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JFT March 5 From rude awakening to spiritual awakening
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"When a need arises for us to admit our powerlessness, we may first look for ways to exert power against it. After exhausting these ways, we begin sharing with others and find hope."Basic Text, p. 82=Weve sometimes heard it said in our meetings that "rude awakenings lead to spiritual awakenings." ...
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JFT March 4 The process
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"This program has become a part of me...I understand more clearly the things that are happening in my life today. I no longer fight the process."Basic Text, p. 127In active addiction, things happened seemingly without rhyme or reason. We just did things, often without knowing why or what the resu...
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JFT March 3 Relapse
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"There will be times, however, when we really feel like using. We want to run, and we feel lousy. We need to be reminded of where we came from and that it will be worse this time. This is when we need the program the most."Basic Text, p. 81=If we're contemplating a relapse, we should think our using thro...
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JFT March 2 Success
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"Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar."Basic Text, p. 14Before coming to NA, few of us had much experience with success. Every attempt to stop using on our own had ended in failure. We had begun to give up hope of finding any relief from active addiction. We had grown accustomed to fai...
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JFT March 1 Anxiety attack
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"[The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it."Basic Text, p. 27=Ever had a panic attack? Everywhere we turn, lifes demands overwhelm us. We're paralyzed, and we don't know what to do about it. How do we break an anxiety attack?First, we sto...
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JFT February 28 The greatest gift
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"Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future."Basic Text, p. 96=When we begin coming to meetings, we hear other addicts talking about the gifts they have received as a result of this program, things we never thought of as gifts before. One such gift is the renewed abili...
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Recovery Coaching
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Hi Everyone, My name is Jennifer and I'm an alcoholic/addict. I'm clean and sober today, and I'm also a recovery coach student. I'd never heard of recovery coaching back in the day, and I wonder if one might have been helpful. I'd like to be for others what I wish I'd had - a partner on the path. I am req...
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JFT February 26 Remorse
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"The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse."Basic Text, p. 39=Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to consider. Our remorse was often inte...
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JFT February 25 Sick as our secrets
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"It would be tragic to write [out an inventory only to] shove it in a drawer. These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure."Basic Text, p. 32=How many times have we heard it said that we are only as sick as our secrets? While many members choose not to use meetings to share the intimate d...
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John
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Hi all.
I just heard that John, our administrator has left on The Onward Journey.
Thank you for keeping me informed Davethewave.
More details in how MIP will be faring will be appreciated.
Thanks and a great day to all.
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Hi all.
I just heard that John, our administrator has left on The Onward Journey.
More details will be appreciated.
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JFT February 22 God's will or mine?
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"We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."Step Ten In Narcotics Anonymous, we've found that the more we live in harmony with our Higher Power's will for us, the greater the harmony in our lives. We use the Tenth Step to help us maintain that harmony. On a d...
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JFT February 21 Self-pity or recovery--it's our choice
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"Self-pity is one of the most destructive of defects; it will drain us of all positive energy."Basic Text, p. 80=In active addiction, many of us used self-pity as a survival mechanism. We didn't believe there was an alternative to living in our disease--or perhaps we didn't want to believe. As lon...
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JFT February 20 Powerlessness and personal responsibility
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"Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems."Basic Text, p. 13=When we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, we give away all of our personal power. We need to remember that we are powerless over our addiction, not our personal be...
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Looking for a Dependable Online Sponsor
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Hello- I have been unable to find a dependable sponsor to help me with my NA recovery. I currently live in New Mexico but have an open CPS case in California for my daughter. On my case plan, they have requested that I find a sponsor and submit name and phone number to my child's social worker for proof that...
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JFT February 17 Carrying the message not the addict
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They can be analyzed, counseled, reasoned with, prayed over, threatened, beaten, or locked up, but they will not stop until they want to stop.Basic Text, p. 65=Perhaps one of the most difficult truths we must face in our recovery is that we are as powerless over another's addiction as we are over our o...
