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JFT January 14 A loving God
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"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...
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JFT January 13 Surrender to win
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"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...
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JFT January 12 Spiritual awakenings
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"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...
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JFT January 11 Faith
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"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...
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JFT January 10 Gratitude
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"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 January 9 Returning our sponsor's kindness
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"Our earliest involvements with others often begin with our sponsor."Basic Text, p. 57=Our sponsors can be abundant sources of recovery information, wisdom, and loving words. They've done so much for us. From the late night telephone calls to the hours spent listening to our recove...
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New Clean Coin
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Never got around to getting a 34 and decided not to get a 35. Instead had a custom one made. Can't pass it around the circle here so thought I'd post pics.
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JFT January 8 Growing up
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"Our spiritual condition is the basis for a successful recovery that offers unlimited growth."Basic Text, p. 44=When our members celebrate their recovery anniversaries, they often say that they've grown up in NA. Well, then, we think, what does that mean? We start to wonder if we...
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Sharing experience, hope and strength
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Hi there, I am really thankfull for the NA program. I ve been clean for 85 days, and started the program 80 days ago. I attend meetings on a daily basis, so far I ve done 100+ meetings. I have a question about sharing in meetings: I know it s all about hope and strength, and of course Just for today. I have good...
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JFT January 7 Recovery
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"Narcotics Anonymous offers addicts a program of recovery that is more than just a life without drugs. Not only is this way of life better than the hell we lived, it is better than any life that we have ever known."Basic Text, p. 107=Few of us have any interest in recovering what we had befor...
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JFT January 6 "How does it work?"
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"I used to think that I had all the answers, but today I am glad that I dont." =What are the two favorite words of most addicts? "I know!" Unfortunately, many of us arrive in NA thinking we have all the answers. We have a lot of knowledge about what's wrong with us. But in and of...
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JFT January 5 Recovery at home
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"We can enjoy our families in a new way and may become a credit to them instead of an embarrassment or a burden."Basic Text, p. 104=We're doing great in recovery, aren't we? We go to a meeting every day, we spend every evening with our friends in the fellowship, and every weekend we dash off...
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JFT January 4 The love the fellowship
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"Today, secure in the love of the fellowship, we can finally look another human being in the eye and be grateful for who we are."Basic Text, p. 92=When we were using, few of us could tolerate looking someone in the eye--we were ashamed of who we were. Our minds were not occupied with anything...
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JFT January 2 Take a deep breath and talk to God
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"Sometimes when we pray, a remarkable thing happens: We find the means, ways, and energies to perform tasks far beyond our capacities."Basic Text, p. 46=Coping successfully with life's minor annoyances and frustrations is sometimes the most difficult skill we have to learn in recov...
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JFT January 1 Vigiliance
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"We keep what we have only with vigilance..."Basic Text, p. 60=How do we remain vigilant about our recovery? First, by realizing that we have a disease we will always have. No matter how long we've been clean, no matter how much better our lives have become, no matter what the extent of o...
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JFT December 31 Being of service
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"Working with others is only the beginning of service work."Basic Text, p. 59=We're in recovery now. Through living the program, we've attained some stability in our lives. Our faith in a Higher Power has grown. Our individual spiritual awakening is progressing comfortably. So n...
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JFT December 30 Action and prayer
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"...growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer."Basic Text, p. 37=Sometimes it seems as if our recovery is growing much too slowly. We struggle with the steps; we wrestle with the same problems; we labor under the same uncomfortable feelings day after day. We wish that...
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JFT December 28 Depression
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"We are no longer fighting fear, anger, guilt, self-pity, or depression."Basic Text, p. 27=As addicts, many of us experience depression from time to time. When we feel depressed, we may be tempted to isolate ourselves. However, if we do this, our depression may turn to despair. We ca...
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JFT December 27 God could restore us to sanity
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"The process of coming to believe restores us to sanity. The strength to move into action comes from this belief."Basic Text, p. 25=Now that we've finally admitted our insanity and seen examples of it in all its manifestations, we might be tempted to believe that we are doomed to repeat t...
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Cleantime anniversary !
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Hi all.
My name is Raman and I am an addict.
I am a longtime member of MIP.
Must have joined around 2005 and was very active for many years. Abd in fact, one pist ofine called "Inequeality in relationships" got about 20000 hits.
MIP was an awesome recovery partner. We shared our recover...
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Happy, Joyous & Free Holiday Season
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Wishing you all a Happy, Joyous & Free Holiday Season. Whether it's celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Las Posada, Eid-al-Adha or Diwali etc. it doesn't matter. We share a common bond: it all begins with Freedom from active addiction!
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JFT December 26 Never-failing power
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"As we learn to trust this Power, we begin to overcome our fear of life."Basic Text, p. 25=We are people accustomed to placing all our eggs in one basket. Many of us had one particular drug of choice that was our favorite. We relied on it to get us through each day and make life bearable. We w...
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JFT December 25 Anonymity and self-will
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"The drive for personal gain...which brought so much pain in the past falls by the wayside if we adhere to the principle of anonymity."Basic Text, p. 76=The word anonymity itself means namelessness, but there's a larger principle at work in the anonymity of the NA program: the princ...
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JFT December 24 The group
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"The Twelfth Step of our personal program also says that we carry the message to the addict who still suffers...The group is the most powerful vehicle we have for carrying the message."Basic Text, p. 68=When we first come to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, we meet recovering addicts. We...
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JFT December 23 New ideas
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"We reevaluate our old ideas so we can become acquainted with the new ideas that lead to a new way of life."Basic Text, p. 94=Learning to live a new way of life can be difficult. Sometimes, when the going gets especially hard, we're tempted to follow the path of least resistance and live by o...
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JFT December 22 A new way to live
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"When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we all face the same dilemma....Either go on as best we can to the bitter ends--jails, institutions, or death--or find a new way to live."Basic Text, p. 87=What was the worst aspe...
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Desperate for a sponsor
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Hi everyone I am 2 months in n.a.I 've been searching for a sponsor like crazy for a month and it starting to affect my recovery journey a bit. I come from a city where most of my na meetings it extremely young crowd and I m in my 30s I 've tried someone in the rooms we total couldn't relate because of the age and...
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New member/opinion wanted/am I an addict?ery erapist, what
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Hi! for about 10 years, I took daily painkillers under a doctors supervision because I had severe migraines. the headaches were caused by undiagnosed nasal polyps. 1 year ago, I had sinus surgery which removed the polyps. for about 8 weeks, I went off all painkillers excluding high doses of ibuprof...
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JFT December 21 Acceptance and change
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"Freedom to change seems to come after acceptance of ourselves."Basic Text, p. 58=Fear and denial are the opposites of acceptance. None of us are perfect, even in our own eyes; all of us have certain traits that, given the chance, we would like to change. We sometimes become overwhelme...
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JFT December 20 Overcoming self-obsession
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"In living the steps, we begin to let go of our self-obsession."Basic Text, p. 97=Many of us came to the program convinced that our feelings, our wants, and our needs were of the utmost importance to everyone. We had practiced a lifetime of self-seeking, self-centered behavior and beli...
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