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JFT May 18 Friends and amends--keeping it simple
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"We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."Step Nine=In every relationship, we don't always handle things the way we would have hoped. But friendships don't have to end when we make mistakes; instead, we can make amends. If we are sinc...
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JFT May 17 Defects
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"We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character."Step Six=After taking the Fifth Step, many of us spend some time considering "the exact nature of our wrongs" and the part they'd played in making us who we were. What would our lives be like without, say, our arrogance?Sure,...
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JFT May 16 Our higher power's will
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"God's will for us becomes our own true will for ourselves."Basic Text, p. 48=The Twelve Steps are a path to spiritual awakening. This awakening takes the form of a developing relationship with a loving Higher Power. Each succeeding step strengthens that relationship. As we continue to work th...
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JFT May 12 Living with spiritual experiences
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"For meditation to be of value, the results must show in our daily lives."Basic Text, p. 47=In working our program, we are given many indirect indications of a Higher Power's presence in our lives: the clean feeling that comes to so many of us in taking our Fifth Step; the sense that we are finally on the...
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JFT May 15 The ties that bind
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"As we approach this step, most of us are afraid that there is a monster inside of us that, if released, will destroy us."Basic Text, p. 27=Most of us are terrified to look at ourselves, to probe our insides. Were afraid that if we examine our actions and motives, well find a bottomless black pit of self...
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Need help with sponsor!
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HI all, I'm am addict with almost 1.5 years of recovery under my belt, im a first timer so I have no idea what I'm doing. I have nobody to go to for answers, so after a brief Google search I found this site. I hope I'm posting in the right forum for this question, but here goes.
So I've had my sponsor for mos...
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JFT May 14 Oops!
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"Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results."Basic Text, p. 23=Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guilt--at the very least, with frustration and impa...
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JFT May 13 Onward on the journey
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"The progression of recovery is a continuous uphill journey."Basic Text, p. 83=The longer we stay clean, the steeper and narrower our path seems to become. But God doesn't give us more than we can handle. No matter how difficult the road becomes, no matter how narrow, how winding the turns, there i...
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Help on helping a spouse
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My fiance has decided that he is ready to start getting help he needs. I just need help want to be there for him. He has decide to start taken NA classes. I have just never been threw any of this before and reaching out for help. I do not want to say or do wrong things to make him feel as though i am judging him in a...
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JFT May 11 Balancing the scales
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"A lot of our chief concerns and major difficulties come from our inexperience with living without drugs. Often when we ask an oldtimer what to do, we are amazed at the simplicity of the answer."Basic Text, p. 43=Finding balance in recovery is quite a bit like sitting down with a set of scales and a pil...
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JFT May 10 Becoming entirely ready
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"We...get a good look at what these defects are doing to our lives. We begin to long for freedom from these defects."Basic Text, p. 34=Becoming entirely ready to have our defects of character removed can be a long process, often taking place over the course of a lifetime. Our state of readiness grow...
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Worst NA meeting of my life today
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Hello everyone I went to an NA meeting for the first time tonight in over a year I was desperate to talk to release some of this guilt and it backfired on me. I told everyone that I recently discovered when I went on facebook that my highschool sweetheart who I introduced to heroin killed herself last octo...
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JFT May 9 Write about it?
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"We sit down with a notebook, ask for guidance, pick up our pen, and start writing."Basic Text, p. 30=When we're confused or in pain, our sponsor sometimes tells us to "write about it." Though we may groan as we drag out the notebook, we know that it will help. By laying it all out on paper, we give ourse...
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Using medical MJ to treat chronic pain while in recovery
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Im wondering how others feel about this topic. Ive been clean for more than a few years now, and I now find myself with chronic, debilitating back pain. I am facing the harsh reality that I need to take SOMETHING for the pain in order to function at all. Ive spent a year trying every option that did not inv...
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JFT May 8 Teachable
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"We have learned that it is okay to not know all the answers, for then we are teachable and can learn to live our new life successfully."Basic Text, p. 96=In a way, addiction is a great teacher. And if addiction teaches us nothing else, it will teach us humility. We hear it said that it took our very best...