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Having trouble sharing at meetings
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Hello all, I go to about 4-5 meetings a week and currently have 26 days clean from all mood and mind altering substances. I'm working on getting a sponsor but I have a deep fear to share or contribute on any topic during a meeting. I identify with almost everything that people share about but when it comes...
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JFT February 16 Faithful feelings
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"When we refuse to accept the reality of today, we are denying faith in our Higher Power. This can only bring more suffering."IP No. 8, Just for Today=Some days just aren't the way we wish they would be. Our problems may be as simple as a broken shoelace or having to stand in line at the supermarket. O...
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7th Tradition request for contributions to support MIP Boards
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In keeping with the Seventh Tradition that states "Every group should be self supporting", the MIP transition committee, voted to solicit contributions from each MIP Board to clear a billing from the Vendor that hosts the Miracle in Progress Boards . This billing indicates that ther...
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JFT February 15 A spiritual awakening
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"The last thing we expected was an awakening of the spirit." Basic Text, p. 49 Few of us came to our first Narcotics Anonymous meeting aching to take a personal inventory or believing that a spiritual void existed in our souls. We had no inkling that we were about to embark on a journey which would awak...
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JFT February 14 Honesty and spirituality
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"The right to a God of your understanding is total and without any catches. Because we have this right, it is necessary to be honest about our belief if we are to grow spiritually."Basic Text, pp. 25-26=In meetings, over refreshments, in talks with our sponsor, we hear our NA friends talking about th...
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JFT February 13 The ties that bind
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"As long as the ties that bind us together are stronger than those that would tear us apart, all will be well."Basic Text, p. 60=Many of us feel that without NA we would surely have died from our disease. Hence, its existence is our very lifeline. However, disunity is an occasional fact of life in Narc...
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JFT February 12 Living in the moment
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"We regretted the past, dreaded the future, and weren't too thrilled about the present."Basic Text, p. 7=Until we experience the healing that happens when we work the Twelve Steps, it is doubtful that we can find a statement more true than the quote above. Most of us come to NA hanging our heads in sha...
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JFT February 11 Curse into a blessing
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"We have become very grateful in the course of our recovery...We have a disease, but we do recover."Basic Text, p. 8Active addiction was no picnic; many of us barely came out of it alive. But ranting against the disease, lamenting what it has done to us, pitying ourselves for the condition it has left...
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JJFT February 10 Fun!
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"In recovery, our ideas of fun change." Basic Text, p. 107 In retrospect, many of us realize that when we used, our ideas of fun were rather bizarre. Some of us would get dressed up and head for the local club. We would dance, drink, and do other drugs until the sun rose. On more than one occasion, gun ba...
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JFT February 9 Self-acceptance
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When we accept ourselves, we can accept others into our lives, unconditionally, probably for the first time. IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance From our earliest memories, many of us felt like we never belonged. No matter how big the gathering, we always felt apart from the crowd. We had a hard time fitt...
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JFT February 8 What is a sponsor?
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"an NA sponsor is a member of Narcotics Anonymous, living our program of recovery, who is willing to build a special, supportive, one-on-one relationship with us."IP No. 11, Sponsorship, Revised=What is a sponsor? You know: That nice person with whom you had coffee after your first meeting....
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JFT February 4 Feeling good isn't the point
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"For us, recovery is more than just pleasure." Basic Text, p. 43 In our active addiction, most of us knew exactly how we were going to feel from one day to the next. All we had to do was read the label on the bottle or know what was in the bag. We planned our feelings, and our goal for each day was to feel go...
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JFT February 7 This is not a test
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"...we have found a loving, personal God to whom we can turn." Basic Text, p. 27 Some of us come into recovery with the impression that life's hardships are a series of cosmic tests designed to teach us something. This belief is readily apparent when something traumatic happens and we wail, "My Hi...
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JFT February 6 I can't, we can
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"We had convinced ourselves that we could make it alone and proceeded to live life on that basis. The results were disastrous and, in the end, each of us had to admit that self-sufficiency was a lie." Basic Text, p. 62 "I can't, but we can." This simple but profound truth applies initially to our firs...
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