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Dave R · Dave R

"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 nex...

Dave R · Dave R

"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 kno...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

pitfall2011 · pitfall2011

Hi everyone, I am a 41 year old woman who realizes she suffers from addiction. My mothers side suffers from drug/alcohol addiction. My dad's side has anxiety/depression/Bipolar disorder. My sister is a recovering heroin user. I am so proud she is well now. I was so ashamed to admit this to anyo...

Dave R · Dave R

"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, Revised=We've asked someone to sponsor us, and the reasons we have for asking that particula...

Dave R · Dave R

"Many times in our recovery, the old bugaboos will haunt us. Life may again become meaningless, monotonous, and boring."Basic Text, p. 78=Sometimes 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 s...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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 t...

Dave R · Dave R

"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 pret...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Jakamo · Jakamo

Hi there. I'm a regular poster in the AA forums because alcohol is my DOC, but I've been mainly going to NA meetings because there isn't the constant talk of alcohol that there is in AA meetings that I find can sometimes trigger relapse, especially in newcomers. Every NA meeting I've ever been to (and in...

truereligion · truereligion

hello my name is kaleb nothstine im 13 started at 7 and im a ex user of drugs/alcohal and my real mom is a current user of meth i was taken away from my mom and sent to a foster family and they helped me stay away from my addiction i mean i did every single drug in the book exept herion i drunk every type of alcoh...

Dave R · Dave R

"As a result of the Twelve Steps, Im 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 decid...

Dave R · Dave R

"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=We've sometimes heard it said in our meetings that "rude awakenings lead to spirit...

Dave R · Dave R

"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. 127=In active addiction, things happened seemingly without rhyme or reason. We just did things, often without knowing why or...

Dave R · Dave R

"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 ou...

Dave R · Dave R

"Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar."Basic Text, p. 14=Before 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 accu...

Dave R · Dave R

"[The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it."Basic Text, p. 27=Ever had a panic attack? Everywhere we turn, lifes demands overwhelm us. Were paralyzed, and we don't know what to do about it. How do we break an anxiety attack?Fi...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our disease has been arrested, and now anything is possible. We become increasingly open-minded and open to new ideas in all areas of our lives."Basic Text, p. 106=For many of us, our first few months or years in NA are a wonderful time. Were willing to try anything, and our eyes are cons...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future."Basic Text, p. 96=When we begin coming to meetings, we hear other addicts talking about the gifts they have received as a result of this program, things we never thought of as gifts before. One such gift is the re...

Dave R · Dave R

"We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that weve been doing better than we've been feeling."Basic Text, p. 43=Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: "When you wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for refl...

Dave R · Dave R

"The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse."Basic Text, p. 39=Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to consider. Our remorse wa...

Dave R · Dave R

"It would be tragic to write [out an inventory only to] shove it in a drawer. These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure."Basic Text, p. 32=How many times have we heard it said that we are only as sick as our secrets? While many members choose not to use meetings to share th...

poi · poi

Almost 5 years ago, I showed up to the rooms of NA pretty broken from only the use of what many would call minor DOCs - not hard drugs. Would anyone even believe me if I said that primarily the use of ephedrine pills and marijuana alone caused me to lose my family (divorce), my money (bankruptcy), and my sa...

Dave R · Dave R

"Personality change was what we really needed. Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary."Basic Text, p. 15=In early life, most of us were capable of joy and wonder, of giving and receiving unconditional love. When we started using, we introduced an influenc...

Dave R · Dave R

"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."Tradition Twelve=The Twelfth Tradition reminds us of the importance of putting principles before personalities. In recovery meetings, this might be parap...

Dave R · Dave R

"We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."Step Ten=In Narcotics Anonymous, we've found that the more we live in harmony with our Higher Power's will for us, the greater the harmony in our lives. We use the Tenth Step to help us maintain that ha...

Dave R · Dave R

"Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems."Basic Text, p. 13=When we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, we give away all of our personal power. We need to remember that we are powerless over our addiction, not our...

Dave R · Dave R

"Relapse is never an accident. Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program." Basic Text, p. 79=A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and-such happens, we will surely relapse. What event do we e...

Dave R · Dave R

"As long as I take it easy and make a commitment with my Higher Power to do the best I can, I know I will be taken care of today."=Many of us feel that our fundamental commitment in recovery is to our Higher Power. Knowing that we lack the power to stay clean and find recovery on our own, we enter i...