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JFT May 7 Turning turmoil into peace
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"With the world in such a turmoil, I feel I have been blessed to be where I am."Basic Text, p. 145=Some days it doesn't pay to turn on the news, we hear so many stories about violence and mayhem. When we used, many of us grew accustomed to violence. Through the fog of our addiction, we rarely got too distu...
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JFT May 6 Are we having fun yet?
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"In time, we can relax and enjoy the atmosphere of recovery."Basic Text, p. 56=Imagine what would happen if a newcomer walked into one of our meetings and was met by a group of grim-faced people gripping the arms of their chairs with white knuckles. That newcomer would probably bolt, perhaps mutter...
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Recovery in wedding vows
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Hi all! I am so lucky and blessed to be getting remarried and recovery has everything to do with it. Addiction tore my marriage apart with a divorce in 2011 and recovery (4 years sober last week) has brought it back together. I want to incorporate my commitment to recovery/living clean in my marriag...
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JFt May 5 Any lengths
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'"...I was ready to go to any lengths to stay clean."Basic Text, p. 132="Any lengths?" newcomers ask. "What do you mean, any lengths?" Looking back at our active addiction and the lengths we were willing to go to in order to stay high can help to explain. Were we willing to drive many miles to get drug...
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Checking in
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It's been a busy winter. Recovery from the big C is going well. 6th month checkup next week. Higher Power's grace has put lots of folks in my path. Part of my treatment last fall involved "Rick Simpson" oil. It was a pretty interesting 6 weeks. thanks for keeping the light on and keeping it real in h...
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JFT May 4 What about the newcomer?
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"Each group has but one primary purpose--to carry the message to the addict who still suffers."Tradition Five=Our home group means a lot to us. After all, where would we be without our favorite NA meeting? Our group sometimes sponsors picnics or other activities. Often, home group members get t...
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JFT May 3 Sharing our gratitude
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"My gratitude speaks when I care and when I share with others the NA way."Gratitude Prayer=The longer we stay clean, the more we experience feelings of gratitude for our recovery. These feelings of gratitude aren't limited to particular gifts like new friends or the ability to be employed. More f...
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JFT May 2 Just maybe
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"There is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our recovery; this is an attitude of indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles."Basic Text, p. 18=When we first came to NA, many of us had great difficulty accepting the spiritual principles underlying this program-...
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JFT May 1 Self-worth and service
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"Being involved in service makes me feel worthwhile." =When most of us arrived in Narcotics Anonymous, we had very little self-worth left to salvage. Many members say that they began to develop self-esteem through being of service early in their recovery. Something just short of a miracle occu...
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JFT April 30 God does for us
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"Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves."Basic Text, p. 99=How often have we heard it said in meetings that "God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves?" At times we may get stuck in our recove...
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JFT April 29 What if?
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"Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. We learned to take whatever actions are necessary and to leave the results in the hands of our Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 94=In our active addiction, fear of the future and what might happen was a reality for many of us....
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JFT April 28 Who really gets better?
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"We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes. Our best thinking got us into trouble. We recognize the need for change."Basic Text, p. 55=When new in recovery, most of us had at least one person we just couldn't stand. We thought that person was the rudest, most obnoxious person in the program...
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JFT April 27 Recognizing and releasing resentments
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"We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today."Basic Text, p. 29=Many of us had trouble identifying our resentments when we were new in recovery. There we sat with our Fourth Step in front of us, thinking and thinking, finally deciding that we jus...
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JFT April 26 Self-acceptance
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"The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery."IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance=Most of us came to Narcotics Anonymous without much self-acceptance. We looked at the havoc we had wreaked in our active addiction, and we loathed ourselves. ...
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JFT April 25 Embracing reality
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"Recovery is a reality for us today."Basic Text, p. 101=Pain and misery were realities in our using lives. We were unwilling either to accept our living situation or to change what was unacceptable in our lives. We attempted to escape lifes pain by taking drugs, but using only compounded our troub...
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