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Meditation Revealed
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Ok, down and dirty, let's stop talking about Meditation and DO some!!!! Go here to download Step 11.1 and a Guided Meditation example, both FREE! https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x975u3rkl57oqnk/AABUuy8-GCpGHGPx1DE0ZsLOa?dl=0And please let me know how it works for you!! My email address is i...
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Sponsor and Politics
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Hi, first time poster. I have some years clean, working through step 11 currently, have a sponsor, go to meetings regularly. I have had the same sponsor for 8 years. During the past 1.5 years, due to the pandemic and politics, I have found myself on complete opposite "sides" of pandemic beliefs and p...
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Is Anyone Willing to Share their Story/ Journey with me?
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Hello Everyone, I wanted to ask permission to enter the chat and or meetings for a graduate school assignment. I am a masters level student currently taking an addictions and treatment planning class. We were asked to access groups and or meetings online in order to complete requirements for this we...
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My biggest fear
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What if I don't even know who I am? I have built all these walls within myself even against myself, so I don't even have to face my own emotions and traumas. My own guilts and shames. The only time I could ever break down these barriers and even begin to face them and get to know who I even am and what I feel was w...
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Online Sponsor being saught out
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Hello! My name is Dana. I am recent to NA (sober for 150 days) I am a recovered AA (from 2004). Due to COVID, I have been only able to participate in Online and zoom meetings. I am in Atlanta and seeking a guide in this stage of my recovery. Thank you! Love and Light!
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sponsor
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I am looking for a sponsor. I am having a hard time finding one. I'm 2 for 2 in that department. 1987 was when I went to AA. I had a sponsor but I couldn't talk about anything but alcohol without getting shut down. 4 yrs into the program I left because I couldn't be honest. I have been kind of stagnant. On June 2...
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Sparklit Board & GoDaddy Funding Request
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The Sparklit Board Funding has been expended. We are asking in the spirit of Tradition 7 for funding to continue the forums. Sparklit ActiveBoard Donations GoDaddy will be ready for renewal in May as well. We are looking for a solution for accepting donations. Last year we used my business PayPal a...
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New - and in need of advice
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21 year old addicted daughter totaled her car (financed in my name) on Tuesday and impulsively went out and financed another on Wednesday after being told I would not cosign again. Now they want $3000 a month for insurance and she ran away because I won't "help" her and cosign that loan. She's decide...
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Looking for sponsor
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If someone could get back to me in regards of sponsorship I would greatly appreciate it ... Im in desperate need of one Please !!!!!
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Roommate Search
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Hi My name is Shannon I'm Looking for a roommate. Iv had two in 6mounths not knowing they should have been in the program. I live in Va beach. My email Crazylabs10@aol.com . I am not a sponsor so I would like to make sure it would be someone in recover and c...
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Hello and blessings of another day
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It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening. I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more than two and a half decades of active drug addiction/alcoholism was devastating my life and everything and everyone in its path. I lifted my head from the floor...
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Online NA sponsor?
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Hello! Ive been newly introduced to my sober self and decided this time around to take some advice and find a sponsor to help me along the way. Ive had a decent bout with sobriety, but it was nothing conpared to the life ahead of me that im now going to be navigating. Ive gone to what im almost positive has be...
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Was someone looking for Red P Tulsa
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Was someone looking for Red P from Tulsa. Found him! Or am I going crazy?
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Looking for a sponsor
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Hello, I'm writing out hoping that I can find a sponsor. With covid going on, I've been going to a lot of online meetings which makes it more difficult to go to in-person meetings and find a sponsor there. I'm recently back in the program, having had a relapse after ~5 years sober and am actively attendin...
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Looking for any advise
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I posted my story on Al-anon as well and recived wonderful things. My wife belongs to NA and I would like to put this story out to you and see if maybe I can see another point of view.2020 has been the worst year for many, but it has been especially terrible for me. I got to start the year off with planning an in...
