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In thought and reflection sharing 31 years of uninterrupted recovery
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On a cold December 2nd morning in 1984,I came to in a farmhouse in Rhinebeck New York, from another drug induced evening and finally rose to my knees asking for mercy and admitting I was an addict and I was progressing in a state of devastation and disaster since early 1959...I was 6 months into my 3rd mar...
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Medical Update
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Hello Brothers and Sisters, Doing much better now. 10 days after second surgery. I had the feeding tube removed last thursday (a week ago), much progress since then. Gained 7 lbs. Went to the Gym yesterday. Life is pretty much back to normal. I was only able to take the pain meds for 3 days after s...
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JFT December 2 Recovery: our first priority
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"We have to keep our recovery first and our priorities in order."Basic Text, p. 82=Before coming to NA, we used many excuses to justify our use of drugs: He yelled at me. She said this. My partner left. I got fired. We used these same excuses for not seeking help for our drug problem. ...
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JFT December 1 Life's rewards
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"We begin to pray only for Gods will for us. That way, we get only what we are capable of handling."Basic Text, p. 49=Imagine what might happen if God gave us everything we wanted. A fabulous new car, straight As, a triple salary raise--all ours without effort, just for the asking.Now i...
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JFT November 30 Sharing the real me
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"Sharing with others keeps us from feeling isolated and alone."Basic Text, p. 81=Intimacy is the sharing of our innermost thoughts and feelings with another human being. Many of us long for the warmth and companionship intimacy brings, but those things dont come without effort. In o...
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JFT November 29 Our Higher Power's care
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"We believe that our Higher Power will take care of us."Basic Text, p. 55=Our program is based on the idea that the application of simple principles can produce profound effects in our lives. One such principle is that, if we ask, our Higher Power will care for us. Because this princi...
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Feverish and frostbitten
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I came here because, why not? I feel alone so much I haven't been doing well, and the clock is ticking, I'm just waiting...and of course the Cycle is always in motion..Right now at this moment, the direction it happens to be going in is the downward one... at this ridiculous hour of 5:30AM, when so many a...
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JFT November 28 Being ourselves
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"To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves."Basic Text, p. 35=Humility is a puzzling concept. We know a lot about humiliation, but humility is a new idea. It sounds suspiciously like groveling, bowing, and scraping. But thats not what humility is at all....
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JFT November 27 Seeking God's help
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"At times during our recovery, the decision to ask for God's help is our greatest source of strength and courage."Basic Text, p. 26=When we take the Third Step, we decide to allow a loving Higher Power to guide us and care for us in our daily lives. We make the decision to allow this guidance...
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Emotional Relapse
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My god. I never realized how powerful emotions are. Just reaching out these boards. I have about 11 months clean. Life has been through hell past year. Just wondering if anyone was awake to sorta vent to. Sponsor is asleep. Didn't want to really talk on the phone. I rather text.
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Thanksgiving
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Today I'm thankful for another day Clean, 26 days Clean this month, 10 months 26 days Clean this year, and by the Grace of God through the Power of NA I'll have 35 years tomorrow the 27th. NA didn't lie, I never have to use again if I don't want to. It's a choice I didn't have before finding NA.
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JFT November 26 Responsibility
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"A lot happens in one day, both negative and positive. If we do not take the time to appreciate both, perhaps we will miss something that will help us grow." IP No.8, Just For Today Responsibility, responsibility--the responsibilities of life are everywhere. We're "supposed t...
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JFT November 25 Meditation
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"Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us." Basic Text, p. 45 = As our recovery progresses, we often reflect on what brought us to Narcotics Anonymous in the first place and are able to appreciate how much the q...
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JFT November 24 Gratefully recovering
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"We entertained the thought that staying clean was not paying off, and the old thinking stirred up self-pity, resentment, and anger." Basic Text, p. 98 = There are days when some of us wallow in self-pity. It's easy to do. We may have expectations about how our lives should be in...
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JFT November 23 God's will
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"The relief of 'letting go and letting God' helps us develop a life that is worth living."Basic Text, p. 26=In our addiction, we were afraid of what might happen if we didn't control everything around us. Many of us made up elaborate lies to protect our use of drugs. Some of us manipulat...
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JFT November 22 Foundation first
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"As we begin to function in society, our creative freedom helps us sort our priorities and do the basic things first."Basic Text, p. 83=No sooner do we get clean than some of us begin putting other priorities ahead of our recovery. Careers, families, relationships--all these are p...
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just got 8 weeks up again - after a relapse, gonna pick my key-ring up at the end of this week....
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Just joined the NA* site....checking in with yall, coming through some very stormy weather', good to be here....chat with Ya soon Mik ( Ireland )
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...'back on th'planet ' again!!......... recovery from surgery
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. ...been 'away' a few months,,,thankfully in a good way. .....being a 'good' addict, and having finished the steps., I decided to dive headlong into step 11 material and did 3 1/2 months of work exchange at a meditation, retreat center in NY state. Quite an experience I'd have to say. Half the time I w...
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JFT November 16 Alone no more
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"We gradually and carefully pull ourselves out of the isolation and loneliness of addiction and into the mainstream of life."Basic Text, p. 37=Many of us spent much of our using time alone, avoiding other people--especially people who were not using--at all costs. After years of isol...
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What to be Grateful for.....
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So I was feeling gloomy over having made a bad move or two in a big fishing contest (of all things), and decided I better work on a gratitude list. Any suggestions??
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JFT November 15 Letting go
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"Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live."Basic Text, p. 26=How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through others. When we a...
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JFT November 14 Not just surviving
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"When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving."Basic Text, p. 52="I'd be better off dead!" A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was more of the same mis...
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JFT November 13 Not perfect
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"We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human."Basic Text, p. 31=All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe we imagined perfect ea...
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JFT November 12 Our own story
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"When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us."Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. "Som...
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JFT November 11 From surrender to acceptance
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"We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us."Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our...
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....when to STEP IN??........
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. ...mannn,, I just heard that my half brother is running out of control. Drinking hard,, apparently suicidal. .....I'm not close with my dad's family,,but amazingly, my past Gfriend ended up moving into the same building ~3 years ago, so there's been some light contact with him through that sit...
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Hong Kong
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I'm going to Hong Kong later this month and wondered if anyone has been to NA meetings there. Are they in English? Are there any you would recommend? Thanks
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JFT November 10 Fear or faith?
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"No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us."Basic Text, p. 14=For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situations gave us a conve...
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JFT November 9 The best laid plans
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"It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 91=There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: "If you want to make God laugh, make plans." When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but theres a nervous edge to our lau...
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JFT November 8 Freed from insanity
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"Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident?"Basic Text, p. 24=We've heard it said that unless we're in love, we can't remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once we're freed of it, we may forge...
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