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Dave R · Dave R

"We never have to use again, no matter how we feel. All feelings will eventually pass."Basic Text, p. 82=It hurts like never before. You get out of bed after a sleepless night, talk to God, and still dont feel any better. "It will pass," a little voice tells you. "When?" you wonder, as you pace and mu...

Davethewave · Davethewave

Well, in two short months I know of two people killed riding motorcycles. If you own one or know of someone who does please think of moving on, or asking them to sell it. Believe me I know the excitement and passion that motorcyclists have. I use to race MX and have won many events, offroading. Road mach...

Mike M · Mike M

Started another day choosing to stay Clean in Recovery. 13,125 One Day at a Times Clean that's 35 years and 342 days, including 9 leap days, or 35 years, 48 weeks and 6 days. Ho-hum life? No way.

Dave R · Dave R

"When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us."Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. "Someday," we may think,...

MIKEF · MIKEF

Hello Folks! I have heard from the other side of MIP ( AA FORUM) that the owner of this site is suffering pretty badly from COPD...I LIFT HIM UP IN THOUGHT AND PRAYER,,

Dave R · Dave R

"We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us."Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatuation....

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...

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	JFT November 17 Walking through the pain (Preview) "We never have to use again, no matter how we feel. All feelings will eventually pass."Basic Text, p. 82=It hurts like never before. You get out of bed after a sleepless night, talk to God, and still dont feel any better. "It will pass," a little voice tells you. "When?" you wonder, as you pace and mu...	Dave R	0	436	Nov 17, 2016 by Dave R
	The danger of road bikes (Preview) Well, in two short months I know of two people killed riding motorcycles. If you own one or know of someone who does please think of moving on, or asking them to sell it. Believe me I know the excitement and passion that motorcyclists have. I use to race MX and have won many events, offroading. Road mach...	Davethewave	7	527	Nov 14, 2016 by Davethewave
	Woke up today, decided another day of NA Recovery was in order (Preview) Started another day choosing to stay Clean in Recovery. 13,125 One Day at a Times Clean that's 35 years and 342 days, including 9 leap days, or 35 years, 48 weeks and 6 days. Ho-hum life? No way.	Mike M	5	512	Nov 12, 2016 by BigV
	JFT November 12 Our own story (Preview) "When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us."Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. "Someday," we may think,...	Dave R	0	362	Nov 12, 2016 by Dave R
	The owner of this site... (Preview) Hello Folks! I have heard from the other side of MIP ( AA FORUM) that the owner of this site is suffering pretty badly from COPD...I LIFT HIM UP IN THOUGHT AND PRAYER,,	MIKEF	5	471	Nov 11, 2016 by BigV
	JFT November 11 From surrender to acceptance (Preview) "We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us."Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatuation....	Dave R	0	426	Nov 11, 2016 by Dave R
	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	464	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	600	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	432	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	451	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	474	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	22445	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	18084	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	523	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	555	Sep 24, 2016 by Dave R
	Looking for a ride to Amesbury mtg (Preview) Any females going Portsmouth to Amesbury	Hmr100	0	417	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	483	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	521	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	549	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	17947	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	543	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	995	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	510	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	531	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	639	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	616	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	587	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	546	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	8445	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	568	Aug 23, 2016 by rose924
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