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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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know your danger signals
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welcome
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Jason Cole to MIP, so glad you are here with us...please keep coming back!! love in recovery Wendy
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12 steps of relapse
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Hello All, Here's something I read: Twelve Steps of a Relapse 1. I decided I could handle any emotional problems if other people would just quit trying to run my life. 2. I firmly believe that there is no greater power than myself and anyone who says differently is insane. 3. I made a decision to remove my...
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just for today august 12 enough
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August 12 Enough! "Something inside cries out, 'Enough, enough, I've had enough; and then they are ready to take that first and often most difficult step toward dealing with their disease."Basic Text, p.203 Have we really had enough? This is the crucial question we must ask ourselves as...
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today just for the today
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April 11 A Closed Mind "A new idea cannot be grafted onto a closed mind... Open-mindedness leads us to the very insights that have eluded us during our lives."Basic Text p. 93 We arrived in NA at the lowest point in our lives. We'd just about run out of ideas. What we needed most when we got here...
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4 days clean
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and trying to make it five. I went to a meeting last night and I know i should have gone tonight, but I'm a little sunburned and very tired. But now I'm scared that i missed a meeting. I shouldnt have. I want to quit so bad. The problem is I've been with this guy for years now, and he uses too. Our relationship d...
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Meetings - Where's the attraction?
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Last night I went to a meeting I have not been to before. When I arrived, everyone was standing outside smoking. Since I do not smoke and do not wish to inhale or smell like smoke, I went inside. There, I sat in a room alone until everyone rushed in at the time of the meeting and it started. Halfway through th...
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Chat Room?
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Hi all, Ive been jumping onto irc chat room at http://www.12stepforums.net/na/nachat.html the last few days and its... urm... not as active as once it was. Is this room still being used? If not where are all you scallywags hanging out these days? I guess it could be down to the time difference as im 8 hr...
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daily just for today
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August 9 The Power Of Love "We begin to see that God's love has been present all the time, just waiting for us to accept it."Basic Text, p.46 God's love is the transforming power that drives our recovery. With that love, we find freedom from the hopeless, desperate cycle of using, self-hatr...
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JFT 8-7-2007 "The Gratitude List"
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The Gratitude List "We focus on anything that isn't going our way and ignore all the beauty in our lives." Basic Text, page 77 It's easy to be grateful when everything runs smoothly. If we get a raise at work, we're grateful. If we get married, we're grateful. If someone surprises us with a ni...
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daily just for today
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August 10 Regular Prayer And Meditation "Most of us pray when we are hurting. We learn that if we pray regularly, we won't be hurting as often or as intensely."Basic Text, p.44 Regular prayer and meditation are two more key elements in our new pattern of living. Our active addiction was mor...
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hello family
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Wendy here.... been a long time, clean and sober today, working on my 7th month. Went to a birthday meeting last night, 3 birthdays, totallying over 6ooo days clean. Was awesome. Detox center in town goes to that meeting...2 people in the center i know currently, i did the geographical cure thing, mov...
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Paging Blessed
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Hi Blessed, Please check your email and get back to me. Thanks! J
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the way it was
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not a day goes by that i don't reminisce... can't forget...ya like i actually COULD forget... of where i so recently came from When i moved 10 months ago i had only the clothes i was wearing, i was so, so, so needing to get out of my environment but so full of fear to reach out for help, i figured my HP didn't ha...
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Life gets real
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I've heard it said that in early recovery life gets good, then it gets really good, and then it just gets real. Well I'm just hitting the real stage. I'm over two years clean my life it good. I have many blessings, but I seem to be amasing things that bug me. I've tried to focus on gratitude, but when it sli...
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JUST FOR TODAY ( 8-4-07 )
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When Is A Secret Not A Secret? "Addicts tend to live secret lives.... It is a great relief to get rid of all our secrets and to share the burden of our past." Basic Text, page 32 We've heard it said that "we're as sick as our secrets" What do we keep secret, and why? We keep secret those...
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trust
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tell me the secrect of learning how you can tell who to trust please. i have been burned in the program so many times now i am really freaked out and i just dont know who to trust any more. am i really stupid? is everyone in this area bad? what the hell is going on? i did better when i wore leather and had a attitu...
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New Member
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Hello. I'm not sure I am posting in the right place. I have a problem with prescription medications. I take too many pills and use up a months supply of pills in less than a week. I am quitting doing this but the temptation is always there. I abuse Opana (a narcotic pain pill), Ambien, Zyrem and Soma. I make...
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Break Out The Blame Game!
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Something I read today... Passing it on... Better to see where we have been blind in this life -- toward others and about ourselves -- than never to see at all; otherwise, we'll just go on blaming whatever "walls" we walk into for getting in our way! Blaming conflict-filled feelings on any c...
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