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BigV · BigV

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 ...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

avid · avid

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....

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"Sharing with others keeps us from feeling isolated and alone."Basic Text, p. 85=There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Being lonely is a state of the heart, an emptiness that makes us feel sad and sometimes hopeless. Loneliness is not always alleviated when we enter into rel...

Dave R · Dave R

"We believe that our Higher Power will take care of us."Basic Text, p. 58=We all have times when it seems as though our lives are falling apart. There are days, or even weeks, when it seems that everything that can go wrong is going wrong. Whether it's the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, or th...

Dave R · Dave R

"We examined our lives and discovered who we really are. To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves."Basic Text, p. 36=As using addicts, the demands of our disease determined our personality. We could be whoever or whatever we needed to be in order to get our "fix." We were surv...

Dave R · Dave R

...the decision to ask for God's help is our greatest source of strength and courage.Basic Text, p. 26A challenge is anything that dares us to succeed. Things new and unfamiliar serve as challenges, whether those things appear good or bad to us. We are challenged by obstacles and opposition from w...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us...We can call it the group, the program, or we can call it God."Basic Text, p. 24=Many of us have a hard time with the idea of a Higher Power until we fully accept the depth of our own powerlessness over addiction. Once we do, most of us are at least willing t...

Dave R · Dave R

"A lot happens in one day, both negative and positive. If we do not take time to appreciate both, perhaps we will miss something that will help us grow."IP No. 8, Just for Today=Most of us seem to unconsciously judge what happens in our lives each day as good or bad, success or failure. We tend to feel h...

Dave R · Dave R

"As we grow, we learn to overcome the tendency to run and hide from ourselves and our feelings."Basic Text, p. 85=Rather than risk vulnerability, many of us have developed habits that keep others at a safe distance. These patterns of emotional isolation can give us the feeling we are hopelessly loc...

Dave R · Dave R

"We want to be free of our guilt, but we don't wish to do so at the expense of anyone else."Basic Text, p. 40=Let's face it: Most of us left trails of destruction in our wakes and harmed anyone who got in our way. Some of the people we hurt most in our addiction were the people we loved most. In an effort to p...

Dave R · Dave R

"The steps lead to an awakening of a spiritual nature. This awakening is evidenced by changes in our lives."Basic Text, p. 49=We know how to recognize the disease of addiction. Its symptoms are indisputable. Besides an uncontrollable appetite for drugs, those suffering exhibit self-centere...

Dave R · Dave R

"Meetings keep us in touch with where we've been, but more importantly, with where we could go in our recovery."Basic Text, p. 56=In many ways, addicts are different. When we came to Narcotics Anonymous we found others like ourselves, people who understood us and whom we could understand. No long...

Dave R · Dave R

"We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing."Basic Text, p. 102=Active addiction kept us isolated for many reasons. In the beginning, we avoided family and friends so they wouldn't find out we were using. Some of us avoided all non-addicts, fearing mora...

Dave R · Dave R

"We review our past performance and our present behavior to see what we want to keep and what we want to discard."Basic Text, p. 29=As each day winds to a close, many of us reflect on the past twenty-four hours and consider how we can live differently in the future. It's easy for our thoughts to remain tr...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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,...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Aldo · Aldo

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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

wishfulthinking · wishfulthinking

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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

