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JFT August 3rd
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Trusting People "Many of us would have had nowhere else to go if we could not have trusted NA groups and members." Basic Text, page 81 Trusting people is a risk. Human beings are notoriously forgetful, unreliable, and imperfect. Most of us come from backgrounds where betrayal and insensi...
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Living In The Solution
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Instead of criticizing ourselves for the mistakes we thought or felt we had made in the course of a day, we chose to open our mind to ideas and ways to rectify those mistakes, whether those ideas sprang from our own heart or from others. This way, we received the power from our Higher Power to set right ou...
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STEP FIVE @ MIP Stepwork Board
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Greetings family, Please participate at the MIP Stepwork Board and share your ESH with us at the NA Step threads. Feel free to ask questions on the steps there. It is STEP FIVE that is being studied this fortnight there. Check it out. We need you. The link is http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?...
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hello, i am new to the online group thing, this is pretty cool. i look forward to attending meetings online.
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JFT (Freedom From Guilt)
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"Our addiction enslaved us. We were prisoners of our own mind and were condemned by our own guilt." Basic Text, page 7 Guilt is one of the most commonly encountered stumbling blocks in recovery. One of the more notorious forms of guilt is the self-loathing that results when we try to forgiv...
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Our Goal
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Step Twelve Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. We came to Narcotics Anonymous as the end result of the wreckage of our past. The last thing we expected was an awakening of the spirit....
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JUST FOR TODAY ( 7-31-07 )
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Freedom From Active Addiction "Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise and that is freedom from active addiction, the solution that eluded us for so long." Basic Text, page 102 NA offers no promises other than freedom from active addiction. It is true that some of our members meet wi...
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JUST FOR TODAY ( 7-28-07 )
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Secrets And Intimacy "We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected." Basic Text, page 31 Having relationships without barriers, ones in which we can be entirely open with our feelings, is something many of us desire. At the same time, the possibilit...
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My name is mike I am an addict
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My name is Mike and I am a addict. I am just about to finish my 90 in 90 and found this page last night while i was clicking around. I look forward to sharing and meeting some new addicts for my "we".
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Staying centered
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My goal today is to stay spiritually centered. Sometimes a mantra helps. Today my mantra is: I love me. I repeat it to myself in order to stay centered and not partake in the negative emotional reactions going on around me. This mantra feels like I'm giving myself a hug. Today I will walk my path wit...
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Need Help
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I reach out in great pain now. I got a call from my mom at noon. She was crying and was in panic. My dad's cancer is progressing, and he needs to go thru chemotherapy now for a year. He is in a state of shock after hearing about his condition and about the side effects of chemotherapy. He is losing hope. By what...
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JUST FOR TODAY Twelfth Step "Failure"?
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"Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." Step Twelve There is no such thing as a "failed" Twelfth Step call. Even if our prospect doesn't get clean, we have accom...
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(((((Sammy)))))
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Hi Sammy aka Mike, How are you my friend? Long time since I read your shares here. Hope all is well. Keep coming back, we need you. Hugs and Love. Tahir.
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New to the group
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Hi everyone, I am new here. I could write a 10 page story but I will keep it short. Last Saturday while at the Americade motorcycle event in lake George NY I overdosed droped like a rock ended up in the emergency room in Glensfalls. I overdosed on pain pills.You know the drill had to take more and more over t...
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i am responsible for my emotions
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Hi,,, this incident happened fifteen days ago !!!Its liek this situation Im in= I helped initiate a concept called Jazz Revivals,, a way of showing my love for this particular form of music. In Bangalore India this was not happeneing so Jazz Revivals quickly rose to recognition and some success !!! N...
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New Here
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Well, I find myself here again after at least 2 years. I have been to NA 3 times and got just over 30 days everytime. There are a lot of people that helped me through those times. After these years I am here again and I have a beautiful, peferct, sweet , amazing, baby girl named Liliana Joy! When I got pregna...
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Step by step
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Day by day, minute by minute we walk from the dark shadow of the valley of death into a new light with the spirit holding our hands. Keep ahold of that spirits hand don't let go take the walk into the newness of it all and enjoy the new smells, sounds and experiences life has to offer. Just hold on for today, I...
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Help please.......
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Glora here....I have traded and switched meetings all week now....and I am again asking for help. I have a good friend (I'm back home at mom's) that could really use some help and would like to have these next two nights off from chairing so that I can spend time with him. He gave so much to me in early reco...
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Something to think about before
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we put our foot in our mouths, " What would love do". I heard that today in a movie I am watching, something i've began to think about to myself also, just thought i'd share incase anyones stuck.
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I APOLOGIZE
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I forgot about the meeting tonight I had a long long day working out of town and got home late and then had side work going and completely forgot my responsibilty to chair the meeting, please forgive me I am hoping someone was able to cover.
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brand new here
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hey, just checking out this site. come visit my site. -- Edited by John at 23:59, 2007-07-16
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JUST FOR TODAY ( 7-17-07 )
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The Gift Of Desperation "Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until, in desperation, we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous." Basic Text, page 13 When we think of being desperate, we envision an undesirable state: a poor, bedraggled soul frantically c...
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Let's share our experiences on these quotes...
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We learn that the program won't work if we try to adapt the program to our lives; we must adapt our lives to the program. For 3 to 4 years in NA before I finally stopped relapsing I was trying to do exactly that... making a few meetings, thinking that now I've got it right by pickin' up the cliches of NA recov...
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Higher Power's Will (something I read today)
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In the long run, it's easier to carry out our Higher Power's will than our own. The good news of the Twelve Steps is that we don't have to continue trying to make self-will work. Attempting to make the rest of the world conform to what we think we want is a little like trying to push water uphill. It's not onl...
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JUST FOR TODAY ( 7-15-07 )
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Relations With Others "We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all." Step Eight All human beings struggle with self-centeredness. The chronic self-centeredness that lies at the very core of addiction makes that struggle doubly difficult for...
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I need people
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Let me start by saying I am new to this. I want to work on my recovery. I don't have much clean time in. I had 8 months because I was incarcerated. When I got released I used and I have been struggling with it for a few months again now. I have been in and out of jail several times. I don't want to go back. I...
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JUST FOR TODAY
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Patience "We were trapped by our need for the instant gratification that drugs gave us." "I want what I want, and I want it now!" That's about as patient as most of us ever got in our active addiction. The obsession and compulsio...
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travling in active addiction
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Hi, iv been trying to stay clean for the past 3 yrs or more and apart from the odd one or two month periods of sobrity iv been unsucsessfull.
I left Australia to travel around the world but had relapsed just before i left so started on the wrong foot to say the least. I abstained from using for a while unt...
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Need some advice
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hi I am new here. I have a sister who is a addict and I have tried to help her many times but I guess she is not ready for my help. I am wondering is there any help or meetings that me and my family can attend. We are having a really hard time with this and I would love for my parents especially to get more info. We d...
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What would you do.....
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Presently writing on my 4th Step. Always make sure I put my stepwork away. Well, I was in work yesterday and my husband calls me to tell me that my 7 year old hurt her eye at camp, but that she's okay. Oh - and by the way, I read your stepwork and it says you cheated on me. No lie! I feel violated. I have wor...
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