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Dave R · Dave R

"...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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Raman · Raman

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...

Mike M · Mike M

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!

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

lungile luthuli · lungile luthuli

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...

Writter813 · Writter813

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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"Everything that occurs in the course of NA service must be motivated by the desire to more successfully carry the message of recovery to the addict who still suffers."Basic Text pg. xvi Our motives are often a surprise to us. In our early days of recovery, they were almost always a surpri...

Dave R · Dave R

"Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases."Basic Text, p. 84=Recognizing complacency in our recovery is like seeing smoke in a room. The smoke thickens when our meeting attendance drops, contact...

Dave R · Dave R

"There is a spiritual principle of giving away what we have been given in Narcotics Anonymous in order to keep it. By helping others to stay clean, we enjoy the benefit of the spiritual wealth that we have found."Basic Text, p. 49=Time and again in our recovery, others have freely shared w...

i am a new member · ahmad kurfi

i need a sponsor. i need help right now!

Dave R · Dave R

"There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using."Basic Text, p. 9=We all know people who could benefit from Narcotics Anonymous. Many people we encounter from all walks of life--our family members, old friends, and coworkers--could really use a program of rec...

Dave R · Dave R

"No one is forcing us to give up our misery."Basic Text, p. 29=It's funny to remember how reluctant we once were to surrender to recovery. We seemed to think we had wonderful, fulfilling lives as using addicts and that giving up our drugs would be worse than serving a life sentence at hard l...

Dave R · Dave R

"When we see how our defects exist in our lives and accept them, we can let go of them and get on with our new life."Basic Text, p. 35=Sometimes our readiness to have our character defects removed depends on what we call them. If misnaming our defects makes them seem less defective, we may be...

Dave R · Dave R

"We use the tools available to us and develop the ability to survive our emotions."Basic Text, p. 31="Survive my emotions?" some of us say. "You've got to be kidding!" When we were using, we never gave ourselves the chance to learn how to survive them. You d...

Dave R · Dave R

"Relationships can be a terribly painful area."Basic Text, p. 82=Love is like an elixir for some of us. The excitement of a new lover, the intrigue of exploring intimacy, the sense of release we get from allowing ourselves to become vulnerable--these are all powerful emotions. But we...

Dave R · Dave R

"We have seen the program work for any addict who honestly and sincerely wants to stop [using drugs]."Basic Text, p. 10=How do we know when someone honestly and sincerely wants to stop using drugs? The truth is that we don't know! Because we cannot read minds or know another's motives an...

Dave R · Dave R

"We know that if we pray for God's will we will receive what is best for us, regardless of what we think."Basic Text, p. 46=By the time we came to NA, our inner voices had become unreliable and self-destructive. Addiction had warped our desires, our interests, our sense of what was best for...

MIKEF · MIKEF

Good Morning and blessings of this day! Thank you for sharing a day of reflection with me on my anniversary yesterday.It was a wonderful day starting with a 100pm meeting in my Homegroup sharing and caring with others just like me,always an uplifting experience even if in pain or joy.Spent hours work...

MIKEF · MIKEF

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...

Dean · Dean

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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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. ...

