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Dave R · Dave R

The steps are our solution. They are our survival kit. They are our defense against addiction, a deadly disease. Our steps are the principles that make our recovery possible. Basic Text, p. 19 = There's lots to like in Narcotics Anonymous. The meetings, for one, are great. We get to see our fri...

Dave R · Dave R

It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another. It will make us feel better to clean up our lives... Basic Text, p. 38 = Sometimes we need something tangible to help us understand what holding a resentment is doing to us. We may not be aware of how destructive resentments actually ar...

Dave R · Dave R

When we accept ourselves, we can accept others into our lives, unconditionally, probably for the first time. IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance = From our earliest memories, many of us felt like we never belonged. No matter how big the gathering, we always felt apart from the crowd. We had a hard time fi...

Dave R · Dave R

As long as the ties that bind us together are stronger than those that would tear us apart, all will be well. Basic Text, p. 60 = Many of us feel that without NA we would surely have died from our disease. Hence, its existence is our very lifeline. However, disunity is an occasional fact of life in Narc...

Dave R · Dave R

We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step Ten = In Narcotics Anonymous, we've found that the more we live in harmony with our Higher Power's will for us, the greater the harmony in our lives. We use the Tenth Step to help us maintain that harmony. On a d...

Dave R · Dave R

It would be tragic to write [out an inventory only to] shove it in a drawer. These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure. Basic Text, p. 32 = How many times have we heard it said that we are only as sick as our secrets? While many members choose not to use meetings to share the intimate d...

Dave R · Dave R

Self-pity is one of the most destructive of defects; it will drain us of all positive energy. Basic Text, p. 80 = In active addiction, many of us used self-pity as a survival mechanism. We didn't believe there was an alternative to living in our disease--or perhaps we didn't want to believe. As lon...

mikah · mikah

As I get through the initial shock of some big changes in my life, I wake up feeling grateful for all the good things that recovery has brought to my life....I've learnt that there -can- be life after addiction,and know deep down that I can get through this challenge as well! ....one day a...

Dave R · Dave R

In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills. Basic Text, p. 90 = Making mountains out of molehills seems to be our specialty. Have you heard it said that to an addict, a flat tire is a traumatic event? Or how about those of us who forget all pretense of pri...

Dave R · Dave R

What we want most is to feel good about ourselves. Basic Text, p. 101 = Well love you until you can learn to love yourself. These words, heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerlythe day when we'll know how to love ourselves. Self-esteemwe all want this elusive quality as...

goodwife · goodwife

Just need someone to talk to. It's my husband who is the addict. Unfortunately, I was probably an enabler. I love him so! But he's gone now, arrested again, 2nd time, had "taters" on him, whatever that is. I wasn't raised or even anywhere close to this kind of stuff ever in my life until I...

Dave R · Dave R

The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we may forget that our first priority is to stay clean. Basic Text, p. 43 = Things can get really good in our recovery. Perhaps we've found our soul mate, built a rewarding career, started a family. Maybe our relationships with our family members h...

Dave R · Dave R

March 6 As a result of the Twelve Steps, I'm not able to hold on to old ways of deceiving myself. = We all rationalize. Sometimes we know we are rationalizing, admit we are rationalizing, yet continue to behave according to our rationalizations! Recovery can become very painful when we decide tha...

Dave R · Dave R

When a need arises for us to admit our powerlessness, we may first look for ways to exert power against it. After exhausting these ways, we begin sharing with others and find hope. Basic Text, p. 82 = Weve sometimes heard it said in our meetings that rude awakenings lead to spiritual awakenings. Wh...

Dave R · Dave R

This program has become a part of me.... I understand more clearly the things that are happening in my life today. I no longer fight the process. Basic Text, p. 127 = In active addiction, things happened seemingly without rhyme or reason. We just did things, often without knowing why or what the r...

Dave R · Dave R

There will be times, however, when we really feel like using. We want to run, and we feel lousy. We need to be reminded of where we came from and that it will be worse this time. This is when we need the program the most. Basic Text, p. 81 = If we're contemplating a relapse, we should think our using thro...

serenity_42Day · serenity_42Day

Hi Everyone! I just found this site accidentally while doing some research. I am currently kind of in a pickle. I am a mother of a young child so its difficult for me to get out to meetings accordingly. I do go just not as much as I would like. I'm sure there are those here that know the struggle of juggling fa...

