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Dave R · Dave R

"It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 91=There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: "If you want to make God laugh, make plans." When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but there's a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if al...

Dave R · Dave R

Our disease is so cunning that it can get us into impossible situations.Basic Text, p. 83=Some of us say, "My disease is talking to me." Others say, "My head won't turn off." Still others refer to the committee in my mind or the monkey on my back. Let's face it. We suffer from an incurable malad...

Dave R · Dave R

This decision demands continued acceptance, ever-increasing faith, and a daily commitment to recovery.IP No. 14, One Addicts Experience=Sometimes, we really live the Third Step--and its great! We don't regret the past, we aren't afraid of the future, and were generally pleased with the pre...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our best thinking got us into trouble....Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes."Basic Text, p. 55=In active addiction, the world probably looked like a horrible place.Using helped us tolerate the world we saw.Today, however, we understand that the worlds condition wasn't rea...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our egos, once so large and dominant, now take a back seat because we are in harmony with a loving God. We find that we lead richer, happier, and much fuller lives when we lose self-will."Basic Text, p. 105=Addiction and self-will go hand in hand. The unmanageability that we admitted to in Step On...

gettingstronger · gettingstronger

Greetings all! This is my first time on this site and I am already grateful. It is just nice to have somewhere to call "home" once the meetings are over. I have a question. My homegroup is attempting to introduce keytag explainations into our keytag presentation format. But, we want to do s...

trudgin · trudgin

Interestingly enough... I have started the steps over with a new sponsor. In the step working guide on step 1 in the "Denial" section, there's a question that I am not understanding this time: "Am I comparing a current manifestation of my addiction to the way my life was before I got cl...

Dave R · Dave R

"We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic."Basic Text, p. 30=A common complaint about the Fourth Step is that it makes us painfully conscious of our defects of character. We may be tempted to falter in our program of recovery. Th...

Dave R · Dave R

"The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves. We don't have to be religious to accept this idea. The point is that we open our minds to believe."Basic Text, p. 24=In a lifelong process of coming to believe, our understanding of God will change. T...

Hmr100 · Hmr100

Any females going Portsmouth to Amesbury

Dave R · Dave R

"In accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other."Basic Text, p. 11=Let's face it: In Narcotics Anonymous, we live in a glass house of sorts. Our fellow members know more about our personal lives than anyone has ever known before. They k...

Dave R · Dave R

?In NA, our joys are multiplied by sharing good days; our sorrows are lessened by sharing the bad. For the first time in our lives, we don't have to experience anything alone."IP No. 16, For the Newcomer=When we practice using the steps and the other tools of our program to work through our hardships...

Dave R · Dave R

"We may think that we have done enough by writing about our past. We cannot afford this mistake."Basic Text, p. 32=Some of us aren't too keen on writing out our Fourth Step; others take it to an obsessive extreme. To our sponsor's growing dismay, we inventory ourselves again and again. We discover...

Hemi · Hemi

Someone once told me what the difference was between shortcomings and defects of character. They put it in a very succinct way and it sounded like an N.A saying so I was wondering if anyone knows it and id not can someone please explain it to me? Thanks Hemi

Dave R · Dave R

"We learn to become flexible...As new things are revealed, we feel renewed."Basic Text, p. 102="Flexibility" was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. We'd become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the softer, subtler, more infinitely varied pleasure...

Dave R · Dave R

"We find that we suffer from a disease, not a moral dilemma. We were critically ill, not hopelessly bad." Basic Text, p. 16=For many of us, Narcotics Anonymous was the answer to a personal puzzle of long standing. Why did we always feel alone, even in a crowd, we wondered? Why did we do so many crazy, s...

Dave R · Dave R

"Humility is a by-product that allows us to grow and develop in an atmosphere of freedom and removes the fear of becoming known by our employers, families, or friends as addicts."Basic Text, pp. 75-76=Many of us may not have understood the idea that "anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our t...

Dave R · Dave R

"Daily practice of our Twelve Step program enables us to change from what we were to people guided by a Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 86=Who have we been, and who have we become? There are a couple of ways to answer this question. One is very simple: We came to Narcotics Anonymous as addicts, our add...

