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Looking for English speaking addicts to lead a meeting via SKYPE @ 7:30pm Tues (Pacific time)
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My name is Ben from Pasadena, CA. I secretary a meeting on Tuesday nights @ 7:30pm-9:00pm. I'm having a hard time finding leaders (who qualify for 10-15 minutes at the beginning of the meeting) and I had a great idea...why don't I find leaders from around the country via Skype? I can easily put someone o...
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JFT August 13 Difficult people
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By giving unconditional love...we become more loving, and by sharing spiritual growth we become more spiritual." Basic Text, p.103 = Most of us have one or two exceptionally difficult people in our lives. How do we deal with such a person in our recovery? First, we take our own inventory. H...
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JFT August 12 Enough!
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"Something inside cries out, 'Enough, enough, I've had enough,'and then they are ready to take that first and often most difficult step toward dealing with their disease." = Have we really had enough? This is the crucial question we must ask ourselves as we prepare to work the First S...
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JFT August 11 Active listening
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"Through active listening, we hear things that work for us." Basic Text, p. 102 = Most of us arrived in Narcotics Anonymous with a very poor ability to listen. But to take full advantage of "the therapeutic value of one addict helping another," we must learn to listen active...
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JFT August 10 Regular prayer and meditation
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"Most of us pray when we are hurting. We learn that if we pray regularly, we won't be hurting as often or as intensely." Basic Text, p. 44 = Regular prayer and meditation are two more key elements in our new pattern of living. Our active addiction was more than just a bad habit waiting to be b...
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JFT August 8 Responsible recovery
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"...we accept responsibility for our problems and see that we're equally responsible for our solutions." Basic Text, p. 94 = Some of us, well accustomed to leaving our personal responsibilities to others, may attempt the same behavior in recovery. We quickly find out it doesnt work...
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JFT August 7 The gratitude list
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"We focus on anything that isn't going our way and ignore all the beauty in our lives." Basic Text, p. 77 = It's easy to be grateful when everything runs smoothly. If we get a raise at work, were grateful. If we get married, we're grateful. If someone surprises us with a nice present or an...
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JFT August 6 The joy within
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"Since the beginning of our recovery, we have found that joy doesn't come from material things but from within ourselves." Basic Text, p. 107 = Some of us came to Narcotics Anonymous impoverished by our disease. Everything we'd owned had been lost to our addiction. Once we got clean,...
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small steps
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After three weeks detoxing in a psych unit I am now four weeks clean. I am drifting between vulnerable and strong. I'm just finding my way around the site and wanted to say Hi.
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JFT August 5 The shape of our thoughts
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"By shaping our thoughts with spiritual ideals, we are freed to become who we want to be." Basic Text, p. 101 = Addiction shaped our thoughts in its own way. Whatever their shape may once have been, they became misshapen once our disease took full sway over our lives. Our obsession with...
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JFT August 5 When is a secret not a secret?
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"Addicts tend to live secret lives...It is a great relief to get rid of all our secrets and to share the burden of our past." Basic Text, p. 32 = Weve heard it said that "we're as sick as our secrets." What do we keep secret, and why? We keep secret those things that cause us shame....
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JFT August 3 Trusting people
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"Many of us would have had nowhere else to go if we could not have trusted NA groups and members." Basic Text, p. 81 = Trusting people is a risk. Human beings are notoriously forgetful, unreliable, and imperfect. Most of us come from backgrounds where betrayal and insensitivity among...
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JFT August 1 Freedom from guilt
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"Our addiction enslaved us. We were prisoners of our own mind and were condemned by our own guilt." Basic Text, p. 7 = Guilt is one of the most commonly encountered stumbling blocks in recovery. One of the more notorious forms of guilt is the self-loathing that results when we try to for...
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step 5 help
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Just finished step 5 with a sponsee. He murdered 3 people from age 14-23 and never got caught. Im having a difficult time handling it all. Im doing my step 3 prayer with it, but it keeps popping back in my head randomly.
