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mikah · mikah

. ...been 'away' a few months,,,thankfully in a good way. .....being a 'good' addict, and having finished the steps., I decided to dive headlong into step 11 material and did 3 1/2 months of work exchange at a meditation, retreat center in NY state. Quite an experience I'd have to say. Half the time I w...

Dave R · Dave R

"We gradually and carefully pull ourselves out of the isolation and loneliness of addiction and into the mainstream of life."Basic Text, p. 37=Many of us spent much of our using time alone, avoiding other people--especially people who were not using--at all costs. After years of isol...

Davethewave · Davethewave

So I was feeling gloomy over having made a bad move or two in a big fishing contest (of all things), and decided I better work on a gratitude list. Any suggestions??

Dave R · Dave R

"Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live."Basic Text, p. 26=How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through others. When we a...

Dave R · Dave R

"When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving."Basic Text, p. 52="I'd be better off dead!" A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was more of the same mis...

Dave R · Dave R

"We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human."Basic Text, p. 31=All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe we imagined perfect ea...

Dave R · Dave R

"When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us."Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. "Som...

Dave R · Dave R

"We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us."Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our...

mikah · mikah

. ...mannn,, I just heard that my half brother is running out of control. Drinking hard,, apparently suicidal. .....I'm not close with my dad's family,,but amazingly, my past Gfriend ended up moving into the same building ~3 years ago, so there's been some light contact with him through that sit...

Dave R · Dave R

I'm going to Hong Kong later this month and wondered if anyone has been to NA meetings there. Are they in English? Are there any you would recommend? Thanks

Dave R · Dave R

"No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us."Basic Text, p. 14=For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situations gave us a conve...

Dave R · Dave R

"It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 91=There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: "If you want to make God laugh, make plans." When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but theres a nervous edge to our lau...

Dave R · Dave R

"Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident?"Basic Text, p. 24=We've heard it said that unless we're in love, we can't remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once we're freed of it, we may forge...

EnyaFan33335225 · EnyaFan33335225

when i was around 11 or possibly 12 the episode of dragonball z where bulma and vegeta begin their relationship was broadcast in my country. i immediately sunk in a deep deep depression. the first time i had been betrayed by a woman. not just any woman. the woman of my dreams. dont say a anime girl cant hur...

Dave R · Dave R

I sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what God's will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful. =The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us is--and the less it matters. Kn...

Dave R · Dave R

"Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves."Basic Text, p. 36=Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word humbly ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Pe...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our Higher power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of God's will for us. Basic Text p. 92 It's not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first time. In addiction,...

Dave R · Dave R

"...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another." Basic Text, p. 105 = Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denomina...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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....

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

LostWife · LostWife

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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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...

Dave R · Dave R

"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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	...'back on th'planet ' again!!......... recovery from surgery (Preview) . ...been 'away' a few months,,,thankfully in a good way. .....being a 'good' addict, and having finished the steps., I decided to dive headlong into step 11 material and did 3 1/2 months of work exchange at a meditation, retreat center in NY state. Quite an experience I'd have to say. Half the time I w...	mikah	30	2493	Nov 16, 2015 by mikah
	JFT November 16 Alone no more (Preview) "We gradually and carefully pull ourselves out of the isolation and loneliness of addiction and into the mainstream of life."Basic Text, p. 37=Many of us spent much of our using time alone, avoiding other people--especially people who were not using--at all costs. After years of isol...	Dave R	0	523	Nov 16, 2015 by Dave R
	What to be Grateful for..... (Preview) So I was feeling gloomy over having made a bad move or two in a big fishing contest (of all things), and decided I better work on a gratitude list. Any suggestions??	Davethewave	3	568	Nov 15, 2015 by Mike M
	JFT November 15 Letting go (Preview) "Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live."Basic Text, p. 26=How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through others. When we a...	Dave R	0	572	Nov 15, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 14 Not just surviving (Preview) "When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving."Basic Text, p. 52="I'd be better off dead!" A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was more of the same mis...	Dave R	0	591	Nov 14, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 13 Not perfect (Preview) "We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human."Basic Text, p. 31=All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe we imagined perfect ea...	Dave R	0	597	Nov 13, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 12 Our own story (Preview) "When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us."Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. "Som...	Dave R	0	534	Nov 12, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 11 From surrender to acceptance (Preview) "We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us."Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our...	Dave R	0	520	Nov 11, 2015 by Dave R
	....when to STEP IN??........ (Preview) . ...mannn,, I just heard that my half brother is running out of control. Drinking hard,, apparently suicidal. .....I'm not close with my dad's family,,but amazingly, my past Gfriend ended up moving into the same building ~3 years ago, so there's been some light contact with him through that sit...	mikah	9	779	Nov 11, 2015 by mikah
	Hong Kong (Preview) I'm going to Hong Kong later this month and wondered if anyone has been to NA meetings there. Are they in English? Are there any you would recommend? Thanks	Dave R	4	648	Nov 11, 2015 by BigV
	JFT November 10 Fear or faith? (Preview) "No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us."Basic Text, p. 14=For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situations gave us a conve...	Dave R	0	555	Nov 10, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 9 The best laid plans (Preview) "It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 91=There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: "If you want to make God laugh, make plans." When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but theres a nervous edge to our lau...	Dave R	0	553	Nov 9, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 8 Freed from insanity (Preview) "Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident?"Basic Text, p. 24=We've heard it said that unless we're in love, we can't remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once we're freed of it, we may forge...	Dave R	0	628	Nov 8, 2015 by Dave R
	Cautionary tale, Anime warning (Preview) when i was around 11 or possibly 12 the episode of dragonball z where bulma and vegeta begin their relationship was broadcast in my country. i immediately sunk in a deep deep depression. the first time i had been betrayed by a woman. not just any woman. the woman of my dreams. dont say a anime girl cant hur...	EnyaFan33335225	2	683	Nov 8, 2015 by mikah
	JFT November 7 Feeling God's will (Preview) I sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what God's will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful. =The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us is--and the less it matters. Kn...	Dave R	0	601	Nov 7, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 6 Understanding humility (Preview) "Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves."Basic Text, p. 36=Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word humbly ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Pe...	Dave R	0	589	Nov 6, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 5 God's guidance (Preview) "Our Higher power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of God's will for us. Basic Text p. 92 It's not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first time. In addiction,...	Dave R	0	577	Nov 5, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 4 Exchanging love (Preview) "...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another." Basic Text, p. 105 = Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denomina...	Dave R	0	560	Nov 4, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 3 No matter what (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	542	Nov 3, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT November 2 Living with unresolved problems (Preview) "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...	Dave R	1	698	Nov 2, 2015 by mikah
	JFT November 1 Awakening (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	575	Nov 1, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT October 31 Our relationship with our higher power (Preview) "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....	Dave R	0	676	Oct 31, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT October 30 Courage (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	569	Oct 30, 2015 by Dave R
	Need some advice- as a wife of an addict (Preview) 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...	LostWife	2	719	Oct 29, 2015 by mikah
	JFT October 29 Living in the now (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	530	Oct 29, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT October 28 Attitudes (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	546	Oct 28, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT October 27 Living in the present (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	529	Oct 27, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT October 26 The path to self-acceptance (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	597	Oct 26, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT October 25 Principles before personalities (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	583	Oct 25, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT October 24 Responsibility (Preview) "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...	Dave R	0	509	Oct 24, 2015 by Dave R
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