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If you could add steps to NA/AA
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Hi, my name is Jon, and I'm new here and just looking for knowledge and experience. My question is for anyone and everyone. If you could add steps to the 12 step programs, what would they be and why? What has helped you all stay clean and focused on recovery and self-improvement? Thank you for any replie...
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In desperate search of a online sponsor
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Hello everyone and anyone reading this, just found this thread, and yes I very well am swear of the fact that this is very old, in fact so old that the message just above my own, the one with the link, and that website dont even exist anymore, but Im writing with the most sincere and desperate hope that some...
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Female looking for an online NA Sponsor ASAP
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Looking for an online NA sponsor. To help me start the road to getting clean. I am nervous and afraid of change but the time to get clean is now. I recentley was arrested and some meth was found in my closet. In result I lost the most important thing in my life. My 11 year old daughter. I let her down and now it...
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Leaving detox
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I need a ride from peoria to galesburg, I have gas money, please help
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sponsorship
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Hi. I am looking for sponsor to work on 12 steps. Any help on this subject will be appreciated. I am from Poland. Thank u.
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jftna.org/jft March 30, 2020 God-centeredness - worth the risk
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March 30, 2020God-centerednessPage 92 "Gradually as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope." Basic Text, p. 95 What a glorious thing to have hope! Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us lived lives of utter hopelessness. We believed we were destined...
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jftna.org/jft March 29, 2020 Our own true will - worth the risk
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March 29, 2020Our own true willPage 91 "God's will for us consists of the very things we most value. God's will... becomes our own true will for ourselves." Basic Text, p. 48 It's human nature to want something for nothing. We may be ecstatic when a store cashier gives us back change for a twenty though...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 28, 2020 Facing feelings - worth the risk
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March 28, 2020Facing feelingsPage 90 "We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic." Basic Text, p. 30 While we were using, many of us were unable or unwilling to feel many emotions. If we were happy, we used to make us happier. If we wer...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 27, 2020 Looking for the assets - worth the risk
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March 27, 2020Looking for the assetsPage 89 "In accordance with the principles of recovery we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other." Basic Text, p. 11 How many times in our recovery have we misunderstood the behavior of another, immediately formed a judgment, applied a label,...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 26, 2020 Trusting a sponsor - worth the risk
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March 26, 2020Trusting a sponsor - worth the riskPage 88 "In seeking a sponsor, most members look for someone they feel they can learn to trust, someone who seems compassionate ..." IP No. 11, Sponsorship, Revised The idea of sponsorship may be new to us. We have spent many years without direction, r...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 25, 2020 I can't, but we can
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March 25, 2020I can't, but we canPage 87 "From the isolation of our addiction, we find a fellowship of people with a common bond... Our faith, strength, and hope come from people sharing their recovery..." Basic Text, p. 98 Admit no weakness, conceal all shortcomings, deny every failure, go it alon...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 24, 2020 Letting go of the past
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March 24, 2020Letting go of the pastPage 86 "It is not where we were that counts, but where we are going." Basic Text, p. 23 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 struggle to find new mean...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 23, 2020 God's gifts
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March 23, 2020God's giftsPage 85 "We do the footwork and accept what's being given to us freely on a daily basis." Basic Text, p. 47 Our relationship with our Higher Power is a two-way street. In prayer, we speak and God listens. When we meditate, we do our best to listen for the will of our Higher Power....
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jftna.org/jft/ March 22, 2020 The principle of self-support
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March 22, 2020The principle of self-supportPage 84 "In our addiction, we were dependent upon people, places, and things. We looked to them to support us and supply the things we found lacking in ourselves." Basic Text, pp. 70-71 In the animal kingdom, there is a creature that thrives on others. It i...
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jftna.org/jft/ March 21, 2020 A treatable illness
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March 21, 2020A treatable illnessPage 83 "Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs." Basic Text, p. 3 At our first meeting, we may have been taken aback at the way members shared about how the disease of addiction had affected their lives. We thought to ourselves, "Disease? I'v...
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