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Daily Topic for 3/6/07.........................
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“We live a day at a time but also from moment to moment. When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably. Patience isn’t a strongpoint with us. That’s why we need our slogans and our N.A. friends to remind us to live the program just for today.” ...
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March 24 - Just For Today
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Just For Today March 24 Letting Go Of The Past "It is not where we were that counts, but where we are going." Basic Text p. 22 When we first find recovery, some of us feel shame or despair at calling ourselves "addicts" In the early days, we may be filled with both fear and hope as we st...
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Help
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Can someone help me please? I am extremely new at this. A week ago I was fine, and now I need help. I am all alone and no one knows. I am in Dallas and really need someone to talk to. What do I do? This is the first place I found online and thought I'd try. Thanks.
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Need To Share
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I had a very difficult time relationship wise this last one week. I had acted out on my anger to such extent that I ended up damaging my wife's laptop last week. I was shocked about my behavior the next day morning and felt exactly the way I had felt when I woke up the next morning after my last relapse.....
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(((Mlouise)))
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Hey Mystie, I have been thinking about you. Hope you are doing well. Still working on that pain book? It is helping me so much, I hope its working for you. Keep in touch we need you here! Sandra
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trusted servants needed
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MIP NA is still looking for ppl to take service postions to be filled if you are intrested please get back with me and we will go from there. Thank you MIP Manon -- Edited by rayne at 21:49, 2007-03-05
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Step study chats every other Friday starting tonight
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We will start with Step 1 tonight at 11PM EST. This will be every other Friday. Please join us in the chat room if you are online. Please check out http://www.louisvilleareana.org/SWGstep_one1.htm P.S. Rayne will also be doing tradition studies every other Thursday.
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I'd be away forawhile
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Hi family, I'd be away for a few days. Am goin' to my hometown on a visit to my parents. Take care, everyone, and stay blessed. Shall miss you all. Hugs & Love ~ Tahir.
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Feeling so sad
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Hi Everyone, I'm feeling so sad today. I ended a relationship approx. 3 months ago. He uses drugs and Alcoholic. I'm in Al-Anon and it really helps because I want to recover. I realize that I get addicted to people and treat people better most of the time than I treat myself. He is such a good guy...
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trudging
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hope all is well for you's been doing ok i guess. Lots going on in my world kids stuff's, my youngest daughter deciding to come live with me, that hasn't been for five years now, so i drove an houur out of town to get her, had to deal with her school...her dad....her dad...her dad...yikes. an...
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Flood (of life)
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http://www.twango.com/media/awakening.public/awakening.10061 Rain rain on my face It hasn't stopped raining for days My world is a flood Slowly I become one with the mud But if I can't swim after forty da...
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we accept responsibility for our problems and see that we're equally responsible for our solutions
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SO whats the solution? The twelve steps are a solution- our defects are removed. We put spiritual living first and learn to use patience, tolerance and humility in our daily affairs. Honesty, open-mindedness and willingness "HOW"- This might mean taking a daily inventory We rid oursel...
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A Starnger in my own house...
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Hello All, 23 days of total sobriety today. I was in rehab. for 3 weeks and am taking my first steps since I got out Sat. morning. I've attended 6 NA meetings and I have 90 meetings in 90 days to attend. I live in the city of Cairo in Egypt where NA meetings are abundant (what a relief). I got a sponsor yes...
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Thank you for the warm welcome.
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Thank you all for the really warm welcome i've received here, and yes, I am part of the NA program. I got a sponsor yesterday and he said I have 90 NA meetings in 90 days. It is sooo weird being sober, kinda fun but real scary. It's a new life that's for sure and everything is diffirent. My body s...
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It's Harder Than I Thought!
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Hello All, I've been clean for 22 days (from absolutely everything) now and that's the longest time that i've clean in my entire life. I have been using something or other since 1983. I am 40 years old and have been a heroin addict for 20 years. These are the first sober days of my life and I d...
