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JFT June 23 Surrender
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"We didnt stumble into this fellowship brimming with love, honesty, open-mindedness, or willingness...When we were beaten, we became willing."Basic Text, p. 20=Surrender may be the necessary foundation for recovery, but sometimes we fight it. Most of us look back after some clean time and won...
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JFT June 22 Accepting life as it is
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"In our recovery, we find it essential to accept reality. Once we can do this, we do not find it necessary to use drugs in an attempt to change our perceptions."Basic Text, p. 90=Drugs used to buffer us from the full force of life. When we stop using drugs and enter recovery, we find ourselves confront...
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JFT June 21 New levels of honesty
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"We have been experts at self-deception and rationalization."Basic Text, p. 28=When we come to our first meeting and hear that we must be honest, we may think, "Well now, that shouldn't be too difficult. All I have to do is stop lying." To some of us, this comes easily. We no longer have to lie to our em...
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Help
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I've been clean for 1 year 4 months. Had to have a hysterectomy on the 9th. Because of gastric bypass can't take nsaids or Tylenol which is how I got on this road. Doctor gave me oxy. At first okay. Then started taking more than prescribed because was in a lot of pain. Incisions infected. Freaked out. Stop...
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JFT June 20 Meditation for beginners
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"For some, prayer is asking for God's help; meditation is listening for Gods answer...Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us."Basic Text, pp. 46-47="Be patient when you're learning to meditate," many of us were told. "It take...
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How long do I 'heve to' go to meetings?
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JFT June 19 A sense of humor
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"We find that when we lose self-obsession, we are able to understand what it means to be happy, joyous, and free." Basic Text, p. 107=The laughter in our meetings often surprises the newcomer. As a group, we appreciate the healing that healthy laughter brings. Even if we are deeply troubled, th...
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JFT June 18 Indirect amends
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"Indirect amends may be necessary where direct ones would be unsafe or endanger other people."Basic Text, p. 41=When we used, we allowed nothing to stand in the way of that next high. As a result, many of us didn't always know precisely whom we had injured, either financially or emotionally. When i...
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JFT June 17 Walls
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"Reaching out is the beginning of the struggle that will set us free. It will break down the walls that imprison us."Basic Text, p. 83=Many of us came to NA emotionally shattered. Years of using people and allowing them to use us had taken their toll on our ability to trust anyone, ourselves included...
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... to Survive or to Thrive!?
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. .....a fairly relevant reading for me today, recently I've been realizing a deep-seated block in my life,,, recovering from an affliction has become my 'normal'. As a child, it was not uncommon to be dealing with, recovering from one sort of assault or another, it became my 'normal' state as I gre...
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JFT June 16 Accepting life
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"Some things we must accept, others we can change. The wisdom to know the difference comes with growth in our spiritual program."Basic Text, p. 95=It's relatively easy to accept the things we like--it's the things we don't like that are hard to accept. But remaking the world and everyone in it...
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JFT June 15 Resistance to change
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"Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing, or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for the unknown."Basic Text, p. 34=We have often heard it said that "when the pain of remaining the same becomes...
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JFT June 13 A full life
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"The program works a miracle in our lives...We become free to live."Basic Text, p. 11=Most of us--if we've been in recovery for any length of time at all--have heard some member complaining in a meeting about being terribly overworked, too busy for meetings or sponsorship or other activities. In f...
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JFT June 12 A vision of hope
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"Yes, we are a vision of hope..."Basic Text, p. 53=By the time we reached the end of our road, many of us had lost all hope for a life without the use of drugs. We believed we were destined to die from our disease. What an inspiration it was, then, coming to our first meeting and seeing a room full of addic...
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JFT June 11 Living clean
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"As we recover, we gain a new outlook on being clean...Life can become a new adventure for us."Basic Text, p. 91=The using life is not a clean one--no one knows this better than we do. Some of us lived in physical squalor, caring neither for our surroundings nor ourselves. Worse, though, than any ext...
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Cunning baffling and insidious
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I hear the phrase used, but where do I find, "cunning, baffling and insidious" in NA literature?
