program that tells us how to make life better. Some days, it e...
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Is There Room In Your Day For The Unexpected?
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Recovery works best for me when I'm open to what comes along each day. I used to set rigid schedules for myself, write long lists of things to do, and proceed through the day wearing the blinders of my preconceived scenario. Binges were my way of rebelling against my own rigidity and also a protest again...
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MEETING HELP!!!!!
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I have just started a new job and my hours are 1- close and i go to school in the morning. How do i fit in meetings?
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Discouraged
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I just moved into my dorm 5 days ago, and had to start self-detoxing the minute i got here, feeling better now, just lonely and bored, i am happy about the fact i don't know anyone, keeps me out of trouble, but at the same time it's not too fun being home-sick and dope-sick at the same time, i decided to brave...
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Anxiety in Recovery?
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I am looking for fellow addicts who have experienced anxiety and panic disorder in recovery. Are you still there? How did you overcome it? I need help. Trudgin' I know that this will pass, but I need some help until it does.
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Back To Sanity
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Something that I read along with a Sponsee this evening... Even after years clean, when we have been working a program of recovery and seeking change, we may at times experience periods when life seems meaningless. We may experience a sense of alienation too painful to ignore. At such times, we may fi...
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Slogans
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Good Morning everyone, I am doing a workshop later on this year in which we will be making God Boxes. Would you please share with me your favorite slogan or saying that you hear in meetings. Thanks Barb
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august 19 just for today
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August 19 First Things First "We apply effort to our most obvious problems and let go of the rest. We do the job at hand and, as we progress, new opportunities for improvement present themselves."Basic Text, p. 54 It's been said that recovery is simple? All we've got to change is everything...
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9 months today
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valuing this moment
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what na meetings are 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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august18 just for today
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August 18 How Long Do I Have To Go? "The way to remain a productive, responsible member of society is to put our recovery first."Basic Text, p. 102 The meetings have been great! Each night we've attended, we've gathered with other addicts to share experience, strength, and hope. And each d...
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Hey there... I am new...
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Well... I am pretty unsure of what to do. I have been sober for over 425 days and I am back at home. I have no.. well like 3 friends and would like to be able to have some more. I will not talk to my friends that I had before I went to treatment because I am scared of getting back into the whole drug/ alcohol scene....
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people
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hey fam. I have a friend i have known since i was 10. I am now 24. Over the years me and him have used together and now that I am clean i hate to think he is "people" now (people, places and things) I've dropped everyone of my using"friends" but i don't know if I would put him in that catag...
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august17 just for today
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August 17 Tell The Truth "A symptom of our disease is alienation, and honest sharing will free us to recover."Basic Text, p. 80 Truth connects us to life while fear, isolation, and dishonesty alienate us from it. As using addicts, we hid as much of the truth about ourselves from as much of th...
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what i need to do just for today
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Just For Today Just for today I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle all my problems at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today I will be happy. This assumes to be true what Abraham Lincoln said, that "...
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the river
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a drug talking to i recovering addict
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rescuing ourselves
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You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go. Rescuing Ourselves No one likes a martyr. How do we feel around martyrs? Guilty, angry, trapped, negative, and anxious to get away. Somehow, many of us have developed the belief that depriving ourselves, not taking care of ourselves, being a v...
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august 16 just for today
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August 16 Up Or Down "This is our road to spiritual growth. We change every day.... This growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer."Basic Text, p. 35-36 Our spiritual condition is never static; if it's not growing, it's decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress...
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reflections for beginners
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Reflections for Beginners from 'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days' Our new life-style calls for a new self-responsibility. Is there something we are committed to do this afternoon? Go to a group, go to a meeting, call a friend, pray? We begin the process of being responsible by being on time, keeping pr...
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As a previous user
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whose been clean for 18 yrs I am a female with a male friend whose SO is an alcoholic and an addict, however no one has told him that part and when any of us broach the subject he says well at least I know shes not doing that! But I'd like to explain to him when he says they have "porn sex" that its pro...
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august 15 just for today
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August 15 Over Time, Not Overnight "We found that we do not recover physically, mentally, or spiritually overnight."Basic Text, p.27 Have you ever approached a recovery celebration with the feeling that you should be further along in your recovery than you are? Maybe you have listened...
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leaving room for feelings
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New Message on Narcotics-Anonymous Leaving Room for Feelings Reply Recommend Message 1 in Discussion From: cuddles_43ca You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go. Leaving Room for Feelings We need to allow enough room for others and ourselves to have and work through our feelings....
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keep it simple
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.---Shakespeare We are addicts. We suffer from an illness. We go to Twelve Step meetings because we know who we are. We have a sponsor because we know who we are. We ask friends for support because we know who we are. We know why we need our Higher Power to guide u...
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this is really hard.
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this is the first time i've really been serious about getting clean, and i haven't been to a meeting again since my first one two weeks ago. and i feel like i'm losing my mind. i'm still clean, but every day it gets harder for me to stay that way. i keep going through my contacts to call someone to score. fort...
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issues
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hi folks. im not working the steps, though I am an addict in recovery. I just felt like this might be a place where people were experiencing similar problems to mine: dealing with repurcussions of felony and eviction. I have a class c felony from 8 years ago, when I fell out in a mcdonalds bathroom, woke u...
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just for today august 14
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August 14 Letting Go Of Our Limitations "We don't have to settle for the limitations of the past. We can examine and reexamine our old ideas."Basic Text, p.11 Most of us come to the program with a multitude of self-imposed limitations that prevent us from realizing our full potential, lim...
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i am thankful
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I am thankful... ... to be released from drugs and alcohol, but I am more thankful to be bound by the resposibilities of sobriety. ... to be bound by the responsibilities of sobriety, but I am more thankful for the returning possession of my sanity. ... for the possession of a little sanity, but I am more...
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welcome kenh
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to the board of MIP!!! glad you are here with us. Hope to read more from you Wendy
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