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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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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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" 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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-- Edited by Rayne at 13:54, 2007-06-20 -- Edited by Rayne at 14:12, 2007-06-20
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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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