Dave R · Dave R

"We become able to make wise and loving decisions based on principles and ideals that have real value in our lives."Basic Text, p. 105= Addiction gave us a certain set of values, principles we applied in our lives. "You pushed me," one of those values told us, "so I pushed back, hard." "It's mine" wa...

Laurakc · Laurakc

My name is Laura, I have 42 months clean. I work A LOT (3 JOBS) as a result I do not get to fellowship much but I do work my steps and I am finished with step six and need a sponsor to go over it with me so I can go on and don't get complacent on my step work. Please and thanks... laura, addict missouri

Dave R · Dave R

I will be traveling Aug 27-31 and may have limited internet access. If anyone else wants to post the JTFs, be my guest. thanks

New Member looking for guidance · JaradW

Hi, I am a new member who is looking to start a journey to living a clean lifestyle. I started using pain killers recreationally 5-6 years ago and over the years slowly but gradually increased usage as they became more easily accessible. Over the last year I have found that my life has become really stre...

BillW15 · BillW15

I'm new on this forum, more of an old-timer AA person, whose drug of choice was alcohol, and secondarily marijuana. Been sober and straight 29 years. So I don't know so much about the NA world and its various addictions and recovery methods. I have a high school friend whose son went through some sort...

rose924 · rose924

Can someone recommend a good inpatient program near Warwick, RI? My nephew has hit yet another bottom. A scary one, he is definitely 'qualified' for inpatient help. And willing...for now. His mom has asked me for help bc I've been clean a while. I don't know the local rehabs near Warwick, RI so I'm ask...

Dave R · Dave R

"This is our road to spiritual growth. We change every day...This growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer."Basic Text, p. 37=Our spiritual condition is never static; if it's not growing, it's decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress will lose its upward momentum. ...

Dave R · Dave R

"We found that we do not recover physically, mentally, or spiritually overnight."Basic Text, p. 28=Have you ever approached a recovery celebration with the feeling that you should be further along in your recovery than you are? Maybe you have listened to newcomers sharing in meetings, members...

Dave R · Dave R

"We don't have to settle for the limitations of the past. We can examine and reexamine our old ideas."Basic Text, p. 11=Most of us come to the program with a multitude of self-imposed limitations that prevent us from realizing our full potential, limitations that impede our attempts to find the val...

Dave R · Dave R

"Something inside cries out, 'Enough, enough, I've had enough,' and then they are ready to take that first and often most difficult step toward dealing with their disease." =Have we really had enough? This is the crucial question we must ask ourselves as we prepare to work the First Step in Narcoti...

Dave R · Dave R

"Most of us pray when we are hurting. We learn that if we pray regularly, we won't be hurting as often or as intensely."Basic Text, p. 45=Regular prayer and meditation are two more key elements in our new pattern of living. Our active addiction was more than just a bad habit waiting to be broken by f...

ipisors · ipisors

Please, please, do not consider this post the start of a huge argument. I'm asking this because I SERIOUSLY need good advice from people who know what they're doing, not just anyone with an opinion. Although I probably use alcohol more than I should, my #1 priority - by a long shot, with good reasons -...

