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Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

Dave R · Dave R

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...

cdbuckberry · cdbuckberry

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.

g0923h · g0923h

What time does the meeting start central if it starts at 9 est? please help me!!!!

Dave R · Dave R

Unity is a must in Narcotics Anonymous. Basic Text, p. 63 = Unity is not uniformity. Unity springs from the fact that we have unity of purpose--to recover, and to help others stay clean. Even so, we often find that while we strive to fulfill the same purpose, our means and methods may be radically d...

Dave R · Dave R

Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise, and that is freedom from active addiction... Basic Text, p. 106 = Imagine how it might be if we had arrived at the doors of Narcotics Anonymous, desperate, wanting to stop using drugs, only to be met by a sales pitch: "If you just work the steps and d...

Dave R · Dave R

When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably. Basic Text, p. 99 = Some of us seem to make mountains out of molehills with our problems. Even those of us who've found some measure of serenity have probably blown a problem far out of proportion at some time in our r...

Dave R · Dave R

Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, our attitudes, and our relationships on a regular basis. Basic Text, p. 42 = The daily inventory is a tool we can use to simplify our lives. The most complicated part of taking a regular inventor...

Dave R · Dave R

As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving. At least we know that we are no longer intentionally making life miserable for people. Basic Text, pp. 39-40 = In our addiction we often treated others badly, sometimes deliberately finding ways to make their lives miserable. In...

Dave R · Dave R

We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected.... [But] our fellow members do understand us. Basic Text, p. 32 = We need our fellow NA members--their experience, their friendship, their laughter, their guidance, and much, much more. Yet many of us hesitate...

Dave R · Dave R

We grow to feel comfortable with our Higher Power as a source of strength. As we learn to trust this Power, we begin to overcome our fear of life. Basic Text, p. 25 = Powerless as we are, living on self-will is a frightening, unmanageable experience. In recovery, we have turned our will and our lives s...

Dave R · Dave R

Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us.... The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves. Basic Text, p. 24 = We've been told that we can believe in any kind of Higher Power we want as long as it is loving and, of course, greater than ourselves...

Dave R · Dave R

Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat. Basic Text, p. 22 = Complete defeat--what a concept! That must mean surrender. Surrender--to give up absolutely. To quit with no reservations. To put up our hands and quit fighting. Maybe to put up our hand at our first m...

Dave R · Dave R

Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps... Step Twelve = How will I know when I have had a spiritual awakening? For many of us, a spiritual awakening comes gradually. Perhaps our first spiritual awareness is as simple as a new appreciation for life. Maybe one day well suddenly...

Dave R · Dave R

As we develop faith in our daily lives, we find that our Higher Power supplies us with the strength and guidance that we need. Basic Text, p. 94 = Some of us come into recovery very frightened and insecure. We feel weak and alone. We are uncertain of our direction and dont know where to go for answers. ...

FallenPredecessor · FallenPredecessor

Hi. I had...yes HAD 23yrs. I don't consider the last 3yrs anything but relaxed and casual white knuckling it. But for many many years I was VERY active. Started meetings, chaired, sponsored, had a sponsor... So I now have 18 months and I am a little tired of the repeated stories of long term clean time n...

Dave R · Dave R

I'm very grateful to have come to believe. IP No. 21, The Loner = Belief in a Higher Power can make all the difference when the going gets tough! When things don't go our way in recovery, our sponsor may direct us to make a gratitude list. When we do, we should include our faith in a Power greater than o...

Dave R · Dave R

Our earliest involvements with others often begin with our sponsor. Basic Text, p. 57 = Our sponsors can be abundant sources of recovery information, wisdom, and loving words. They've done so much for us. From the late night telephone calls to the hours spent listening to our recovery writing...

kitty doyle · kitty doyle

Happy New Year everyone! As I head into 2015 and grasp at the threads of prosperity in the knowledge that I will finally graduate after four long years of part-time studies while working 2-3 jobs, I still find myself burdened with negative thoughts about how my addiction/recovery will continue to im...

Dave R · Dave R

Our spiritual condition is the basis for a successful recovery that offers unlimited growth. Basic Text, p. 44 = When our members celebrate their recovery anniversaries, they often say that they've grown up in NA. Well, then, we think, what does that mean? We start to wonder if were grownups...

Dave R · Dave R

Narcotics Anonymous offers addicts a program of recovery that is more than just a life without drugs. Not only is this way of life better than the hell we lived, it is better than any life that we have ever known. Basic Text, p. 107 = Few of us have any interest in recovering what we had before we started...

