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JFT April 16 Acting "as if"
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"Today, we seek solutions, not problems. We try what we have learned on an experimental basis."Basic Text, p. 58=The first time we heard that we should "act as if," many of us exclaimed, "But thats not honest! I thought we were always supposed to be honest about our feelings in Narcotics Anonymous....
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JFT April 15 Keep coming back
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"We have come to enjoy living clean and want more of the good things that the NA Fellowship holds for us."Basic Text, p. 27=Can you remember a time when you looked at the addicts recovering in NA and wondered, "If they aren't using drugs, what on earth do they have to laugh about?" Did you believe that th...
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JFT April 14 A new vision
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"Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear?"Basic Text, p. 34=Why do we call them "shortcomings"? Perhaps they should be called "long-goings," because thats often what it takes for them to fade from our lives. Some of us feel that our shortcomings are the very characterist...
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JFT April 13 People-pleasing
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"...approval-seeking behavior carried us further into our addiction...."Basic Text, p. 14=When others approve of what we do or say, we feel good; when they disapprove, we feel bad. Their opinions of us, and how those opinions make us feel, can have positive value. By making us feel good about ste...
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JFT April 12 The big picture
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"All spiritual awakenings have some things in common. Common elements include an end to loneliness and a sense of direction in our lives."Basic Text, p. 50=Some kinds of spiritual experiences take place when we confront something larger than we are. We suspect that forces beyond our understand...
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JFT April 11 A closed mind
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"A new idea cannot be grafted onto a closed mind....Open-mindedness leads us to the very insights that have eluded us during our lives."Basic Text, p. 96=We arrived in NA at the lowest point in our lives. We'd just about run out of ideas. What we needed most when we got here were new ideas, new ways of l...
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JFT April 10 Too busy
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"We must use what we learn or we will lose it, no matter how long we have been clean."Basic Text, p. 85=After putting some clean time together, some of us have a tendency to forget what our most important priority is. Once a week or less we say, "I've gotta get to a meeting tonight. It's been..." We've...
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JFT April 9 Acting out
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"We learn to experience feelings and realize they can do us no harm unless we act on them."IP No. 16, For the Newcomer=Many of us came to Narcotics Anonymous with something less than an overwhelming desire to stop using. Sure, the drugs were causing us problems, and we wanted to be rid of the problems...
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JFT April 8 Happiness
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"We come to know happiness, joy, and freedom."Basic Text, p. 91=If someone stopped you on the street today and asked if you were happy, what would you say? "Well, gee, let's see...I have a place to live, food in the refrigerator, a job, my car is running...Well, yes, I guess I'm happy," you might respo...
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JFT March 7 Priorities
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"The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we may forget that our first priority is to stay clean."Basic Text, p. 43=Things can get really good in our recovery. Perhaps we've found our soul mate, built a rewarding career, started a family. Maybe our relationships with our fami...
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JFT April 7 The value of the past
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"This first-hand experience in all phases of illness and recovery is of unparalleled therapeutic value. We are here to share it freely with any addict who wants to recover."Basic Text, p. 10=Most of us came into the program with some serious regrets. We had never finished high school, or we had miss...
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Suboxone. Help please I need opinions.
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Hello all! So I've been off of heroin for 9 months now. I've been living in my car for 12months. the first three months in my car I was using, and then I got on suboxone. Suboxone has been the only thing that has kept me clean in four years.. So I go to my parents after 9 months of being on subs and ask to come home...
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JFT April 6 Growing honesty
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"On a practical level, changes occur because what's appropriate to one phase of recovery may not be for another."Basic Text, p. 105=When we first came to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us had no legitimate occupation. Not all of us suddenly decide we're going to become honest and productive model ci...
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Medication in recovery
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Heya guys. I am in need of some help. I am trying to get clean again. In 1990 I got clean and stayed that way for over 18 years. Relapse. Now trying to get clean again but I take pain medication as prescribed and am having some major issues. I've been on these opiates for over 4 years and they don't work very we...
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JFT April 5 Identification
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"Someone finally knew the crazy thoughts that I had and the crazy things I'd done." =Addicts often feel terminally unique. We're sure that no one used drugs like we did or had to do the things that we did to get them. Feeling that no one really understands us can keep us from recovery for many years.Bu...