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	JFT November 9 The best-laid plans (Preview) "It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 91=There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: "If you want to make God laugh, make plans." When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but there's a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if al...	Dave R	0	203	Nov 9, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT October 22 Look who's talking (Preview) Our disease is so cunning that it can get us into impossible situations.Basic Text, p. 83=Some of us say, "My disease is talking to me." Others say, "My head won't turn off." Still others refer to the committee in my mind or the monkey on my back. Let's face it. We suffer from an incurable malad...	Dave R	0	309	Oct 22, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT October 21 God's will today (Preview) This decision demands continued acceptance, ever-increasing faith, and a daily commitment to recovery.IP No. 14, One Addicts Experience=Sometimes, we really live the Third Step--and its great! We don't regret the past, we aren't afraid of the future, and were generally pleased with the pre...	Dave R	0	185	Oct 21, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT October 11 Eyeglasses and attitudes (Preview) "Our best thinking got us into trouble....Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes."Basic Text, p. 55=In active addiction, the world probably looked like a horrible place.Using helped us tolerate the world we saw.Today, however, we understand that the worlds condition wasn't rea...	Dave R	0	219	Oct 11, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT October 3 Losing our ego (Preview) "Our egos, once so large and dominant, now take a back seat because we are in harmony with a loving God. We find that we lead richer, happier, and much fuller lives when we lose self-will."Basic Text, p. 105=Addiction and self-will go hand in hand. The unmanageability that we admitted to in Step On...	Dave R	0	229	Oct 3, 2016 by Dave R
	Keytag Explainations - PLEASE HELP (Preview) Greetings all! This is my first time on this site and I am already grateful. It is just nice to have somewhere to call "home" once the meetings are over. I have a question. My homegroup is attempting to introduce keytag explainations into our keytag presentation format. But, we want to do s...	gettingstronger	8	18875	Oct 1, 2016 by Davethewave
	What's "current manifestation"... (Preview) Interestingly enough... I have started the steps over with a new sponsor. In the step working guide on step 1 in the "Denial" section, there's a question that I am not understanding this time: "Am I comparing a current manifestation of my addiction to the way my life was before I got cl...	trudgin	11	12883	Sep 27, 2016 by Davethewave
	JFT September 25 Fearing our feelings (Preview) "We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic."Basic Text, p. 30=A common complaint about the Fourth Step is that it makes us painfully conscious of our defects of character. We may be tempted to falter in our program of recovery. Th...	Dave R	0	275	Sep 25, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT September 24 A growing concept of God (Preview) "The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves. We don't have to be religious to accept this idea. The point is that we open our minds to believe."Basic Text, p. 24=In a lifelong process of coming to believe, our understanding of God will change. T...	Dave R	0	268	Sep 24, 2016 by Dave R
	Looking for a ride to Amesbury mtg (Preview) Any females going Portsmouth to Amesbury	Hmr100	0	239	Sep 23, 2016 by Hmr100
	JFT September 23 Dealing with gossip (Preview) "In accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other."Basic Text, p. 11=Let's face it: In Narcotics Anonymous, we live in a glass house of sorts. Our fellow members know more about our personal lives than anyone has ever known before. They k...	Dave R	0	293	Sep 23, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT September 19 Fellowship (Preview) ?In NA, our joys are multiplied by sharing good days; our sorrows are lessened by sharing the bad. For the first time in our lives, we don't have to experience anything alone."IP No. 16, For the Newcomer=When we practice using the steps and the other tools of our program to work through our hardships...	Dave R	0	291	Sep 19, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT September 17 Going beyond step five (Preview) "We may think that we have done enough by writing about our past. We cannot afford this mistake."Basic Text, p. 32=Some of us aren't too keen on writing out our Fourth Step; others take it to an obsessive extreme. To our sponsor's growing dismay, we inventory ourselves again and again. We discover...	Dave R	0	288	Sep 17, 2016 by Dave R
	Defects of character/ Shortcomings (Preview) Someone once told me what the difference was between shortcomings and defects of character. They put it in a very succinct way and it sounded like an N.A saying so I was wondering if anyone knows it and id not can someone please explain it to me? Thanks Hemi	Hemi	14	14527	Sep 17, 2016 by Oja
