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Will not be around for a while
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Hello Everyone, I just wanted to drop by and let you guys know that I will not be around for a while. My friends, family, sponsor, and support group have all encouraged me to write. I have been writing for what seems like forever. I am 66 pages in. We have a friend who is a book agent and she is waiting for m...
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Oops!
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"Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." Basic Text, p. 23 Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guiltat the very least, with frustration and im...
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May 9 Write About It!
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"We sit down with a notebook, ask for guidance, pick up our pen, and start writing." Basic Text, p. 29 When we're confused or in pain, our sponsor 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...
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I wanted to reintroduce myself..
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Hello family!! My name is Coryann and I am an addict. I know some of you, but the names have changed alot around here..I used to be a regular in here..I've been asked to come back and help out. I hope to get to know everyone!! If there is anything I can do to help let me know..I love NA!!!!
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CHATROOM NEEDS YOUR ATTENTION
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hi all the chat room is in some need of attention I am not able to spend all my time in there the way I used to If you are intrested in the direction of MIP please sit for awhile our primary purpose is to carry the message to the addict that still suffers how can we do that if noone is there. I have recieved email...
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other addictions that pop up
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for the past few days i've been dealing with overwhelming feelings, and i'm not scared of using because i have another addiction (self-injury) that sort of acts as a buffer to my drug addiction and i worry sometimes that if i didn't have it that i'd go out and use at times. but still, its just a cross-addi...
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We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us.
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I was talking with my sister, she's been in the program a long time , been very involved and has had an intense recovery with alot of outside therapy , I scoffed at her back then but now I understand, because we are the same in many ways. We are without love, it wasn't shown much in our family , small family ju...
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love
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ya know it is funny how my HP works tahir stated higer power or will power I tlaked to my sponser tonight I asked about faith because faith in ppl that does not work well (yet) faith in my hp is questionable at times so i asked he what am I supposed to have faith in she asked me how long do you have clean I told all...
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Willpower or Higher Power ~ Pick Your Choice
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Hey I received this amazing share from Dalin (an ex-member of this group) this morning... wanted to share it with all of you... Imagine that you are on a hiking trip in the middle of the desert. You see a figure in the distance. It is an old man bearded and half naked, on hands and knees, with his fingers...
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i'm a newb.
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hi. i have just recently made the decision to come clean from my cocaine, ecstacy, pot, etc. use. it has a lot of problems with my family since they found out, but they just put me in my room and put me back into my public school. this is not helping me stay clean. i found a NA meeting place close to where i live...
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May 10 ***** Becoming Entirely Ready *****
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"We... get a good look at what these defects are doing to our lives. We begin to long for freedom from these defects." Basic Text, p. 33 Becoming entirely ready to have our defects of character removed can be a long process, often taking place over the course of a lifetime. Our state of readin...
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Primary Purpose
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I am struggling a little bit about what I "think" about some of the "drama" that has been going on for the past few weeks on here. So I went to the basic text, and found this....it helped me alot to calm my thinking and my mind so I wanted to share it..... Page 10, basic text "Nar...
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Help With An Assignment
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hey everyone, my sponsor gave me an assignment to ask people about their relationship with their sponsor. anything you feel like sharing and about anything concerning you and your sponsors relationship. whether he/she is strict, or motherly, or close like a friend. or how they might make you work t...
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new member seeking help
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I am new to the online n/a meetings and in need of some real help. I have been off of opiates for over 4 months. Still cannot sleep and the thoughts that run thru my head. OMG!!!!! It's terrible. I guess I need to realize that I have a disease and will never be like "normal" people again. T...
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able to breathe
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ty ops of MIP NACHAT I am so grateful for the unity in this room which has aloud me to breathe. ty so much for covering things while I take care of me and my recovery. Just for info I am doing great going to plenty of mtgs and alot of step work I just wanted ya'll to know I am doing well miss ya'll but not enough ye...
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Anniversaries
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Coming up on 2 years on May 17. My disease is really messing with my head right now. Had an small argument with my husband two days ago, and since have been thinking about my dealer. I can still remember her number. My disease tells me to call and check to see if the number is still in service and that tha...
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Apology more than saying "sorry".
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Addiction creates moral wreckage. People who become addicted to alcohol or other drugs might lie, cheat, or steal in order to get and use their chemical of choice. Often what's left behind is a trail of shattered relationships. In this situation, apologies won't do. Alcoholics Anonymous calls for...
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Off topic
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Step 1
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Hey All, I'm in step 1 and my sponsor asked me to ask fellows how they "live" step 1. Am open for anything. Please help. Love, Magellan
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May 5 Any Lengths
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"...I was ready to go to any lengths to stay clean." Basic Text, p. 217 "Any lengths?" newcomers ask. "What do you mean, any lengths?" Looking back at our active addiction and the lengths we were willing to go to in order to stay high can help to explain. Were we willin...
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Any Length
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Last night i went to a meeting and it was a round robin about the idea of going to any length for your recovery. And personally I don't know whether I really go to any lengths, I mean I go to meetings daily if not more and i do assignments and take my sponsor's suggestions (most times). But then in other ways I...
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May 2 "Just Maybe...."
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"There is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our recovery; this is an attitude of indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles." Basic Text, p. 18 When we first came to NA, many of us had great difficulty accepting the spiritual principles underlying thi...
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how to let someone go
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hey everyone. from an outside perspective my situation seems really clear and i've even been able to recognize that fact, though it doesn't help fully. anyways, i'm new it recovery (5 months) and i've become friends with someone that has been coming around for about 10 years, never really worked a...
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Technical Issues
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Hi I really want to get onto the chat forum but for some reason I can't. I tried downloading the new Java software and that didn't work. I don't understand what this IRC stuff is, I tried to download that too but it did nothing. Sorry to be such a pain, but if anyone has any idea what I can do to get on it woul...
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In Need of Service Workers
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must have a minumim of 6 months clean for op position and be willing to chair either Saturaday or Sunday night mtg all meetings are @ 10 pm est in exeption of sunday morning which is 10 am est We here at MIP also need anyone interested in the direction in the room to hang out and greet ppl just a willingness to...
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Recognizing And Releasing Resentments
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"We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today." Basic Text p. 28 Many of us had trouble identifying our resentments when we were new in recovery. There we sat with our Fourth Step in front of us, thinking and thinking, finally deciding th...
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Perspective
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If you find yourself stuck in traffic, dont despair. There are people in this world for whom driving is an unheard of privilege. Should you have had a bad day at work, think of the person who has been out of work for years. Should you despair over a relationship gone bad, think of the person who has never...
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it may look like I did but i swear, I did NOT do it
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-- Edited by BigV at 11:03, 2007-04-14
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April 30
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God Does For Us "Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves." Basic Text, p. 96 How often have we heard it said in meetings that "God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves?" A...
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4th step blues
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As I go through another 4th step, I get this feeling of being lazy, my self esteem drops in the toilet, and I really hate doing it over and over and over again. So I am going to share this cause I just did the 5th step behind it. My resentment this time, (and probably has been for some time), is with god. I was th...
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