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JFT November 3 No matter what
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"We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start?" Basic Text, p. 85 = Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now that we're in recovery it's all wonderful. We feel that...
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JFT November 2 Living with unresolved problems
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"It makes a difference to have friends who care if we hurt." Basic Text, p. 54 = For most of our problems, the solution is simple. We call our sponsor, pray, work the steps, or go to a meeting. But what about those situations where the burden is ongoing and there's no end in sight? Most of us...
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JFT November 1 Awakening
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"God helps us as we help each other." Basic Text, p. 51 = Our addiction caused us to think almost exclusively of ourselves. Even our prayers--if we prayed at all--we were self-centered. We asked God to fix things for us or get us out of trouble. Why? Because we didn't want to live with t...
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JFT October 31 Our relationship with our higher power
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"Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves." Basic Text, p. 99 = Working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous gives us a fresh start in life and some guidance for living in the world....
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JFT October 30 Courage
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"Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future." Basic Text, p. 96 = Narcotics Anonymous is no place for the faint of heart! Facing life on life's terms without the use of drugs isn't always easy. Recovery requires more than hard work; it requires a liber...
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Need some advice- as a wife of an addict
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I am in need of some guidance and advice :-/ My husband is a recovering Alcoholic, he hasn't had a drink Since July 8th. I am beyond proud of him. About a month and a half ago he had some gall bladder issues and was prescribed hydrocodone 10mg- problem is that the drs kept prescribing them to him. He got to t...
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JFT October 29 Living in the now
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"Living just for just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. Basic Text, pp. 94 = Thoughts of how bad it was--or could be--can consume our hopes for recovery. Fantasies of how wonderful it was--or could be--can divert us from taking action in the real world. Th...
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JFT October 28 Attitudes
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"We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes." Basic Text, p. 55 = Ever have a day when everything seems to be working against you? Do you go through periods when you are so busy taking people's inventories you can barely stand yourself? What about when you find yourself snappi...
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JFT October 27 Living in the present
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"We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today." Basic Text, p. 29 = For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives aren't the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortab...
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JFT October 26 The path to self-acceptance
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"The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery." IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance = Our addiction has been a source of shame to many of us. We have hidden ourselves from others, sure that if anyone got to know who we really were they...
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JFT October 25 Principles before personalities
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"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities." Tradition Twelve = Principles before personalities. Many of us chant these words along with the reader whenever the Twelve Traditions are read. The fac...
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JFT October 24 Responsibility
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"We are not responsible for our disease, only for our recovery. As we begin to apply what we have learned, our lives begin to change for the better." Basic Text, p. 91 = The further we go in recovery, the less we avoid responsibility for ourselves and our actions. By applying the princ...
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JFT October 23 Surrender
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"By surrendering control, we gain a far greater power." Basic Text, p. 44 = When we were using, we did everything we could to run things our way. We used every scheme imaginable to bring our world under control. When we got what we wanted, we felt powerful, invincible; when we didn't...
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JFT OCtober 22 Look who's talking
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"Our disease is so cunning that it can get us into impossible situations." Basic Text, p. 83 = Some of us say, "My disease is talking to me." Others say, "My head wont turn off." Still others refer to the committee in my mind" or "the monkey on my back.&qu...
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JFT October 21 God's will today
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"This decision demands continued acceptance, ever-increasing faith, and a daily commitment to recovery." IP No. 14, One Addict's Experience = Sometimes, we really live the Third Step--and it's great! We don't regret the past, we aren't afraid of the future, and we're generally...
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JFT October 20 Freedom to choose
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"Enforced morality lacks the power that comes to us when we choose to live a spiritual life." Basic Text, p. 45 = In our active addiction, many of us lived our lives by default. We were unwilling or unable to make choices about how we wanted to act, what we preferred to do, or even where we w...
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On line again
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Hey guys, It looks like I won't be able to do my face to face meetings so I will be coming in here for support again. I am grateful you guys are still here! I just picked up 7 years and I want to thank you guys again for the support in the past and for being here today. 
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JFT October 19 Standing for something
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"...we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us." Basic Text, p. 88 = In our active addiction, we were prepared to compromise everything we believed in just to get our hands on more drugs. Whether we stole from our families and friends, sol...
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JFT October 18 We all belong
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"Although 'politics makes strange bedfellows,' as the old saying goes, addiction makes us one of a kind." Basic Text, p. 87 = What a mixture of folks we have in Narcotics Anonymous! In any given meeting on any given night, we'll find a variety of people who probably never would have sat...
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JFT October 17 "The Truth"
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"Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth." Basic Text, p. 94 = Many of us thought we could recognize "The Truth." We believed the truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily and without question. The...
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JFT October 16 The simplest prayer
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"...praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out." Step Eleven = How do we pray? With little experience, many of us don't even know how to begin. The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated. We came to Narcotics Anonymous because of ou...
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Is it more helpful/effective to have a sponsor who had your same drug of choice?
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Hey Guys, I'm new to the message board. Just went my first meeting today after about 5 months of relapse. So starting over again. Just for today! A very kind woman at the meeting I went to reached out to me today and gave me hope again. However, she had a very different drug of choice than mine and was a...
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JFT October 15 Choices
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"We did not choose to become addicts." Basic Text, p. 3 = When we were growing up, all of us had dreams. Every child has heard a relative or neighbor ask, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Even if some of us didn't have elaborate dreams of success, most of us dreamed of...
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JFT October 14 The end of loneliness
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"With the love that I am shown in Narcotics Anonymous, I have no excuse for loneliness." = Addiction is a lonely disease. We may be surrounded by people but, sooner or later, our addiction drives a wedge between us and even our closest loved ones. Many of us are driven to Narcotics Ano...
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41 days clean - longest in 3 years and need more support.
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Hello everyone, My name is Rob and I am an addict. I have been using drugs and alcohol since I was 16 years old and except for 19 months in 2007-2008 and a few days here and there I have struggled for two plus decades. I have had heart attacks, a stroke, and homelessness but 42 days ago I decided I was not gett...
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JFT October 13 Making a difference
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"Words cannot describe the sense of spiritual awareness that we receive when we have given something, no matter how small, to another person." Basic Text, p. 104 = Sometimes it seems as though there is so much wrong with the world that we might as well forget trying to make a difference. ...
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JFT October 12 Being right
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"When we admit that our lives have become unmanageable, we don't have to argue our point of view...We no longer have to be right all the time." Basic Text, p. 58 = Nothing isolates us more quickly from the warmth and camaraderie of our fellow NA members than having to be right. Insecure,...
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JFT September 29 Just for today
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"When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably." Basic Text, p. 99 = "Just for today"--it's a comforting thought. If we try to live in the past, we may find ourselves torn by painful, disquieting memories. The lessons of our using are...
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A New comer again
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My name is Mandi, I have been using opiates for many years and to the point of being more than sick and tired! of a small pill dominating my life. I...
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JFT October 10 Consequences
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"Before we got clean, most of our actions were guided by impulse. Today, we are not locked into this type of thinking." Basic Text, p. 90 = Ever been tempted to do something even when you knew the results would be disastrous? Ever thought about how much it was going to hurt to do what you...
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