	JFT September 11 Bendinjg with the wind (Preview) "We learn to become flexible...As new things are revealed, we feel renewed."Basic Text, p. 102="Flexibility" was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. We'd become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the softer, subtler, more infinitely varied pleasure...	Dave R	0	279	Sep 11, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT September 5 A disease, not a dilemma (Preview) "We find that we suffer from a disease, not a moral dilemma. We were critically ill, not hopelessly bad." Basic Text, p. 16=For many of us, Narcotics Anonymous was the answer to a personal puzzle of long standing. Why did we always feel alone, even in a crowd, we wondered? Why did we do so many crazy, s...	Dave R	1	594	Sep 5, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT September 3 Anonymity expressed as humility (Preview) "Humility is a by-product that allows us to grow and develop in an atmosphere of freedom and removes the fear of becoming known by our employers, families, or friends as addicts."Basic Text, pp. 75-76=Many of us may not have understood the idea that "anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our t...	Dave R	0	322	Sep 3, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT September 2 (Preview) "Daily practice of our Twelve Step program enables us to change from what we were to people guided by a Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 86=Who have we been, and who have we become? There are a couple of ways to answer this question. One is very simple: We came to Narcotics Anonymous as addicts, our add...	Dave R	0	256	Sep 2, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT September 1 (Preview) "We become able to make wise and loving decisions based on principles and ideals that have real value in our lives."Basic Text, p. 105= Addiction gave us a certain set of values, principles we applied in our lives. "You pushed me," one of those values told us, "so I pushed back, hard." "It's mine" wa...	Dave R	0	300	Aug 30, 2016 by Dave R
	I NEED A SPONSOR WHO CAN WORK ONLINE OR BY PHONE PLEASE (Preview) My name is Laura, I have 42 months clean. I work A LOT (3 JOBS) as a result I do not get to fellowship much but I do work my steps and I am finished with step six and need a sponsor to go over it with me so I can go on and don't get complacent on my step work. Please and thanks... laura, addict missouri	Laurakc	3	401	Aug 27, 2016 by Mike M
	JFT posting (Preview) I will be traveling Aug 27-31 and may have limited internet access. If anyone else wants to post the JTFs, be my guest. thanks	Dave R	2	313	Aug 27, 2016 by Davethewave
	New Member looking for guidance (Preview) Hi, I am a new member who is looking to start a journey to living a clean lifestyle. I started using pain killers recreationally 5-6 years ago and over the years slowly but gradually increased usage as they became more easily accessible. Over the last year I have found that my life has become really stre...	JaradW	2	341	Aug 26, 2016 by Dave R
	Suboxone and sobriety (Preview) I'm new on this forum, more of an old-timer AA person, whose drug of choice was alcohol, and secondarily marijuana. Been sober and straight 29 years. So I don't know so much about the NA world and its various addictions and recovery methods. I have a high school friend whose son went through some sort...	BillW15	24	7095	Aug 25, 2016 by Davethewave
	Urgent need for RI Inpatient rehab for 20yo nephew (Preview) Can someone recommend a good inpatient program near Warwick, RI? My nephew has hit yet another bottom. A scary one, he is definitely 'qualified' for inpatient help. And willing...for now. His mom has asked me for help bc I've been clean a while. I don't know the local rehabs near Warwick, RI so I'm ask...	rose924	3	344	Aug 23, 2016 by rose924
	JFT August 16 Up or down (Preview) "This is our road to spiritual growth. We change every day...This growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer."Basic Text, p. 37=Our spiritual condition is never static; if it's not growing, it's decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress will lose its upward momentum. ...	Dave R	0	312	Aug 16, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT August 15 Over time, not overnight (Preview) "We found that we do not recover physically, mentally, or spiritually overnight."Basic Text, p. 28=Have you ever approached a recovery celebration with the feeling that you should be further along in your recovery than you are? Maybe you have listened to newcomers sharing in meetings, members...	Dave R	1	214	Aug 15, 2016 by kitty doyle
	JFT August 14 Letting go of our limitations (Preview) "We don't have to settle for the limitations of the past. We can examine and reexamine our old ideas."Basic Text, p. 11=Most of us come to the program with a multitude of self-imposed limitations that prevent us from realizing our full potential, limitations that impede our attempts to find the val...	Dave R	0	360	Aug 14, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT August 12 Enough (Preview) "Something inside cries out, 'Enough, enough, I've had enough,' and then they are ready to take that first and often most difficult step toward dealing with their disease." =Have we really had enough? This is the crucial question we must ask ourselves as we prepare to work the First Step in Narcoti...	Dave R	0	436	Aug 12, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT August 10 Regular prayer and meditation (Preview) "Most of us pray when we are hurting. We learn that if we pray regularly, we won't be hurting as often or as intensely."Basic Text, p. 45=Regular prayer and meditation are two more key elements in our new pattern of living. Our active addiction was more than just a bad habit waiting to be broken by f...	Dave R	0	264	Aug 10, 2016 by Dave R
	Using AA out of necessity, as an N/A person (Preview) Please, please, do not consider this post the start of a huge argument. I'm asking this because I SERIOUSLY need good advice from people who know what they're doing, not just anyone with an opinion. Although I probably use alcohol more than I should, my #1 priority - by a long shot, with good reasons -...	ipisors	11	569	Aug 9, 2016 by Dave R
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