Dave R · Dave R

"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 December 30 Action and prayer (Preview) "...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...	Dave R	0	436	Dec 30, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 28 Depression (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	373	Dec 28, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 27 God could restore us to sanity (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	445	Dec 27, 2015 by Dave R
	Cleantime anniversary ! (Preview) 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...	Raman	5	549	Dec 26, 2015 by BigV
	Happy, Joyous & Free Holiday Season (Preview) 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!	Mike M	2	393	Dec 26, 2015 by BigV
	JFT December 26 Never-failing power (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	389	Dec 26, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 25 Anonymity and self-will (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	447	Dec 25, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 24 The group (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	366	Dec 24, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 23 New ideas (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	456	Dec 23, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 22 A new way to live (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	425	Dec 22, 2015 by Dave R
	Desperate for a sponsor (Preview) 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...	lungile luthuli	4	647	Dec 21, 2015 by Davethewave
	New member/opinion wanted/am I an addict?ery erapist, what (Preview) 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...	Writter813	5	1210	Dec 21, 2015 by mikah
	JFT December 21 Acceptance and change (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	510	Dec 21, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 20 Overcoming self-obsession (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	461	Dec 20, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 17 Service motives (Preview) "Everything that occurs in the course of NA service must be motivated by the desire to more successfully carry the message of recovery to the addict who still suffers."Basic Text pg. xvi Our motives are often a surprise to us. In our early days of recovery, they were almost always a surpri...	Dave R	0	398	Dec 17, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 16 Where there's smoke (Preview) "Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases."Basic Text, p. 84=Recognizing complacency in our recovery is like seeing smoke in a room. The smoke thickens when our meeting attendance drops, contact...	Dave R	0	517	Dec 16, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 15 The joy of sharing (Preview) "There is a spiritual principle of giving away what we have been given in Narcotics Anonymous in order to keep it. By helping others to stay clean, we enjoy the benefit of the spiritual wealth that we have found."Basic Text, p. 49=Time and again in our recovery, others have freely shared w...	Dave R	1	562	Dec 15, 2015 by Jacob R
	i am a new member (Preview) i need a sponsor. i need help right now!	ahmad kurfi	2	576	Dec 14, 2015 by Davethewave
	JFT December 13 Membership (Preview) "There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using."Basic Text, p. 9=We all know people who could benefit from Narcotics Anonymous. Many people we encounter from all walks of life--our family members, old friends, and coworkers--could really use a program of rec...	Dave R	0	407	Dec 13, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 11 Misery is optional (Preview) "No one is forcing us to give up our misery."Basic Text, p. 29=It's funny to remember how reluctant we once were to surrender to recovery. We seemed to think we had wonderful, fulfilling lives as using addicts and that giving up our drugs would be worse than serving a life sentence at hard l...	Dave R	0	433	Dec 11, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 8 Calling a defect a defect (Preview) "When we see how our defects exist in our lives and accept them, we can let go of them and get on with our new life."Basic Text, p. 35=Sometimes our readiness to have our character defects removed depends on what we call them. If misnaming our defects makes them seem less defective, we may be...	Dave R	0	445	Dec 8, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 7 Surviving our emotions (Preview) "We use the tools available to us and develop the ability to survive our emotions."Basic Text, p. 31="Survive my emotions?" some of us say. "You've got to be kidding!" When we were using, we never gave ourselves the chance to learn how to survive them. You d...	Dave R	0	427	Dec 7, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 6 Romance and Recovery (Preview) "Relationships can be a terribly painful area."Basic Text, p. 82=Love is like an elixir for some of us. The excitement of a new lover, the intrigue of exploring intimacy, the sense of release we get from allowing ourselves to become vulnerable--these are all powerful emotions. But we...	Dave R	1	473	Dec 6, 2015 by Davethewave
	JFT December 5 Those who want to recover (Preview) "We have seen the program work for any addict who honestly and sincerely wants to stop [using drugs]."Basic Text, p. 10=How do we know when someone honestly and sincerely wants to stop using drugs? The truth is that we don't know! Because we cannot read minds or know another's motives an...	Dave R	0	458	Dec 5, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 4 God's will not ours (Preview) "We know that if we pray for God's will we will receive what is best for us, regardless of what we think."Basic Text, p. 46=By the time we came to NA, our inner voices had become unreliable and self-destructive. Addiction had warped our desires, our interests, our sense of what was best for...	Dave R	0	523	Dec 4, 2015 by Dave R
	In gratitude and thanks for years of support and prayer (Preview) Good Morning and blessings of this day! Thank you for sharing a day of reflection with me on my anniversary yesterday.It was a wonderful day starting with a 100pm meeting in my Homegroup sharing and caring with others just like me,always an uplifting experience even if in pain or joy.Spent hours work...	MIKEF	1	2854	Dec 3, 2015 by Davethewave
	In thought and reflection sharing 31 years of uninterrupted recovery (Preview) 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...	MIKEF	4	802	Dec 3, 2015 by Mike M
	Medical Update (Preview) 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...	Dean	6	714	Dec 2, 2015 by BigV
	JFT December 2 Recovery: our first priority (Preview) "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. ...	Dave R	0	441	Dec 2, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT December 1 Life's rewards (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	567	Dec 1, 2015 by Dave R
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