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JFT November 22 Foundation first
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As we begin to function in society, our creative freedom helps us sort our priorities and do the basic things first. Basic Text, p. 83 = No sooner do we get clean than some of us begin putting other priorities ahead of our recovery. Careers, families, relationships--all these are part of the life we...
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JFT November 21 Letting our defects go
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Letting our defects go If [character defects] contributed to our health and happiness, we would not have come to such a state of desperation. Basic Text, p. 34 Getting started on the Sixth and Seventh Steps isn't always easy. We may feel as though we have so much wrong with us that we are totally def...
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JFT November 20 Finding fulfillment
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We werent oriented toward fulfillment; we focused on the emptiness and worthlessness of it all. Basic Text, p. 86 = There were probably hundreds of times in our active addiction when we wished we could become someone else. We may have wished we could trade places with someone who owned a nice car or...
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Ebol, Terrorism, world calamity
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I heard a lady with many years of sobriety say outside a meeting the other day that she was afraid of things happening in the world, my comment back was, " this program gives us courage, we should not live in fear, she shut up :) But its true, we all lived in fear some in terror for so long we should be liv...
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First day home
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My 21 yo daughter is coming home from rehab tomorrow...when she called last night she informed me that she really did not want to come home if as in her words she was going to be a prisoner. She wants me to give her phone back and let her use her car as she pleases....and if I don't comply then it will be the rea...
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JFT November 19 The language of empathy
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...the addict would find from the start as much identification as each needed to convince himself that he could stay clean, by the example of others who had recovered for many years. Basic Text, p. 85 = Many of us attended our first meeting and, not being entirely sure that NA was for us, found much to c...
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JFT November 18 Self-discovery
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The Tenth Step can help us correct our living problems and prevent their recurrence. Basic Text, p. 41 = Our identities, how we think and feel, have been shaped by our experiences. Some of our experiences have made us better people; others have caused us shame or embarrassment; all of them have inf...
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JFT November 17 Walking through the pain
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We never have to use again, no matter how we feel. All feelings will eventually pass. Basic Text, p. 82 = It hurts like never before. You get out of bed after a sleepless night, talk to God, and still dont feel any better. It will pass, a little voice tells you. When? you wonder, as you pace and mutter...
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JFT November 16 Alone no more
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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 isolation, tryi...
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JFT November 14 Not just surviving
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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 miserable existence. Our hol...
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JFT November 15 Letting go
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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 accept that we don...
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JFT November 13 Not perfect
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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 ease in our int...
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JFT November 10 Fear or faith?
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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 convenient excuse...
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JFT November 8 Freed from insanity
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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 were in love, we can't remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once were freed of it, we may forget how truly biz...
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JFT November 6 Understanding humility
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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. Perhaps we chose to...
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JFT November 7 Feeling God's will
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I sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what Gods 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. Know...
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Random
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I am in a random state of mind. I don't know who I am, whose I am and where I am going. I just found this place via google and it fit me. Hope you won't judge me. I live day by day, night ....
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JFT November 4 Exchanging love
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...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 denominator, connecti...
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JFT November 5 God's guidance
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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. 95 = Its 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, we...
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JFT November 3 No matter what
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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 were in recovery its all wonderful. We feel that we might scare so...
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JFT November 2 Living with unresolved problems
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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 know what its...
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JFT November 1 Awakening
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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--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 the problems wed c...
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JFT October 31 Our relationship with a higher power
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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. But the step...
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JFT October 30 Courage
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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 liberal dose of coura...
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New member, going to addiction treatment, a few questions..
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Hello everyone. First off, let me tell you I am on subutex and klonopin. Legally, of course. I just wanted to make sure it was okay that I post here, even though I'm not technically "sober" I've been told at meetings, that if I'm on any sort of narcotic, I shouldn't speak.. just listen. I just w...
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JFT October 29 Living in the now
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Living 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. That's why, in Narcotics A...
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JFT October 28 Attitudes
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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 peoples inventories you can barely stand yourself? What about when you find yourself snapping at your cowor...
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going cold turkey
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new to the forum. i am going cold turkey today. stated a few yrs ago for fun with friends couple pain killers then over time is was 6-8 a day.. what can i expect cant tell anyone so going to do this alone
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JFT October 27 Living in the present
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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 uncomfortable past. The...
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JFT October 26 The path to self-acceptance
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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 would reject u...
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