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" Just for Today" Change and Growth
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"When someone points out a shortcoming, our first reaction may be defensive. There will always be room for growth." Basic Text, page 35 Recovery is a process that brings about change in our lives. We need that change if we are to continue our growth toward freedom. It's important that we re...
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Addiction: Brief summarys
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1. Being abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) 2. An abnormally strong craving 3. Is a progressive disease; the disease effects us in the following general ways. Mentally, we become obsessed with thoughts...
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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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I don't know if I'm doing the right thing by posting here or not, but I need to reach out to people who understand addiction (also, I plan to attend NA meetings in my area to support my boyfriend while he's going through rehab). I'm curious if they're going to tell him to stay away from me after he gets out of...
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Surrender ( just for Today)
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"We didn't stumble into this fellowship brimming with love, honesty, open-mindedness, or willingness....When we were beaten, we became willing." Basic Text, page 20 Surrender may be the necessary foundation for recovery, but sometimes we fight it. Most of us look back after some cle...
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Accepting Life As It Is (Just for Today)
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"In our recovery, we find it essential to accept reality. Once we can do this, we do not find it necessary to use drugs in an attempt to change our perceptions." Basic Text, page 87 Drugs used to buffer us from the full force of life. When we stop using drugs and enter recovery, we find ourselve...
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One final meeting tonight then i'm leaving the board ( for awhile )
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Thats it for me i've pretty much come to an end of my service here and yes it's been forced on me to make this decision. That's life. Take care everyone some of you have my email and are welcome to contact me anytime I will remain a member but won't be posting at all anymore. I appreciate all of you here and wis...
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Desparately Need Advice/Pleas Help!
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It all started at the age of 17 and I am now 35. At first I started selling drugs as time went on I started using cocaine. So for me it's like I'm not only addicted to the drug I'm also addicted to the fast lifestyle.I been to prison 3 times only to get out and return to what I left which was the drugs and that life...
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Just For Today
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Just For Today Just for today I will try to live through this day only & not tackle my whole life problem 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 real " Just for today" sorry its late I lost the link
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New Levels Of Honesty "We have been experts at self-deception and rationalization." Basic Text, page 27 When we come to our first meeting and hear that we must be honest, we may think, "Well now, that shouldn't be too difficult. All I have to do is stop lying." To some of us, this c...
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indirect amends
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"Indirect amends may be necessary where direct ones would be unsafe or endanger other people." Basic Text, p.40 When we used, we allowed nothing to stand in the way of that next high. As a result, many of us didn't always know precisely whom we had injured, either financially or emotionall...
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June 20 Meditation For Beginners "For some, prayer is asking for God's help; meditation is listening for God's answer. Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us." Basic Text, pp.44-45 "Be patient when you're lear...
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Hello....New here.
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Hello, My name is Charlotte, and I am the mother of an addict. Five years ago I would say my life was pretty good. I had a nice job, a good husband, and had raised 3 sons and had helped raise 1 foster daughter since the age of 9. On October 18, 2002 our lives changed forever. My oldest son was killed in an au...
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sense of humor
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June 19 A Sense Of Humor "We find that when we lose self-obsession, we are able to understand what it means to be happy, joyous, and free." Basic Text, p.103 The laughter in our meetings often surprises the newcomer. As a group, we appreciate the healing that healthy laughter brings. Even i...
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life on lifes' term
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you know I used to think that meant life the way you wanted it without the use of drugs LOL well I was wrong it is life and all its glory pain and whatever else it chooses to throw at you and accepting that as is without the use of drugs. So when they told me in rehab that this is not burger king and you cannot have...
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Recovery And Relapse
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Many people think that recovery is simply a matter of not using drugs. They consider a relapse a sign of complete failure, and long periods of abstinence a sign of complete success. We in the recovery program of Narcotics Anonymous have found that this perception is too simplistic. After a member ha...
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feelings
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man they are not kidding when they say emotions hit you like a brick the longer you have clean and dealing with them is just as hard. And just when you feel no one in the world will understand you are ont the phone with onther addict that understand completly. the reason this says I am a newbie is because I de...
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I Completed 3 Years of Recovery Today!
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Greetings Family, By the grace of my Higher Power and with the help and support I continue to receive from all of you, I complete 3 years of recovery today Thank you all for sharing this journey with me. I love each one of you dearly and I need you all in my recovery. Hugs, Love & Light ~ Tahir.
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Relationships
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Relationships keep us aware of the fact that we really do need each other. Meaningful and fulfilling relationships are possible. Although isolated by the disease of addiction, we long for friends, companions and lovers. We want to trust and to be trusted. With practice, we learn that taking health...
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Update on my heath..CoRyAnN
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Hi there..I hope all is well in your neck of the woods. I thought I'd write and let you know what I have found out..Well I have had 2 strokes..It took awhile to figure out what was going on with me, because my symptoms were so broad. I have Lupus..I have had it for a long time and because it was left undiagnose...
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How do I get my memory back?
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The biggest problem I have now is with my memory. Short-term memory is horrible. I cannot remember what someone just told me sometimes, and sometimes I am sure I did or saw something and I realize later that I haven't. Can anyone relate to this? People around me tell me it's a matter of time and that it wil...
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JUST FOR TODAY ~~~Living Clean~~~
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"As we recover; we gain a new outlook on being clean.... Life can become a new adventure for us." Basic Text, page 88 The using life is not a clean one-no one knows this better than we do. Some of us lived in physical squalor, caring neither for our surroundings nor ourselves. Worse, though, t...
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even in the beginning there is hope
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pg 22 BT "Surrender means not having to fight anymore. We accept our addiction and life the way it is.WE become willing to do whatever is necassary to stay clean, even the things we don't like doing." I know for me that there still gives me hope to follow this simple program as addict we have le...
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gossip in recovery
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i guess this is not too unusual, my ex is telling everyone that i relapsed which is hard to take at times. any advice on how to deal with this?
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Amazing stuff on Practising the principles in our Traditions
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It is important to us that we can freely express ourselves in our group, but this is only possible when we have confidence in that what we express would not be spoken or discussed about with others after the meeting. Therefore, we don't express or try to interpret after the meeting about what was shared...
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LOVE
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Love is a constellation of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. The meaning of love varies relative to context. Romantic love is seen as an ineffable feeling of intense attraction shared in passionate or intimate attraction and intimate interperso...
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NA Family
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Today I got a call from a fellow addict that is on vacation in Turkey. I was so surprised that he would call I can only imagine how much it costs from there to Toronto Canada. He said he is having a wonderful time there but really needed to hear a familiar voice. He was telling me that he went to his first meeti...
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PEACE
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Peace is a state of harmony, the absence of hostility. This term is applied to describe a cessation of or lapse in violent international conflict; in this international context, peace is the opposite of war. Peace can also describe a relationship between any parties characterized by respect, just...
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