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Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

John21 · John21

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.

nohalfmeasures · nohalfmeasures

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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"...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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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. 93=Learning to trust is a risky proposition. Our past experience as using addicts has taught us that our companions could not be trusted. Most of all, we couldn't trust o...

Dave R · Dave R

"We must give freely and gratefully that which has been freely and gratefully given to us."Basic Text, p. 49=In recovery, we receive many gifts. Perhaps one of the greatest of these gifts is the spiritual awakening that begins when we stop using, growing stronger each day we apply the st...

Dave R · Dave R

"Do we understand that we have no real control over drugs?"Basic Text, p. 18=At first, many of us may have thought the First Step required no action--we just surrender and go on to Step Two. But Step One does require action!The action we take in the First Step will be evident in the way we...

Dave R · Dave R

"We can never fully recover, no matter how long we stay clean."Basic Text, p. 84=After getting a little time in the program, some of us begin to think we have been cured. We've learned everything NA has to teach us; we've grown bored with the meetings; and our sponsor keeps droning the same...

SoberSurfer32 · SoberSurfer32

Hey guys and gals. My name is Dan. Im a recovering alcoholic and addict with 5 years clean and sober. I am also a partner in a Mentawais surf charter boat and USCG licensed professional mariner working as a Captain of a 300ft supply boat. Ive been guiding trips and traveling the world surfing for the la...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our disease isolated us... Hostile, resentful, self-centered, and self-seeking, we cut ourselves off from the outside world."Basic Text, p. 4=Addiction is an isolating disease, closing us off from society, family, and self. We hid. We lied. We scorned the lives we saw others li...

nuke421 · nuke421

I have been a crack addict for 12 years (45 yrs old) and a couple of years ago I had to have a microdiscectomy/laminectomy which left me with level 8 or 9 pains 24/7. I am currently trying to get into a long term addiction recovery facility but all of them want me off of all my meds. This I believe will not be p...

Dave R · Dave R

"This is a program for learning."Basic Text, p. 16=Learning in recovery is hard work. The things we most need to know are often the hardest to learn. We study recovery to prepare ourselves for the experiences life will give us. As we listen to others share in meetings, we take mental not...

Dave R · Dave R

"Unity is a must in Narcotics Anonymous."Basic Text, p. 63=Unity is not uniformity. Unity springs from the fact that we have unity of purpose--to recover, and to help others stay clean. Even so, we often find that while we strive to fulfill the same purpose, our means and methods may be r...

Dave R · Dave R

"Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise, and that is freedom from active addiction..."Basic Text, p. 106=Imagine how it might be if we had arrived at the doors of Narcotics Anonymous, desperate, wanting to stop using drugs, only to be met by a sales pitch: "If you just work th...

bugingo · bugingo

Hello dear so iam Annanie sibobugingo i live in Rwanda iam newe here i spent so many time for searchimg sponsors to help me on my studies iam student at university in geography so have one parent handcap also is mother so iam so very suffer i ask assistance or helpfull to my studiea my numbr +250788933054...

Dave R · Dave R

"We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected...[But] our fellow members do understand us."Basic Text, p. 32=We need our fellow NA members--their experience, their friendship, their laughter, their guidance, and much, much more. Yet many of us...

Dave R · Dave R

"We grow to feel comfortable with our Higher Power as a source of strength. As we learn to trust this Power, we begin to overcome our fear of life."Basic Text, p. 25=Powerless as we are, living on self-will is a frightening, unmanageable experience. In recovery, we have turned our will a...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us...The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves."Basic Text, p. 24=We've been told that we can believe in any kind of Higher Power we want as long as it is loving and, of course, greater than o...

Dave R · Dave R

"Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat."Basic Text, p. 22=Complete defeat--what a concept! That must mean surrender. Surrender--to give up absolutely. To quit with no reservations. To put up our hands and quit fighting. Maybe to put up our hand a...

Dave R · Dave R

"Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps..."Step Twelve=How will I know when I have had a spiritual awakening? For many of us, a spiritual awakening comes gradually. Perhaps our first spiritual awareness is as simple as a new appreciation for life. Maybe one day we...

Dave R · Dave R

"As we develop faith in our daily lives, we find that our Higher Power supplies us with the strength and guidance that we need."Basic Text, p. 94=Some of us come into recovery very frightened and insecure. We feel weak and alone. We are uncertain of our direction and don't know where to g...

Dave R · Dave R

"I'm very grateful to have come to believe."IP No. 21, The Loner=Belief in a Higher Power can make all the difference when the going gets tough! When things dont go our way in recovery, our sponsor may direct us to make a gratitude list. When we do, we should include our faith in a Power gre...