scumbagdrew · scumbagdrew

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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	Prayers needed (Preview) 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 ...	BigV	7	664	Jun 3, 2016 by BigV
	June 3 Direct and indirect amends (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	445	Jun 3, 2016 by Dave R
	Financial Amends (Preview) 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....	avid	20	2642	Jun 2, 2016 by Davethewave
	JFT June 2 Sick and tired (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	579	Jun 2, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT June 1 Keep coming back (Preview) 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...	Dave R	0	424	Jun 1, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 31 Keep it simple (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	360	May 31, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 30 Loneliness vs. being alone (Preview) "Sharing with others keeps us from feeling isolated and alone."Basic Text, p. 85=There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Being lonely is a state of the heart, an emptiness that makes us feel sad and sometimes hopeless. Loneliness is not always alleviated when we enter into rel...	Dave R	0	483	May 30, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 29 Carry me (Preview) "We believe that our Higher Power will take care of us."Basic Text, p. 58=We all have times when it seems as though our lives are falling apart. There are days, or even weeks, when it seems that everything that can go wrong is going wrong. Whether it's the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, or th...	Dave R	0	449	May 29, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 28 As we understand (Preview) "We examined our lives and discovered who we really are. To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves."Basic Text, p. 36=As using addicts, the demands of our disease determined our personality. We could be whoever or whatever we needed to be in order to get our "fix." We were surv...	Dave R	0	426	May 28, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 27 Meeting the day's challenge (Preview) ...the decision to ask for God's help is our greatest source of strength and courage.Basic Text, p. 26A challenge is anything that dares us to succeed. Things new and unfamiliar serve as challenges, whether those things appear good or bad to us. We are challenged by obstacles and opposition from w...	Dave R	0	351	May 27, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 26 The power in the group (Preview) "Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us...We can call it the group, the program, or we can call it God."Basic Text, p. 24=Many of us have a hard time with the idea of a Higher Power until we fully accept the depth of our own powerlessness over addiction. Once we do, most of us are at least willing t...	Dave R	0	443	May 26, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 25 "Good" and "bad" feelings (Preview) "A lot happens in one day, both negative and positive. If we do not take time to appreciate both, perhaps we will miss something that will help us grow."IP No. 8, Just for Today=Most of us seem to unconsciously judge what happens in our lives each day as good or bad, success or failure. We tend to feel h...	Dave R	1	680	May 25, 2016 by Davethewave
	JFT May 23 Risking vulnerability (Preview) "As we grow, we learn to overcome the tendency to run and hide from ourselves and our feelings."Basic Text, p. 85=Rather than risk vulnerability, many of us have developed habits that keep others at a safe distance. These patterns of emotional isolation can give us the feeling we are hopelessly loc...	Dave R	0	444	May 24, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 23 Amends and sponsors (Preview) "We want to be free of our guilt, but we don't wish to do so at the expense of anyone else."Basic Text, p. 40=Let's face it: Most of us left trails of destruction in our wakes and harmed anyone who got in our way. Some of the people we hurt most in our addiction were the people we loved most. In an effort to p...	Dave R	1	466	May 23, 2016 by Davethewave
	JFT May 22 Symptoms of a spiritual awakening (Preview) "The steps lead to an awakening of a spiritual nature. This awakening is evidenced by changes in our lives."Basic Text, p. 49=We know how to recognize the disease of addiction. Its symptoms are indisputable. Besides an uncontrollable appetite for drugs, those suffering exhibit self-centere...	Dave R	0	605	May 22, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 21 Keep coming back! (Preview) "Meetings keep us in touch with where we've been, but more importantly, with where we could go in our recovery."Basic Text, p. 56=In many ways, addicts are different. When we came to Narcotics Anonymous we found others like ourselves, people who understood us and whom we could understand. No long...	Dave R	0	493	May 21, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 20 Coming out of isolation (Preview) "We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing."Basic Text, p. 102=Active addiction kept us isolated for many reasons. In the beginning, we avoided family and friends so they wouldn't find out we were using. Some of us avoided all non-addicts, fearing mora...	Dave R	0	430	May 20, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 19 A growth inventory (Preview) "We review our past performance and our present behavior to see what we want to keep and what we want to discard."Basic Text, p. 29=As each day winds to a close, many of us reflect on the past twenty-four hours and consider how we can live differently in the future. It's easy for our thoughts to remain tr...	Dave R	0	417	May 19, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 18 Friends and amends--keeping it simple (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	517	May 18, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 17 Defects (Preview) "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,...	Dave R	0	478	May 17, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 16 Our higher power's will (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	461	May 16, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 12 Living with spiritual experiences (Preview) "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...	Dave R	1	521	May 16, 2016 by foreverclean
	JFT May 15 The ties that bind (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	420	May 15, 2016 by Dave R
	Need help with sponsor! (Preview) 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...	Aldo	4	507	May 14, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 14 Oops! (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	466	May 14, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 13 Onward on the journey (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	489	May 13, 2016 by Dave R
	Help on helping a spouse (Preview) 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...	wishfulthinking	4	668	May 12, 2016 by MIKEF
	JFT May 11 Balancing the scales (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	474	May 11, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT May 10 Becoming entirely ready (Preview) "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...	Dave R	1	616	May 10, 2016 by Davethewave
	Worst NA meeting of my life today (Preview) 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...	scumbagdrew	3	524	May 9, 2016 by mikah
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