Dave R · Dave R

[The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it. Basic Text, p. 27 = Ever had a panic attack? Everywhere we turn, life's demands overwhelm us. We're paralyzed, and we don't know what to do about it. How do we break an anxiety attack? First, we s...

Dave R · Dave R

Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar. Basic Text, p. 14 = Before coming to NA, few of us had much experience with success. Every attempt to stop using on our own had ended in failure. We had begun to give up hope of finding any relief from active addiction. We had grown accustomed to fa...

How Many Still Active Members?? · Roses

I just joined this forum and was curious as to how many members on this are still active? I checked out the number of members and it seems like a lot haven't accessed this in YEARS. Who's still carrying the message??

Dave R · Dave R

Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future. Basic Text, p. 96 = When we begin coming to meetings, we hear other addicts talking about the gifts they have received as a result of this program, things we never thought of as gifts before. One such gift is the renewed abili...

Dave R · Dave R

We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that weve been doing better than we've been feeling. Basic Text, p. 43 = Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: When you wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for reflection. Lie back, g...

Dave R · Dave R

The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse. Basic Text, p. 39 = Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to consider. Our remorse was often int...

Dave R · Dave R

"Personality change was what we really needed. Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary." Basic Text, p. 15 = In early life, most of us were capable of joy and wonder, of giving and receiving unconditional love. When we started using, we introduced an influe...

Dave R · Dave R

Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. Tradition Twelve = The Twelfth Tradition reminds us of the importance of putting principles before personalities. In recovery meetings, this might be paraphrased, don...

kellyrae428 · kellyrae428

i just have a question about sleep patterns after you stop using meth. i used speed for 35 yrs and now that ive been clean awhile i still find it impossibleto lay down and fall aasleep...it's miserable to say the least! my question is how long does insomnia last and what are some things i can do that im no...

Fran1972 · Fran1972

I have just stumbled across this site whilst looking for salvation.I went to go to a NA meeting tonight,my first,but turned back when I saw someone there who is not condusive to my well being.She is bad bad news so I didn't bother going.Now I know that you are probably thinking this is an excuse but it was...

nytepassion · nytepassion

Scotty's Story I know this is a long story, but please read it Let it soak into every fiber of your being. I met Scotty in 1986 at a bar that my roommate worked at. He would always come in with his friend Steve and they would sit around and BS drinking Crown Royal Shots (they were known as the Crow...

Dave R · Dave R

As long as I take it easy and make a commitment with my Higher Power to do the best I can, I know I will be taken care of today. = Many of us feel that our fundamental commitment in recovery is to our Higher Power. Knowing that we lack the power to stay clean and find recovery on our own, we enter into a partne...

Dave R · Dave R

Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems. Basic Text, p. 13 = When we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, we give away all of our personal power. We need to remember that we are powerless over our addiction, not our personal be...

