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JFT January 29 The first step--an action step
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"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...
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JFT January 28 An every-day addict
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"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...
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Calling all clean and Sober Surfers....... Sober Mentawais Surf trip
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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...
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JFT January 24 From isolation to connection
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"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...
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Feeling like a UNICORN
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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...
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JFT January 22 The school of recovery
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"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...
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JFT January 21 Unity and uniformity
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"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...
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JFT January 20 One promise, many gifts
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"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...
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asking
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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...
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JFT January 16 Make that call!
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"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...
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JFT January 15 Fear
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"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...
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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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