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Congratulations!
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If you're reading this, congratulations of doing something positive for your Recovery! 12,666 One Day at a Times Clean the NA Way but who's counting. (Other than keeping the Spam cleaned up daily haven't been active on here in a spell so just thought I'd post a little something.)Grateful for another...
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JFT July 31 Freedom from active addiction
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"Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise and that is freedom from active addiction, the solution that eluded us for so long." Basic Text, p. 106 = NA offers no promises other than freedom from active addiction. It is true that some of our members meet with financial success in reco...
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JFT July 30 Regular inventory
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"Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, attitudes, and relationships on a regular basis." Basic Text, p. 42 = Taking a regular inventory is a key element in our new pattern of living. In our addiction, we examined oursel...
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JFT July 29 Expectations
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"As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving." Basic Text, p. 39 = Our behavior toward other people in our life is a mirror of our behavior toward ourselves. When we demand perfection of ourselves, we come to demand it from others around us, too. As we strive to repa...
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Please help
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I'm totally new to the situation I'm in. I have a loved one going into rehab tomorrow. I would like any information as to where I can go for information for what I can do to make our home better for her when she gets out. I also need to know what I can do to help her in any way possible. Our whole family wants noth...
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JFT July 28 Secrets and intimacy
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"We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected." Basic Text, p. 32 = Having relationships without barriers, ones in which we can be entirely open with our feelings, is something many of us desire. At the same time, the possibility of such intimacy c...
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JFT July 27 We do recover
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"After coming to NA, we found ourselves among a very special group of people who have suffered like us and found recovery. In their experiences, freely shared, we found hope for ourselves. If the program worked for them, it would work for us." Basic Text, p. 10 = A newcomer walks into hi...
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JFT July 26 Unconditional surrender
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"Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat. This can be frightening, but it is the foundation on which we have built our lives." Basic Text, p. 22 = Most of us have tried everything we can think of, exerted every ounce of force possible, to fill the spiritual ho...
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How to deal with the sick old timer
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How do we help the old timer who suffers from narcissistic disorder, bragging on how he's started all the fellowships in our town and even started fellowships in other places, who brags about his 46 years sober, who yells and screams at people, swears in meetings, literally engulfs new comers swarmi...
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JFT July 25 Twelfth Step "failure"?
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"Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." Step Twelve = There is no such thing as a "failed" Twelfth Step call. Even if our prospect doesn't get clean, we have a...
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JFT July 24 The masks have to go
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"...we covered low self-esteem by hiding behind phony images that we hoped would fool people. The masks have to go." Basic Text, p. 33 = Over-sensitivity, insecurity, and lack of identity are often associated with active addiction. Many of us carry these with us into recovery; our fe...
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JFT July 23 Surrendering self-wil
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July 23 Surrendering self-will "We want and demand that things always go our way. We should know from our past experience that our way of doing things did not work." Basic Text, p. 93 = All of us have ideas, plans, goals for our lives. There's nothing in the NA program that says we shouldn't...
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JFT July 22 Spiritual death
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"For us, to use is to die, often in more ways than one." Basic Text, p. 82 = As newcomers, many of us came to our first meeting with only a small spark of life remaining. That spark, our spirit, wants to survive. Narcotics Anonymous nurtures that spirit. The love of the fellowship quic...
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JFT July 21 Surrender is for everyone
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"If, after a period of time, we find ourselves in trouble with our recovery, we have probably stopped doing one or more of the things that helped us in the earlier stages of our recovery." Basic Text, p. 95 = Surrender is just for newcomers, right? Wrong! After we've been around awhile, s...
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JFT July 20 Step One
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"We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable." Step One = The First Step begins with "we," and there"s a reason for that. There is great strength in making a verbal admission of our powerlessness. And when we go to mee...
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JFT July 18 The gift of desperation
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"Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until, in desperation, we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous." Basic Text, p. 13 = When we think of being desperate, we envision an undesirable state: a poor, bedraggled soul frantically clawing at something so...
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