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	JFT March 10 Our own recovery (Preview) The steps are our solution. They are our survival kit. They are our defense against addiction, a deadly disease. Our steps are the principles that make our recovery possible. Basic Text, p. 19 = There's lots to like in Narcotics Anonymous. The meetings, for one, are great. We get to see our fri...	Dave R	1	353	Mar 11, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT March 11 Lightening the load (Preview) It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another. It will make us feel better to clean up our lives... Basic Text, p. 38 = Sometimes we need something tangible to help us understand what holding a resentment is doing to us. We may not be aware of how destructive resentments actually ar...	Dave R	2	382	Mar 11, 2015 by mikah
	JFT February 9 Self-acceptance (Preview) When we accept ourselves, we can accept others into our lives, unconditionally, probably for the first time. IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance = From our earliest memories, many of us felt like we never belonged. No matter how big the gathering, we always felt apart from the crowd. We had a hard time fi...	Dave R	2	581	Mar 11, 2015 by NoTomorrowsz
	JFT February 13 The ties that bind (Preview) As long as the ties that bind us together are stronger than those that would tear us apart, all will be well. Basic Text, p. 60 = Many of us feel that without NA we would surely have died from our disease. Hence, its existence is our very lifeline. However, disunity is an occasional fact of life in Narc...	Dave R	3	449	Mar 11, 2015 by NoTomorrowsz
	JFT February 22 God's will, or mine? (Preview) We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step Ten = In Narcotics Anonymous, we've found that the more we live in harmony with our Higher Power's will for us, the greater the harmony in our lives. We use the Tenth Step to help us maintain that harmony. On a d...	Dave R	4	551	Mar 11, 2015 by NoTomorrowsz
	JFT February 25 Sick as our secrets (Preview) It would be tragic to write [out an inventory only to] shove it in a drawer. These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure. Basic Text, p. 32 = How many times have we heard it said that we are only as sick as our secrets? While many members choose not to use meetings to share the intimate d...	Dave R	2	384	Mar 10, 2015 by NoTomorrowsz
	JFT FEbruary 21 Self-pity or recovery--it's our choice (Preview) Self-pity is one of the most destructive of defects; it will drain us of all positive energy. Basic Text, p. 80 = In active addiction, many of us used self-pity as a survival mechanism. We didn't believe there was an alternative to living in our disease--or perhaps we didn't want to believe. As lon...	Dave R	2	455	Mar 10, 2015 by NoTomorrowsz
	...GRATITUDE...... (Preview) As I get through the initial shock of some big changes in my life, I wake up feeling grateful for all the good things that recovery has brought to my life....I've learnt that there -can- be life after addiction,and know deep down that I can get through this challenge as well! ....one day a...	mikah	4	492	Mar 10, 2015 by Davethewave
	JFT March 9 Small things (Preview) In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills. Basic Text, p. 90 = Making mountains out of molehills seems to be our specialty. Have you heard it said that to an addict, a flat tire is a traumatic event? Or how about those of us who forget all pretense of pri...	Dave R	2	369	Mar 10, 2015 by NoTomorrowsz
	JFT March 8 Learning to love ourselves (Preview) What we want most is to feel good about ourselves. Basic Text, p. 101 = Well love you until you can learn to love yourself. These words, heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerlythe day when we'll know how to love ourselves. Self-esteemwe all want this elusive quality as...	Dave R	1	351	Mar 9, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	Overwhelmed - (Preview) Just need someone to talk to. It's my husband who is the addict. Unfortunately, I was probably an enabler. I love him so! But he's gone now, arrested again, 2nd time, had "taters" on him, whatever that is. I wasn't raised or even anywhere close to this kind of stuff ever in my life until I...	goodwife	3	571	Mar 8, 2015 by MIKEF
	JFT March 7 Priorities (Preview) The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we may forget that our first priority is to stay clean. Basic Text, p. 43 = Things can get really good in our recovery. Perhaps we've found our soul mate, built a rewarding career, started a family. Maybe our relationships with our family members h...	Dave R	1	315	Mar 7, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT March 6 Rationalizing our recovery (Preview) March 6 As a result of the Twelve Steps, I'm not able to hold on to old ways of deceiving myself. = We all rationalize. Sometimes we know we are rationalizing, admit we are rationalizing, yet continue to behave according to our rationalizations! Recovery can become very painful when we decide tha...	Dave R	1	314	Mar 6, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT March 5 From rude awakening to spiritual awakening (Preview) When a need arises for us to admit our powerlessness, we may first look for ways to exert power against it. After exhausting these ways, we begin sharing with others and find hope. Basic Text, p. 82 = Weve sometimes heard it said in our meetings that rude awakenings lead to spiritual awakenings. Wh...	Dave R	1	270	Mar 5, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT March 4 The process (Preview) This program has become a part of me.... I understand more clearly the things that are happening in my life today. I no longer fight the process. Basic Text, p. 127 = In active addiction, things happened seemingly without rhyme or reason. We just did things, often without knowing why or what the r...	