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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 -...

Dave R · Dave R

"We begin to see that God's love has been present all the time, just waiting for us to accept it." Basic Text, p. 47=God's love is the transforming power that drives our recovery. With that love, we find freedom from the hopeless, desperate cycle of using, self-hatred, and more using. With that love...

Dave R · Dave R

"...we accept responsibility for our problems and see that were equally responsible for our solutions."Basic Text, p. 97=Some of us, well accustomed to leaving our personal responsibilities to others, may attempt the same behavior in recovery. We quickly find out it doesn't work.For instance...

Dave R · Dave R

"We focus on anything that isn't going our way and ignore all the beauty in our lives." Basic Text, p. 80=It's easy to be grateful when everything runs smoothly. If we get a raise at work, we're grateful. If we get married, we're grateful. If someone surprises us with a nice present or an unasked fa...

Dave R · Dave R

"By shaping our thoughts with spiritual ideals, we are freed to become who we want to be."Basic Text, p. 105=Addiction shaped our thoughts in its own way. Whatever their shape may once have been, they became misshapen once our disease took full sway over our lives. Our obsession with drugs and self...

Dave R · Dave R

"Many of us would have had nowhere else to go if we could not have trusted NA groups and members."Basic Text, p. 84=Trusting people is a risk. Human beings are notoriously forgetful, unreliable, and imperfect. Most of us come from backgrounds where betrayal and insensitivity among friends were c...

Dave R · Dave R

"When we feel trapped or pressured, it takes great spiritual and emotional strength to be honest."Basic Text, p. 85=Many of us try to wiggle out of a difficult spot by being dishonest, only to have to humble ourselves later and tell the truth. Some of us twist our stories as a matter of course, even w...

sykntyrd · sykntyrd

I am new here and I need someone to talk to.

Dave R · Dave R

"We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable." Step One=The First Step begins with "we," and there's a reason for that. There is great strength in making a verbal admission of our powerlessness. And when we go to meetings and make this admission, w...

Dave R · Dave R

July 19Fulfilling our dreams"Dreams that we gave up long ago can now become realities."Basic Text, p. 71=All things begin with a dream. But how many of us fulfilled our dreams while using? Even if we managed to complete something we had started, our addiction usually robbed us of any pride in our ac...

bill2983 · bill2983

I have been in meetings for a number of years. I told my sponsor about this, and he didn't say specifically it was a relapse, but I'm not sure. I know most people would say it's not, but to me, it is. I have been drugs and alcohol free for a number of years, and I hadn't used nicotine for a number of years. Anywa...

Mike M · Mike M

For those of us living in the United States of America today celebrates our Nation's Declaration of Independence from a Government's tyranny and absolute Despotism. Because of this the foundation was laid of a Free country where an entity such as NA could form where those suffering from another for...

Dave R · Dave R

"That old nest of negativism followed me everywhere I went."Basic Text, p. 137=A negative attitude is the trademark of active addiction. Everything that occurred in our lives was someone or something else's fault. We had blaming others for our shortcomings down to a fine science. In recovery,...

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	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	312	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	15345	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	303	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	642	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	350	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	280	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	327	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	428	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	345	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	364	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	7416	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	365	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	339	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	237	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	391	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	463	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	286	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	595	Aug 9, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT August 9 The power of love (Preview) "We begin to see that God's love has been present all the time, just waiting for us to accept it." Basic Text, p. 47=God's love is the transforming power that drives our recovery. With that love, we find freedom from the hopeless, desperate cycle of using, self-hatred, and more using. With that love...	Dave R	0	375	Aug 9, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT August 8 Responsible recovery (Preview) "...we accept responsibility for our problems and see that were equally responsible for our solutions."Basic Text, p. 97=Some of us, well accustomed to leaving our personal responsibilities to others, may attempt the same behavior in recovery. We quickly find out it doesn't work.For instance...	Dave R	0	346	Aug 8, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT August 7 The gratitude list (Preview) "We focus on anything that isn't going our way and ignore all the beauty in our lives." Basic Text, p. 80=It's easy to be grateful when everything runs smoothly. If we get a raise at work, we're grateful. If we get married, we're grateful. If someone surprises us with a nice present or an unasked fa...	Dave R	0	379	Aug 7, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT August 5 The shape of our thoughts (Preview) "By shaping our thoughts with spiritual ideals, we are freed to become who we want to be."Basic Text, p. 105=Addiction shaped our thoughts in its own way. Whatever their shape may once have been, they became misshapen once our disease took full sway over our lives. Our obsession with drugs and self...	Dave R	0	395	Aug 5, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT August 3 Trusting people (Preview) "Many of us would have had nowhere else to go if we could not have trusted NA groups and members."Basic Text, p. 84=Trusting people is a risk. Human beings are notoriously forgetful, unreliable, and imperfect. Most of us come from backgrounds where betrayal and insensitivity among friends were c...	Dave R	0	387	Aug 3, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT Augus 2 Practicing honesty (Preview) "When we feel trapped or pressured, it takes great spiritual and emotional strength to be honest."Basic Text, p. 85=Many of us try to wiggle out of a difficult spot by being dishonest, only to have to humble ourselves later and tell the truth. Some of us twist our stories as a matter of course, even w...	Dave R	0	388	Aug 2, 2016 by Dave R
	I can't quit taking pills!! (Preview) I am new here and I need someone to talk to.	sykntyrd	3	472	Aug 1, 2016 by lenka11
	JFT July 20 Step One (Preview) "We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable." Step One=The First Step begins with "we," and there's a reason for that. There is great strength in making a verbal admission of our powerlessness. And when we go to meetings and make this admission, w...	Dave R	0	387	Jul 20, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT July 20 Fulfilling our dreams (Preview) July 19Fulfilling our dreams"Dreams that we gave up long ago can now become realities."Basic Text, p. 71=All things begin with a dream. But how many of us fulfilled our dreams while using? Even if we managed to complete something we had started, our addiction usually robbed us of any pride in our ac...	Dave R	0	440	Jul 19, 2016 by Dave R
	Is this a relapse? (Preview) I have been in meetings for a number of years. I told my sponsor about this, and he didn't say specifically it was a relapse, but I'm not sure. I know most people would say it's not, but to me, it is. I have been drugs and alcohol free for a number of years, and I hadn't used nicotine for a number of years. Anywa...	bill2983	31	970	Jul 17, 2016 by BigV
	Declaration of Independence from Active Addiction (Preview) For those of us living in the United States of America today celebrates our Nation's Declaration of Independence from a Government's tyranny and absolute Despotism. Because of this the foundation was laid of a Free country where an entity such as NA could form where those suffering from another for...	Mike M	4	494	Jul 10, 2016 by MIKEF
	JFT July 10 A positive attitude (Preview) "That old nest of negativism followed me everywhere I went."Basic Text, p. 137=A negative attitude is the trademark of active addiction. Everything that occurred in our lives was someone or something else's fault. We had blaming others for our shortcomings down to a fine science. In recovery,...	Dave R	0	364	Jul 10, 2016 by Dave R
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