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JFT March 6 Rationalizing away our recovery
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"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...
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JFT March 5 From rude awakening to spiritual awakening
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"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...
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JFT March 4 The Process
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"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...
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JFT March 3 Relapse
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"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...
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JFT March 2 Success
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"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...
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JFT March 1 Anxiety attack!
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"[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...
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JFT February 29 Anything!
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"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...
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JFT February 28 The greatest gift
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"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...
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JFT February 27 "Pure" motives
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"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...
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JFT February 26 Remorse
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"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...
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JFT February 25 Sick as our secrets
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"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...
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the journey continues
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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...
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JFT February 24 A new influence
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"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...
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JFT February 23 Messages and messengers
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"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...
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JFT February 22 God's will or mine?
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"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...
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JFT February 20 Powerlessness and personal responsibility
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"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...
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JFT February 19 Reservations
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"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...
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JFT February 18 The recovery partnership
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"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 February 16 Faithful feelings
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"When we refuse to accept the reality of today, we are denying faith in our Higher Power. This can only bring more suffering."IP No. 8, Just for Today=Some days just aren't the way we wish they would be. Our problems may be as simple as a broken shoelace or having to stand in line at the supe...
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JFT February 15 An awakening of the spirit
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"The last thing we expected was an awakening of the spirit."Basic Text, p. 49=Few of us came to our first Narcotics Anonymous meeting aching to take a personal inventory or believing that a spiritual void existed in our souls. We had no inkling that we were about to embark on a journey whi...
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JFT February 14 Honesty and spirituality
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"The right to a God of your understanding is total and without any catches. Because we have this right, it is necessary to be honest about our belief if we are to grow spiritually." Basic Text, pp. 25-26=In meetings, over refreshments, in talks with our sponsor, we hear our NA friends talk...
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Crazy..
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does your family members keep calling you crazy behind your back? told my mom I'm going to school but really na. since I don't know how to say it in our native language. My parents got some type of house phone, just so they can listen to me.
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marijuana and an honest program
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Hello, my name is Rachel and this is my first post on the NA forum, and i have a question about marijuana, only because there is alot of controversy over it in my region. First and foremost, i live in a region where marijuana is medical and alot of people feel as though that is just another form of justifica...
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JFT February 11 A curse into a blessing
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"We have become very grateful in the course of our recovery...We have a disease, but we do recover."Basic Text, p. 8=Active addiction was no picnic; many of us barely came out of it alive. But ranting against the disease, lamenting what it has done to us, pitying ourselves for the conditi...
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JFT February 7 This is not a test
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"...we have found a loving, personal God to whom we can turn."Basic Text, p. 27=Some of us come into recovery with the impression that life's hardships are a series of cosmic tests designed to teach us something. This belief is readily apparent when something traumatic happens and we wa...
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JFT February 6 I can't but we can
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"We had convinced ourselves that we could make it alone and proceeded to live life on that basis. The results were disastrous and, in the end, each of us had to admit that self-sufficiency was a lie."Basic Text, p. 62="I can't, but we can." This simple but profound truth appli...
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JFT February 5 Keep coming back
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"We are grateful that we were made so welcome at meetings that we felt comfortable."Basic Text, p. 83=Remember how scared we were when we walked into our first NA meeting? Even if we walked in with a friend, most of us recall how difficult it was to attend that first meeting. What was it tha...
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JFT February 4 Feeling good is not the point
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"For us, recovery is more than just pleasure."Basic Text, p. 43=In our active addiction, most of us knew exactly how we were going to feel from one day to the next. All we had to do was read the label on the bottle or know what was in the bag. We planned our feelings, and our goal for each day was...
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JFT February 2 Goodwill
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"Goodwill is best exemplified in service; proper service is 'Doing the right thing for the right reason.'"Basic Text, p. xv=The spiritual core of our disease is self-centeredness. In dealing with others, the only motive our addiction taught us was selfishness--we wanted what we wan...
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JFT February 1 Something different
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"We felt different...Only after surrender are we able to overcome the alienation of addiction."Basic Text, p. 22="But you don't understand!" we spluttered, trying to cover up. "I'm different! I've really got it rough!" We used these lines over and over in...
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