Dave R	1	324	Mar 5, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT March 3 Relapse (Preview) There will be times, however, when we really feel like using. We want to run, and we feel lousy. We need to be reminded of where we came from and that it will be worse this time. This is when we need the program the most. Basic Text, p. 81 = If we're contemplating a relapse, we should think our using thro...	Dave R	1	300	Mar 5, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	sponsor (Preview) Hi Everyone! I just found this site accidentally while doing some research. I am currently kind of in a pickle. I am a mother of a young child so its difficult for me to get out to meetings accordingly. I do go just not as much as I would like. I'm sure there are those here that know the struggle of juggling fa...	serenity_42Day	5	553	Mar 5, 2015 by Dave R
	JFT March 1 Anxiety attack (Preview) [The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it. Basic Text, p. 27 = Ever had a panic attack? Everywhere we turn, life's demands overwhelm us. We're paralyzed, and we don't know what to do about it. How do we break an anxiety attack? First, we s...	Dave R	2	464	Mar 2, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT March 2 Success (Preview) Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar. Basic Text, p. 14 = Before coming to NA, few of us had much experience with success. Every attempt to stop using on our own had ended in failure. We had begun to give up hope of finding any relief from active addiction. We had grown accustomed to fa...	Dave R	1	330	Mar 2, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	How Many Still Active Members?? (Preview) I just joined this forum and was curious as to how many members on this are still active? I checked out the number of members and it seems like a lot haven't accessed this in YEARS. Who's still carrying the message??	Roses	20	1015	Mar 1, 2015 by mikah
	JFT February 28 The greatest gift (Preview) Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future. Basic Text, p. 96 = When we begin coming to meetings, we hear other addicts talking about the gifts they have received as a result of this program, things we never thought of as gifts before. One such gift is the renewed abili...	Dave R	1	322	Feb 28, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT February 27 "Pure" motives (Preview) We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that weve been doing better than we've been feeling. Basic Text, p. 43 = Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: When you wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for reflection. Lie back, g...	Dave R	1	331	Feb 27, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT February 26 Remorse (Preview) The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse. Basic Text, p. 39 = Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to consider. Our remorse was often int...	Dave R	1	328	Feb 27, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT February 24 A new influence (Preview) "Personality change was what we really needed. Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary." Basic Text, p. 15 = In early life, most of us were capable of joy and wonder, of giving and receiving unconditional love. When we started using, we introduced an influe...	Dave R	1	312	Feb 24, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT February 23 Messages and messengers (Preview) Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. Tradition Twelve = The Twelfth Tradition reminds us of the importance of putting principles before personalities. In recovery meetings, this might be paraphrased, don...	Dave R	1	340	Feb 23, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	is there any recovering meth addicts? (Preview) i just have a question about sleep patterns after you stop using meth. i used speed for 35 yrs and now that ive been clean awhile i still find it impossibleto lay down and fall aasleep...it's miserable to say the least! my question is how long does insomnia last and what are some things i can do that im no...	kellyrae428	11	1733	Feb 23, 2015 by gettingbackup
	I can't stop my head arguing with itself (Preview) I have just stumbled across this site whilst looking for salvation.I went to go to a NA meeting tonight,my first,but turned back when I saw someone there who is not condusive to my well being.She is bad bad news so I didn't bother going.Now I know that you are probably thinking this is an excuse but it was...	Fran1972	5	1413	Feb 23, 2015 by gettingbackup
	Scotty's Story ends in death (Preview) Scotty's Story I know this is a long story, but please read it Let it soak into every fiber of your being. I met Scotty in 1986 at a bar that my roommate worked at. He would always come in with his friend Steve and they would sit around and BS drinking Crown Royal Shots (they were known as the Crow...	nytepassion	3	1356	Feb 23, 2015 by gettingbackup
	JFT February 18 The recovery partnership (Preview) As long as I take it easy and make a commitment with my Higher Power to do the best I can, I know I will be taken care of today. = Many of us feel that our fundamental commitment in recovery is to our Higher Power. Knowing that we lack the power to stay clean and find recovery on our own, we enter into a partne...	Dave R	3	364	Feb 22, 2015 by mikah
	JFT February 20 Powerlessness and personal responsibility (Preview) Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems. Basic Text, p. 13 = When we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, we give away all of our personal power. We need to remember that we are powerless over our addiction, not our personal be...	Dave R	2	457	Feb 20, 2015 by cdbuckberry
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