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JFT March 27 Looking for assets
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"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, and neatly tucked the individual into a pig...
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JFT March 26 Trusting a sponsor--worth the risk
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"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, relying only on self-interest, suspecting everyone, t...
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JFT March 25 I can't, we can
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"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 alone--that was the creed many of us followe...
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JFT March 24 Letting go of the past
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"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 meaning in our lives. The past may seem inesc...
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JFT March 23 God's gifts
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"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. We know that we are responsibl...
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JFT March 22 The principle of self-support
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"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 is called a leech. It attaches itself to people and...
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JFT March 21 A treatable illness
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"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've just got a drug problem! What in the wo...
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JFT March 20 Higher power
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"Most of us have no trouble admitting that addiction had become a destructive force in our lives. Our best efforts resulted in ever greater destruction and despair. At some point, we realized that we needed the help of some Power greater than our addiction."Basic Text, p. 24Most of us know without...
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JFT March 19 Something valuable to share
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"A simple, honest message of recovery from addiction rings true."Basic Text, p. 51=You're in a meeting. The sharing has been going on for some time. One or two members have described their spiritual experiences in an especially meaningful way. Another has had us all rolling in the aisles with en...
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Question
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Does anyone know if I can get an email confirmation for attending an online meeting here.
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JFT March 18 The full message
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"There is a special feeling for addicts when they discover that there are other people who share their difficulties, past and present."Basic Text, pp. 55-56The wealth of our recovery is too good to keep to ourselves. Some of us believe that when we talk in meetings, we should remember the newcomer...
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JFT March 17 True courage
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"Those who make it through these times show a courage not their own."Basic Text, p. 86=Before coming to NA, many of us thought we were brave simply because we had never experienced fear. We had drugged all our feelings, fear among them, until we had convinced ourselves that we were tough, courageous...
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JFT 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 next what they...
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JFT March 15 Feeling a part of
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"The get-togethers after our meetings are good opportunities to share things that we didn't get to discuss during the meeting."Basic Text, p. 98=Active addiction set us apart from society, isolating us. Fear was at the core of that alienation. We believed that if we let others get to know us, the...
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Adderall addiction
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Hi, Anyone out there dealing with adder all addiction. Suggestions to quit? Long term use, I have been trying to get of of this horrible drug for years!
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JFT March 14 Relationships
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"Also, our inventories usually include material on relationships."Basic Text, p. 29=What an understatement this is! Especially in later recovery, entire inventories may focus on our relationships with others. Our lives have been filled with relationships with lovers, friends, parents, c...
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JFT March 13 That one special person
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"A sponsor is not necessarily a friend, but may be someone in whom we confide. We can share things with our sponsor that we might not be comfortable sharing in a meeting."IP No. 11, Sponsorship, RevisedWe've asked someone to sponsor us, and the reasons we have for asking that particular person are a...
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JFT March 12 Getting out of the rut
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"Many times in our recovery, the old bugaboos will haunt us. Life may again become meaningless, monotonous, and boring."Basic Text, p. 78Sometimes it seems as though nothing changes. We get up and go to the same job every day. We eat dinner at the same time every night. We attend the same meetings...
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JFT March 11 Lightening the load
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"It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another. It will make us feel better to clean up our lives..."Basic Text, p. 38 Sometimes we need something tangible to help us understand what holding a resentment is doing to us. We may not be aware of how destructive resentments actually ar...
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JFT March 10 Our own recovery
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"The steps are our solution. They are our survival kit. They are our defense against addiction, a deadly disease. Our steps are the principles that make our recovery possible."Basic Text, p. 19=There's lots to like in Narcotics Anonymous. The meetings, for one, are great. We get to see our fri...
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JFT March 9 Small things
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"In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills."Basic Text, p. 90=Making mountains out of molehills seems to be our specialty. Have you heard it said that to an addict, a flat tire is a traumatic event? Or how about those of us who forget all pretense of prin...
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online sponser
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hi there, im just new back to the rooms, in the past ive only done this stuff half hearted, but this time im gonna put my all into it,, was wondering if there is anyway i can get a online sponsor, maybe for the duration or at least till i can get one in real,, many thanks in advance
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JFT March 8 Learning to love ourselves
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"What we want most is to feel good about ourselves."Basic Text, p. 101="We'll love you until you can learn to love yourself." These words, heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerly--the day when we'll know how to love ourselves.Self-esteem--we all want this elusive qu...
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JFT March 7 Priorities
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"The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we may forget that our first priority is to stay clean."Basic Text, p. 43=Things can get really good in our recovery. Perhaps we've found our soul mate, built a rewarding career, started a family. Maybe our relationships with our family members h...
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JFT March 6 Rationalizing away our recovery
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"As a result of the Twelve Steps, I'm not able to hold on to old ways of deceiving myself." =We all rationalize. Sometimes we know we are rationalizing, admit we are rationalizing, yet continue to behave according to our rationalizations! Recovery can become very painful when we decide that, for...
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Thanks!
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Hi Everyone, On behalf of the transition committee, I just wanted to thank everyone for your donations! After the last donation drive we had we came out about a year ahead on our fees to Sparklit, who is the host of our board, so we decided to stop taking donations for a little while.We may have another c...
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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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