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JFT April 4 Guarding our recovery
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"Remember that we...are ultimately responsible for our recovery and our decisions."Basic Text, p. 103=Most of us will face choices that challenge our recovery. If we find ourselves in extreme physical pain, for example, we will have to decide whether or not we will take medication. We will have...
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JFT April 3 For you alone
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"The idea of a spiritual awakening takes many different forms in the different personalities that we find in the fellowship."Basic Text, p. 49=Though we all work the same steps, each of us experiences the spiritual awakening resulting from them in our own way. The shape that spiritual awakening t...
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JFT April 2 Attraction
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"Our public image consists of what we have to offer: a successful, proven way of maintaining a drug-free lifestyle."Basic Text, p. 75=Yes, we are attracting new members. More and more addicts are finding Narcotics Anonymous. But how do we treat our newest members when they arrive, worn out from...
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JFT April 1 Love and addiction
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"Some of us first saw the effects of addiction on the people closest to us. We were very dependent on them to carry us through life. We felt angry, disappointed, and hurt when they found other interests, friends, and loved ones." Basic Text, p. 7=Addiction affected every area of our lives. Just as w...
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JFT March 31 Insides and outsides
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"Our real value is in being ourselves."Basic Text, p. 105=As we work the steps, we're bound to discover some basic truths about ourselves. The process of uncovering our secrets, exposing them, and searching our characters reveals our true nature. As we become acquainted with ourselves, we'll n...
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JFT March 30 God-centeredness
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"Gradually, as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope."Basic Text, p. 95=What a glorious thing to have hope! Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us lived lives of utter hopelessness. We believed we were destined to die from our disease.Many members...
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JFT March 29
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"...God's will for us consists of the very things we most value. God's will...becomes our own true will for ourselves."Basic Text, p. 48=It's human nature to want something for nothing. We may be ecstatic when a store cashier gives us back change for a twenty though we only paid with a ten. We tend t...
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JFT March 28 Facing feelings
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"We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic."Basic Text, p. 30=While we were using, many of us were unable or unwilling to feel many emotions. If we were happy, we used to make us happier. If we were angry or depressed, we used to mas...
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JFT March 27 Looking for assets
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"In accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other."Basic Text, p. 11=How many times in our recovery have we misunderstood the behavior of another, immediately formed a judgment, applied a label, and neatly tucked the individual into a pig...
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JFT March 25 Trusting a sponsor--worth the risk
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"In seeking a sponsor, most members look for someone they feel they can learn to trust, someone who seems compassionate"IP No. 11, Sponsorship, Revised=The idea of sponsorship may be new to us. We have spent many years without direction, relying only on self-interest, suspecting everyone, tr...
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JFT March 25 I can't but we can
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"From the isolation of our addiction, we find a fellowship of people with a common bond...Our faith, strength, and hope come from people sharing their recovery..."Basic Text, p. 98=Admit no weakness, conceal all shortcomings, deny every failure, go it alone--that was the creed many of us followe...
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JFT March 24 Letting go of the past
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"It is not where we were that counts, but where we are going."Basic Text, p. 23=When we first find recovery, some of us feel shame or despair at calling ourselves addicts. In the early days, we may be filled with both fear and hope as we struggle to find new meaning in our lives. The past may seem inescap...
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Jft March 23 God's gifts
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"We do the footwork and accept what's being given to us freely on a daily basis. Basic Text, p. 47=Our relationship with our Higher Power is a two-way street. In prayer, we speak and God listens. When we meditate, we do our best to listen for the will of our Higher Power. We know that we are responsible...
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JFT March 22 The principle of self-support
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"In our addiction, we were dependent upon people, places, and things. We looked to them to support us and supply the things we found lacking in ourselves."Basic Text, pp. 70-71=In the animal kingdom, there is a creature that thrives on others. It is called a leech. It attaches itself t...
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JFT March 21 A treatable illness
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"Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs."Basic Text, p. 3=At our first meeting, we may have been taken aback at the way members shared about how the disease of addiction had affected their lives. We thought to ourselves, "Disease? Ive just got a drug probl...
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