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	JFT March 16 Inventory (Preview) "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 nex...	Dave R	0	306	Mar 16, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 15 Feeling a "part of" (Preview) "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 kno...	Dave R	0	298	Mar 15, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 14 Relationships (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	244	Mar 14, 2016 by Dave R
	Lost soul since 2011 (Preview) Hi everyone, I am a 41 year old woman who realizes she suffers from addiction. My mothers side suffers from drug/alcohol addiction. My dad's side has anxiety/depression/Bipolar disorder. My sister is a recovering heroin user. I am so proud she is well now. I was so ashamed to admit this to anyo...	pitfall2011	0	366	Mar 13, 2016 by pitfall2011
	JFT March 13 That one special person (Preview) "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,* Revised**=We've asked someone to sponsor us, and the reasons we have for asking that particula...	Dave R	0	232	Mar 13, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 12 Getting out of the rut (Preview) "Many times in our recovery, the old bugaboos will haunt us. Life may again become meaningless, monotonous, and boring."Basic Text, p. 78=Sometimes 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 s...	Dave R	1	336	Mar 12, 2016 by Mike M
	JFT March 11 Lightening the load (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	301	Mar 11, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 10 Our own recovery (Preview) "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 t...	Dave R	0	309	Mar 10, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 9 Small things (Preview) "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 pret...	Dave R	0	321	Mar 9, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 8 Learning to love ourselves (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	332	Mar 8, 2016 by Dave R
	Complete abstinence from all drugs?!? (Preview) Hi there. I'm a regular poster in the AA forums because alcohol is my DOC, but I've been mainly going to NA meetings because there isn't the constant talk of alcohol that there is in AA meetings that I find can sometimes trigger relapse, especially in newcomers. Every NA meeting I've ever been to (and in...	Jakamo	2	475	Mar 6, 2016 by Davethewave
	myself (Preview) hello my name is kaleb nothstine im 13 started at 7 and im a ex user of drugs/alcohal and my real mom is a current user of meth i was taken away from my mom and sent to a foster family and they helped me stay away from my addiction i mean i did every single drug in the book exept herion i drunk every type of alcoh...	truereligion	4	492	Mar 6, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 6 Rationalizing away our recovery (Preview) "As a result of the Twelve Steps, Im 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 decid...	Dave R	0	303	Mar 6, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 5 From rude awakening to spiritual awakening (Preview) "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=We've sometimes heard it said in our meetings that "rude awakenings lead to spirit...	Dave R	0	342	Mar 5, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 4 The Process (Preview) "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. 127=In active addiction, things happened seemingly without rhyme or reason. We just did things, often without knowing why or...	Dave R	0	309	Mar 4, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 3 Relapse (Preview) "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 ou...	Dave R	0	462	Mar 3, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 2 Success (Preview) "Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar."Basic Text, p. 14=Before 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 accu...	Dave R	0	288	Mar 2, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT March 1 Anxiety attack! (Preview) "[The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it."Basic Text, p. 27=Ever had a panic attack? Everywhere we turn, lifes demands overwhelm us. Were paralyzed, and we don't know what to do about it. How do we break an anxiety attack?Fi...	Dave R	0	363	Mar 1, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 29 Anything! (Preview) "Our disease has been arrested, and now anything is possible. We become increasingly open-minded and open to new ideas in all areas of our lives."Basic Text, p. 106=For many of us, our first few months or years in NA are a wonderful time. Were willing to try anything, and our eyes are cons...	Dave R	1	293	Feb 29, 2016 by Davethewave
	JFT February 28 The greatest gift (Preview) "Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future."Basic Text, p. 96=When we begin coming to meetings, we hear other addicts talking about the gifts they have received as a result of this program, things we never thought of as gifts before. One such gift is the re...	Dave R	1	280	Feb 28, 2016 by Davethewave
	JFT February 27 "Pure" motives (Preview) "We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that weve been doing better than we've been feeling."Basic Text, p. 43=Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: "When you wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for refl...	Dave R	0	262	Feb 27, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 26 Remorse (Preview) "The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse."Basic Text, p. 39=Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to consider. Our remorse wa...	Dave R	0	264	Feb 26, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 25 Sick as our secrets (Preview) "It would be tragic to write [out an inventory only to] shove it in a drawer. These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure."Basic Text, p. 32=How many times have we heard it said that we are only as sick as our secrets? While many members choose not to use meetings to share th...	Dave R	0	399	Feb 25, 2016 by Dave R
	the journey continues (Preview) Almost 5 years ago, I showed up to the rooms of NA pretty broken from only the use of what many would call minor DOCs - not hard drugs. Would anyone even believe me if I said that primarily the use of ephedrine pills and marijuana alone caused me to lose my family (divorce), my money (bankruptcy), and my sa...	poi	3	474	Feb 24, 2016 by MIKEF
	JFT February 24 A new influence (Preview) "Personality change was what we really needed. Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary."Basic Text, p. 15=In early life, most of us were capable of joy and wonder, of giving and receiving unconditional love. When we started using, we introduced an influenc...	Dave R	0	275	Feb 24, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 23 Messages and messengers (Preview) "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."Tradition Twelve=The Twelfth Tradition reminds us of the importance of putting principles before personalities. In recovery meetings, this might be parap...	Dave R	0	276	Feb 23, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 22 God's will or mine? (Preview) "We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."Step Ten=In Narcotics Anonymous, we've found that the more we live in harmony with our Higher Power's will for us, the greater the harmony in our lives. We use the Tenth Step to help us maintain that ha...	Dave R	0	365	Feb 22, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 20 Powerlessness and personal responsibility (Preview) "Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems."Basic Text, p. 13=When we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, we give away all of our personal power. We need to remember that we are powerless over our addiction, not our...	Dave R	0	270	Feb 20, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 19 Reservations (Preview) "Relapse is never an accident. Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program." Basic Text, p. 79=A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and-such happens, we will surely relapse. What event do we e...	Dave R	1	319	Feb 19, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 18 The recovery partnership (Preview) "As long as I take it easy and make a commitment with my Higher Power to do the best I can, I know I will be taken care of today."=Many of us feel that our fundamental commitment in recovery is to our Higher Power. Knowing that we lack the power to stay clean and find recovery on our own, we enter i...	Dave R	0	314	Feb 18, 2016 by Dave R
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