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	JFT February 1 Hardships (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	362	Feb 1, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 31 Trust (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	360	Jan 31, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 30 Giving it away (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	354	Jan 31, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 29 The First Step--an action step (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	342	Jan 29, 2015 by Mike M
	JFT January 28 An every-day addict (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	355	Jan 28, 2015 by Mike M
	JFT January 27 Learning how to live again (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	381	Jan 27, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 26 Self-centeredness (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	337	Jan 26, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	January 25 An added gift (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	315	Jan 26, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 24 From isolation to connection (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	377	Jan 24, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 23 Serenity check (Preview) 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...	Dave R	2	418	Jan 24, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 22 The school of recovery (Preview) 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...	Dave R	1	348	Jan 24, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	Still an addict after 10 years in Recovery (Preview) 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.	cdbuckberry	6	742	Jan 22, 2015 by BigV
	im a lil confused on the timing im in Jackson Mississippi (Preview) What time does the meeting start central if it starts at 9 est? please help me!!!!	g0923h	2	388	Jan 21, 2015 by mikah
	JFT January 21 Unity and uniformity (Preview) Unity is a must in Narcotics Anonymous. Basic Text, p. 63 = Unity is not uniformity. Unity springs from the fact that we have unity of purpose--to recover, and to help others stay clean. Even so, we often find that while we strive to fulfill the same purpose, our means and methods may be radically d...	Dave R	1	413	Jan 21, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 20 One promise, many gifts (Preview) Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise, and that is freedom from active addiction... Basic Text, p. 106 = Imagine how it might be if we had arrived at the doors of Narcotics Anonymous, desperate, wanting to stop using drugs, only to be met by a sales pitch: "If you just work the steps and d...	Dave R	1	380	Jan 21, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	January 19 Making mountains into molehills (Preview) When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably. Basic Text, p. 99 = Some of us seem to make mountains out of molehills with our problems. Even those of us who've found some measure of serenity have probably blown a problem far out of proportion at some time in our r...	Dave R	1	353	Jan 19, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 18 The simple inventory (Preview) Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, our attitudes, and our relationships on a regular basis. Basic Text, p. 42 = The daily inventory is a tool we can use to simplify our lives. The most complicated part of taking a regular inventor...	Dave R	1	411	Jan 18, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFt January 17 Forgiveness (Preview) As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving. At least we know that we are no longer intentionally making life miserable for people. Basic Text, pp. 39-40 = In our addiction we often treated others badly, sometimes deliberately finding ways to make their lives miserable. In...	Dave R	2	345	Jan 17, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 16 Make that call (Preview) We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected.... [But] our fellow members do understand us. Basic Text, p. 32 = We need our fellow NA members--their experience, their friendship, their laughter, their guidance, and much, much more. Yet many of us hesitate...	Dave R	1	371	Jan 17, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 15 Fear (Preview) We grow to feel comfortable with our Higher Power as a source of strength. As we learn to trust this Power, we begin to overcome our fear of life. Basic Text, p. 25 = Powerless as we are, living on self-will is a frightening, unmanageable experience. In recovery, we have turned our will and our lives s...	Dave R	1	334	Jan 15, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 14 A loving God (Preview) Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us.... The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves. Basic Text, p. 24 = We've been told that we can believe in any kind of Higher Power we want as long as it is loving and, of course, greater than ourselves...	Dave R	1	363	Jan 14, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 13 Surrender to win (Preview) Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat. Basic Text, p. 22 = Complete defeat--what a concept! That must mean surrender. Surrender--to give up absolutely. To quit with no reservations. To put up our hands and quit fighting. Maybe to put up our hand at our first m...	Dave R	1	358	Jan 13, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 12 Spiritual awakenings (Preview) Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps... Step Twelve = How will I know when I have had a spiritual awakening? For many of us, a spiritual awakening comes gradually. Perhaps our first spiritual awareness is as simple as a new appreciation for life. Maybe one day well suddenly...	Dave R	1	384	Jan 13, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 11 Faith (Preview) As we develop faith in our daily lives, we find that our Higher Power supplies us with the strength and guidance that we need. Basic Text, p. 94 = Some of us come into recovery very frightened and insecure. We feel weak and alone. We are uncertain of our direction and dont know where to go for answers. ...	Dave R	1	339	Jan 13, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	Oldtimer goes out... ReEntry and * (Preview) Hi. I had...yes HAD 23yrs. I don't consider the last 3yrs anything but relaxed and casual white knuckling it. But for many many years I was VERY active. Started meetings, chaired, sponsored, had a sponsor... So I now have 18 months and I am a little tired of the repeated stories of long term clean time n...	FallenPredecessor	16	1500	Jan 10, 2015 by Persephone
	JFT January 10 Gratitude (Preview) I'm very grateful to have come to believe. IP No. 21, The Loner = Belief in a Higher Power can make all the difference when the going gets tough! When things don't go our way in recovery, our sponsor may direct us to make a gratitude list. When we do, we should include our faith in a Power greater than o...	Dave R	1	461	Jan 10, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 9 Returning our sponsor's kindness (Preview) Our earliest involvements with others often begin with our sponsor. Basic Text, p. 57 = Our sponsors can be abundant sources of recovery information, wisdom, and loving words. They've done so much for us. From the late night telephone calls to the hours spent listening to our recovery writing...	Dave R	1	376	Jan 10, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	I hate that I'm still an addict after 20 years (Preview) Happy New Year everyone! As I head into 2015 and grasp at the threads of prosperity in the knowledge that I will finally graduate after four long years of part-time studies while working 2-3 jobs, I still find myself burdened with negative thoughts about how my addiction/recovery will continue to im...	kitty doyle	10	652	Jan 10, 2015 by mikah
	JFT January 8 Growing up (Preview) Our spiritual condition is the basis for a successful recovery that offers unlimited growth. Basic Text, p. 44 = When our members celebrate their recovery anniversaries, they often say that they've grown up in NA. Well, then, we think, what does that mean? We start to wonder if were grownups...	Dave R	1	384	Jan 8, 2015 by cdbuckberry
	JFT January 7 "Recovery" (Preview) Narcotics Anonymous offers addicts a program of recovery that is more than just a life without drugs. Not only is this way of life better than the hell we lived, it is better than any life that we have ever known. Basic Text, p. 107 = Few of us have any interest in recovering what we had before we started...	Dave R	1	400	Jan 8, 2015 by cdbuckberry
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