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	JFT February 16 Faithful feelings (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	318	Feb 16, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 15 An awakening of the spirit (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	339	Feb 15, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 14 Honesty and spirituality (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	336	Feb 14, 2016 by Dave R
	Crazy.. (Preview) 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.	John21	2	383	Feb 12, 2016 by MIKEF
	marijuana and an honest program (Preview) 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...	nohalfmeasures	5	480	Feb 11, 2016 by Mike M
	JFT February 11 A curse into a blessing (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	313	Feb 11, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 7 This is not a test (Preview) "...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...	Dave R	0	285	Feb 7, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 6 I can't but we can (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	259	Feb 6, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 5 Keep coming back (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	327	Feb 5, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 4 Feeling good is not the point (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	348	Feb 4, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 2 Goodwill (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	403	Feb 2, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT February 1 Something different (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	303	Feb 1, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT January 31 Trust (Preview) "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. 93=Learning to trust is a risky proposition. Our past experience as using addicts has taught us that our companions could not be trusted. Most of all, we couldn't trust o...	Dave R	0	321	Jan 31, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT January 30 Giving it away (Preview) "We must give freely and gratefully that which has been freely and gratefully given to us."Basic Text, p. 49=In recovery, we receive many gifts. Perhaps one of the greatest of these gifts is the spiritual awakening that begins when we stop using, growing stronger each day we apply the st...	Dave R	0	375	Jan 30, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT January 29 The first step--an action step (Preview) "Do we understand that we have no real control over drugs?"Basic Text, p. 18=At first, many of us may have thought the First Step required no action--we just surrender and go on to Step Two. But Step One does require action!The action we take in the First Step will be evident in the way we...	Dave R	1	381	Jan 29, 2016 by Davethewave
	JFT January 28 An every-day addict (Preview) "We can never fully recover, no matter how long we stay clean."Basic Text, p. 84=After getting a little time in the program, some of us begin to think we have been cured. We've learned everything NA has to teach us; we've grown bored with the meetings; and our sponsor keeps droning the same...	Dave R	0	300	Jan 28, 2016 by Dave R
	Calling all clean and Sober Surfers....... Sober Mentawais Surf trip (Preview) Hey guys and gals. My name is Dan. Im a recovering alcoholic and addict with 5 years clean and sober. I am also a partner in a Mentawais surf charter boat and USCG licensed professional mariner working as a Captain of a 300ft supply boat. Ive been guiding trips and traveling the world surfing for the la...	SoberSurfer32	1	549	Jan 24, 2016 by Davethewave
	JFT January 24 From isolation to connection (Preview) "Our disease isolated us... Hostile, resentful, self-centered, and self-seeking, we cut ourselves off from the outside world."Basic Text, p. 4=Addiction is an isolating disease, closing us off from society, family, and self. We hid. We lied. We scorned the lives we saw others li...	Dave R	0	362	Jan 24, 2016 by Dave R
	Feeling like a UNICORN (Preview) I have been a crack addict for 12 years (45 yrs old) and a couple of years ago I had to have a microdiscectomy/laminectomy which left me with level 8 or 9 pains 24/7. I am currently trying to get into a long term addiction recovery facility but all of them want me off of all my meds. This I believe will not be p...	nuke421	2	455	Jan 22, 2016 by Davethewave
	JFT January 22 The school of recovery (Preview) "This is a program for learning."Basic Text, p. 16=Learning in recovery is hard work. The things we most need to know are often the hardest to learn. We study recovery to prepare ourselves for the experiences life will give us. As we listen to others share in meetings, we take mental not...	Dave R	0	330	Jan 22, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT January 21 Unity and uniformity (Preview) "Unity is a must in Narcotics Anonymous."Basic Text, p. 63=Unity is not uniformity. Unity springs from the fact that we have unity of purpose--to recover, and to help others stay clean. Even so, we often find that while we strive to fulfill the same purpose, our means and methods may be r...	Dave R	0	389	Jan 21, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT January 20 One promise, many gifts (Preview) "Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise, and that is freedom from active addiction..."Basic Text, p. 106=Imagine how it might be if we had arrived at the doors of Narcotics Anonymous, desperate, wanting to stop using drugs, only to be met by a sales pitch: "If you just work th...	Dave R	0	342	Jan 20, 2016 by Dave R
	asking (Preview) Hello dear so iam Annanie sibobugingo i live in Rwanda iam newe here i spent so many time for searchimg sponsors to help me on my studies iam student at university in geography so have one parent handcap also is mother so iam so very suffer i ask assistance or helpfull to my studiea my numbr +250788933054...	bugingo	2	386	Jan 16, 2016 by Davethewave
	JFT January 16 Make that call! (Preview) "We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected...[But] our fellow members do understand us."Basic Text, p. 32=We need our fellow NA members--their experience, their friendship, their laughter, their guidance, and much, much more. Yet many of us...	Dave R	0	363	Jan 16, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT January 15 Fear (Preview) "We grow to feel comfortable with our Higher Power as a source of strength. As we learn to trust this Power, we begin to overcome our fear of life."Basic Text, p. 25=Powerless as we are, living on self-will is a frightening, unmanageable experience. In recovery, we have turned our will a...	Dave R	1	369	Jan 15, 2016 by Mike M
	JFT January 14 A loving God (Preview) "Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us...The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves."Basic Text, p. 24=We've been told that we can believe in any kind of Higher Power we want as long as it is loving and, of course, greater than o...	Dave R	0	325	Jan 14, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT January 13 Surrender to win (Preview) "Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat."Basic Text, p. 22=Complete defeat--what a concept! That must mean surrender. Surrender--to give up absolutely. To quit with no reservations. To put up our hands and quit fighting. Maybe to put up our hand a...	Dave R	0	374	Jan 13, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT January 12 Spiritual awakenings (Preview) "Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps..."Step Twelve=How will I know when I have had a spiritual awakening? For many of us, a spiritual awakening comes gradually. Perhaps our first spiritual awareness is as simple as a new appreciation for life. Maybe one day we...	Dave R	0	379	Jan 12, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT January 11 Faith (Preview) "As we develop faith in our daily lives, we find that our Higher Power supplies us with the strength and guidance that we need."Basic Text, p. 94=Some of us come into recovery very frightened and insecure. We feel weak and alone. We are uncertain of our direction and don't know where to g...	Dave R	0	355	Jan 11, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT January 10 Gratitude (Preview) "I'm very grateful to have come to believe."IP No. 21, The Loner=Belief in a Higher Power can make all the difference when the going gets tough! When things dont go our way in recovery, our sponsor may direct us to make a gratitude list. When we do, we should include our faith in a Power gre...	Dave R	0	352	Jan 10, 2016 by Dave R
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