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JFT February 18 The recovery partnership
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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...
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JFT February 20 Powerlessness and personal responsibility
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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 February 19 Reservations
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Relapse is never an accident. Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program. Basic Text, p. 79 = A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and-such happens, we will surely relapse. What event do we expect will b...
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The power of addiction
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JFT February 17 Carrying the message, not the addict
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They can be analyzed, counseled, reasoned with, prayed over, threatened, beaten, or locked up, but they will not stop until they want to stop. Basic Text, p. 65 = Perhaps one of the most difficult truths we must face in our recovery is that we are as powerless over another's addiction as we are over ou...
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JFT February 15 An awakening of the spirit
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The last thing we expected was an awakening of the spirit. Basic Text, p. 49 = Few of us came to our first Narcotics Anonymous meeting aching to take a personal inventory or believing that a spiritual void existed in our souls. We had no inkling that we were about to embark on a journey which would awa...
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JFT February 14 Honesty and spirituality
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The right to a God of your understanding is total and without any catches. Because we have this right, it is necessary to be honest about our belief if we are to grow spiritually. Basic Text, pp. 25-26 = In meetings, over refreshments, in talks with our sponsor, we hear our NA friends talking about th...
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JFT February 10 Fun!
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In recovery, our ideas of fun change. Basic Text, p. 107 = In retrospect, many of us realize that when we used, our ideas of fun were rather bizarre. Some of us would get dressed up and head for the local club. We would dance, drink, and do drugs until the sun rose. On more than one occasion, gun ba...
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JFT February 12 Living in the moment
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We regretted the past, dreaded the future, and weren't too thrilled about the present. Basic Text, p. 7 = Until we experience the healing that happens when we work the Twelve Steps, it is doubtful that we can find a statement more true than the quote above. Most of us come to NA hanging our heads in sha...
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is there anybody in here??
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Looks like everything is out dated
I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.
Please reply
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JFT February 11 A curse into a blessing
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We have become very grateful in the course of our recovery.... We have a disease, but we do recover. Basic Text, p. 8 = Active addiction was no picnic; many of us barely came out of it alive. But ranting against the disease, lamenting what it has done to us, pitying ourselves for the condition it has le...
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grateful
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Im an addict named Troy. I know a big part of me staying clean is being grateful for my life in recovery. I hit my first candlelight meeting last night. It was awesome. So much hope came out of that meeting. Im so grateful that addicts started that meeting. Its only its third week open. There was 8 of us( i li...
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JFT February 4 Feeling good isn't the point
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For us, recovery is more than just pleasure. Basic Text, p. 43 = In our active addiction, most of us knew exactly how we were going to feel from one day to the next. All we had to do was read the label on the bottle or know what was in the bag. We planned our feelings, and our goal for each day was to feel good...
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JFT February 5 Keep coming back
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We are grateful that we were made so welcome at meetings that we felt comfortable. Basic Text, p. 83 = Remember how scared we were when we walked into our first NA meeting? Even if we walked in with a friend, most of us recall how difficult it was to attend that first meeting. What was it that kept us com...
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JFT February 8 What is a sponsor?
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February 8 What is a sponsor? an NA sponsor is a member of Narcotics Anonymous, living our program of recovery, who is willing to build a special, supportive, one-on-one relationship with us. IP No. 11, Sponsorship, Revised = What is a sponsor? You know: That nice person with whom you had coffee...
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suggestions
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Im an addict named Troy. Ive been in recovery for 27 months. Here of lately i have been finding it harder to reach out. Harder to go to meetings. I have been done writing on my 8th step for almost 4 months. I dont have that fire under me. I talk to my sponsor 4 or 5 times a week. Talk to other addicts everyday. I h...
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JFT February 3 We need each other
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Anyone may join us, regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion. Basic Text, p. 9 = Addiction closed our minds to anything new or different. We didn't need anyone or anything, we thought. There was nothing of value to be found in anyone from a different neighbo...
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JFT February 2 Goodwill
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Goodwill is best exemplified in service; proper service is Doing the right thing for the right reason. Basic Text, p. xv = The spiritual core of our disease is self-centeredness. In dealing with others, the only motive our addiction taught us was selfishness--we wanted what we wanted when we wan...
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JFT February 1 Hardships
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We felt different.... Only after surrender are we able to overcome the alienation of addiction. Basic Text, p. 22 = But you dont understand! we spluttered, trying to cover up. Im different! Ive really got it rough! We used these lines over and over in our active addiction, either trying to es...
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JFT January 31 Trust
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Just for today I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery. Basic Text, p. 93 = Learning to trust is a risky proposition. Our past experience as using addicts has taught us that our companions could not be trusted. Most of all, we couldnt trust ourselves. Now...
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JFT January 30 Giving it away
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We must give freely and gratefully that which has been freely and gratefully given to us. Basic Text, p. 49 = In recovery, we receive many gifts. Perhaps one of the greatest of these gifts is the spiritual awakening that begins when we stop using, growing stronger each day we apply the steps in our li...
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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 live, even f...
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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 old refrain...
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JFT January 27 Learning how to live again
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We learn new ways to live. We are no longer limited to our old ideas. Basic Text, p. 56 = We may or may not have been taught right from wrong and other basics of life as children. No matter, by the time we found recovery, most of us had only the vaguest idea of how to live. Our isolation from the rest of soc...
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JFT January 26 Self-centeredness
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The spiritual part of our disease is our total self-centeredness. Basic Text, p. 20 = What is self-centeredness? It is our belief that the world revolves around us. Our wishes, our demands are the only ones worth consideration. Our self-centered minds believe they are capable of getting ever...
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January 25 An added gift
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We see it happening among us every day. This miraculous turnabout is evidence of a spiritual awakening. Basic Text, p. 51 = We watch them walk in to their first meeting defeated, their spirits broken. Their suffering is obvious, and their desire for help even more apparent. They collect a welcom...
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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 living, sure...
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JFT January 23 Serenity check
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Lack of daily maintenance can show up in many ways. Basic Text, p. 95 = Ever had a perfect stranger remark about how great the weather was, only to reply It stinks? When this happens, we are probably suffering from a lack of daily maintenance in our program. In recovery, life can get pretty hectic. M...
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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 notes we can ref...
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Still an addict after 10 years in Recovery
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I know I'm still an addict at 10 years clean. I have have that addictive thinking . Like if I want some material thing I have to have it . If I don't get it then I'm not happy. Or I get it then I want to return the item I bought. As long as I never use and don't let my desire for things I don't need , I'll be ok.
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