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JFT June 10 Changing motives
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"When we finally get our own selfish motives out of the way, we begin to find a peace that we never imagined possible."Basic Text, p. 45=As we examine our beliefs, our actions, and our motives in recovery, we'll find that sometimes we do things for the wrong reasons. In our early recovery, we may have...
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JFT June 9 Old dreams needn't die
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"Lost dreams awaken and new possibilities arise."Basic Text, p. 91=Most of us had dreams when we were young. Whether we dreamed of a dynamic career, a large and loving family, or travels abroad, our dreams died when our addiction took hold. Anything we ever wanted for ourselves was cast away in our...
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Introducing myself
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Hello! Im Faith and im an addict. I am so greatful to have found this site. I was just released from the state prison on February 18. I did 14 months between county and state. I have 2 beautiful children. My girlfriend is still down having 13 months left to do. Both just celebrated our one year sober togeth...
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JFT June 8 The only requirement
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"This program offers hope. All you have to bring with you is the desire to stop using and the willingness to try this new way of life."IP No. 16, For the Newcomer=From time to time we wonder if were doing it right in Narcotics Anonymous. Are we attending enough meetings? Are we using our sponsor, or w...
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JFT June 7 Someone who believes in me
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"Just for today, I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery."Basic Text, p. 100=Not all of us arrive in NA and automatically stay clean. But if we keep coming back, we find in Narcotics Anonymous the support we need for our recovery. Staying clean is easier w...
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JFT June 6 Recovery doesn't happen overnight
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"The Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous are a progressive recovery process established in our daily living."Basic Text, p. 99=After some time in recovery, we may find we are faced with what seem like overwhelming personal problems, angry feelings, and despair. When we realize what's going on,...
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JFT June 5 Honest prayer
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"Although honesty is difficult to practice, it is most rewarding."Basic Text, p. 96=How difficult we find it to be honest! Many of us come to NA so confused about what really happened in our lives that it sometimes takes months and years to sort it all out. The truth of our history is not always as we ha...
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JFT June 4 Build, don't destroy
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"Our negative sense of self has been replaced by a positive concern for others."Basic Text, p. 16=Spreading gossip feeds a dark hunger in us. Sometimes we think the only way we can feel good about ourselves is to make someone else look bad by comparison. But the kind of self-esteem that can be purcha...
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Prayers needed
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I hope everyone is doing well and remaining blessed. Yesterday i was doing some searching on the internet for something that has been kinda eating at me for awhile now and so i went looking for information on an ex girlfriend I had years ago, i was looking for information on her son 5 years old at the time ...
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June 3 Direct and indirect amends
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"We make our amends to the best of our ability."Basic Text, p. 40=The Ninth Step tells us to make direct amends wherever possible. Our experience tells us to follow up those direct amends with long-lasting changes in our attitudes and our behavior--that is, with indirect amends.For example, sa...
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Financial Amends
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I remember when i first came into the rooms and learned about the steps. I used to think that I would never make financial amends. Period. no way. NEVER!!!!!!well we work the steps in order for a reason. Each step, if worked sincerely brings a degree of spirituality that readies us for the next step....
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JFT June 2 Sick and tired
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"We wanted an easy way out....When we did seek help, we were only looking for the absence of pain."Basic Text, p. 5=Something's not working. In fact, something's been wrong for a long time, causing us pain and complicating our lives. The problem is that, at any given moment, it always appears easi...
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JFT June 1 Keep coming back
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We don't have to be clean when we get here but, after the first meeting, we suggest that newcomers keep coming back and come back clean. We don't have to wait for an overdose or a jail sentence to get help from Narcotics Anonymous.Basic Text, pp. 10-11=Very few of us arrive in NA brimming with willing...
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JFT May 31 Keep it simple
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"We live a day at a time but also from moment to moment. When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably."Basic Text, p. 99=Life often seems too complicated to understand, especially for those of us who've dodged it for so long. When we stopped using drugs, many o...
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