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Addicted
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Hey, my name is Brian and I am an alcoholic and am addicted to opiate based pain killers and marijuana. I have been sober from alcohol for a while now but the other 2 is a different story. My DOC has always been pain killers, the pot I can quit pretty easy but the pills I am affraid I will have a problem with. I...
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Relapsed and lost
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Hi I just joined this forum because I really needed some help or inspiration to just get through today and move forward in my recovery again. I was clean for about 4 months and I decided that I could drink and be able to handle it because I hadn't drank in so long. Well boy was I wrong I drank alot of taqui...
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GLAD TO HAVE MET YOU
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((((((((((((((((((GUYS)))))))))))))))))) I'm Ally from Scotland, I'm an @op in Al-Anon room....I met some of you at the MIP Athon at the weekend...I just wanted to say, you have had a huge impact on my life, this week....lol I have grown so much over the last week...I have been through a rou...
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Day 1
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Hello, I had ten years and got all crazy on Vicodin. I can't imagine life without it now, this is very hard. Can't believe I'm back to day one again. At least I did it this time without heroin and bank robberies. Please, someone, tell me this will get easier
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My Recovery...
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Hello, This past year trying to recover from a 14 year mmt dependence and numerous active addictions, by myself, without the support of NA, or anyone who has been through it, has been an absolute nightmare. I was physically  , socially  , and spiritually  destroyed. F...
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Sharing my joy
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Hi family, wow what a bunch of new names on the message board! that's great! So sorry I haven't been around for a while, I have been so busy lattly. I bought a house this week! I'm so excited!!!!! Who would have thought coming from a long family line of welfare recipients I would be a home owne...
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The simple things we take for grantred
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last thursdsay afternoon I had a near death expierence, I was diagnosed COPD(Chronic Obstructive Pulmanary Disease) and pnemonia all at the same time I am already asthmatic. I took breathing for granted thought it was a given till I woke choking on phlem it was stuck in my throat I could not breathe G...
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March 16 Inventory
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"The purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to sort through the confusion and the contradiction of our lives so that we can find out who we really are." Basic Text p. 27 Using addicts are a confused and confusing bunch of people. It's hard to tell from one minute to the nex...
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terror stalking at NA and AA?
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did you ever hear of someone having to talk about something til they are DONE? in the rooms week after week I hear the same monloogues by the smae addicts on the same subject but this is what it is about .........tolerance of someone else's recovery it takes a lng time to heal some things I imagine b...
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I can't sleep. Can you help please.
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I'm new to this forum and happy to have found it.
I can't sleep.
I want to get on with my life and that includes getting a job but I can't sleep at night and need to nap during the day.
Can anyone give me an idea how nlong this might last?
I've been clean from heroin for two almost three months but t...
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just a bit of concern
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I have recently noticed post being posted with the wrong intentions this board to carry the message to the still suffering addict to meet and greet other addicts. I n noticing this I have seen posts posted outta sheer vingence that blurs the NA name.I suggest thtat post of this type be carefully recon...
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Have a great weekend i'm gone for a few
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days, have a big fishing trip on the Delta to attend and will return Sunday. By the grace of God and staying clean I am able to do really fun things and enjoy this life I have been given, may all the rest of you REAP the same benefits, you can as I have. Blessings......to all
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breaking up
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I met this woman 5 1/2 years ago .She introduced me to NA . My life has not been the same sence. The problem is that we are breaking up this is so hard. I know that this is something that must be done however it doesn't make it any easier.
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meetings
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Addiction is a very complicated condition to deal with, and no one recovery plan will ever be suitable for all people. I support addicts and alcoholics getting clean by WHATEVER METHOD best works for them. -- Edited by VILyNBlackthorne at 01:20, 2007-03-10
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I AM THE DISEASE OF ADDICTION
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I hate meetings. I hate higher power. I hate anyone with a program. To all who come in contact with me, I wish death and I wish you suffering. Allow me to introduce myself: I am the disease of addiction. Cunning, baffling and powerful. That's me. I have killed millions, and I am pleased. I love to catc...
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