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Looking for an online NA sponsor
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I've tried to have sponsors in the past, albeit it's been a while, but they did not work out for various reasons. However, I think with the right sponsor, willing to dedicate a little time that I can click with would be wonderful. I do have a limited schedule but there is always time for growth and every mo...
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JFT June 20 Meditation for beginners
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For some, prayer is asking for Gods help; meditation is listening for Gods answer.... Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us. Basic Text, pp. 46-47 = Be patient when youre learning to meditate, many of us were told. It takes p...
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Unsustainable
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I am at day four of withdrawal from opiates. I have never done this before. I realized I was unsustainable. My drugs were unsustainable and my life was unsustainable. I do not remember the last time I did not depend on opiates. It started innocent enough, heart surgeries, back pain and hospitals...
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JFT June 19 A sense of humor
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We find that when we lose self-obsession, we are able to understand what it means to be happy, joyous, and free. Basic Text, p. 107 = The laughter in our meetings often surprises the newcomer. As a group, we appreciate the healing that healthy laughter brings. Even if we are deeply troubled, the jo...
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June 18 Indirect amends
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Indirect amends may be necessary where direct ones would be unsafe or endanger other people. Basic Text, p. 41 = When we used, we allowed nothing to stand in the way of that next high. As a result, many of us didnt always know precisely whom we had injured, either financially or emotionally. When it...
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JFT June 17 Walls
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Reaching out is the beginning of the struggle that will set us free. It will break down the walls that imprison us. Basic Text, p. 83 = Many of us came to NA emotionally shattered. Years of using people and allowing them to use us had taken their toll on our ability to trust anyone, ourselves included...
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Recovery is like a vast supply of water....
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Welcome to Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums! Twelve Step recovery programs can be a life sustaining substance to many people, just as water is.You can get a cup full or a barrel full. There is plenty here to take as much as you want or need.If you leave too quickly and don't get enough, you are...
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JFT June 16 Accepting life
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Some things we must accept, others we can change. The wisdom to know the difference comes with growth in our spiritual program. Basic Text, p. 95 = Its relatively easy to accept the things we like; it's the things we don't like that are hard to accept. But remaking the world and everyone in it to su...
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Recovery
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Hey everyone I went and saw a documentary last night with a recovery group and I just wanted to share it with you. It's called The Anonymous People a documentary about recovery. I thought it was well done and I recommend it for everyone to watch addicts and non addicts. It is available online for like $4 -...
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Violating Sixth Tradition?
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Hi friends, We have a long tradition in the two Areas I've served of distributing IPs to recovery homes and treatment centers. I assume that by so doing, we have not "lent the N.A. name" to these facilities. Is there any reason why distributing an Area Newsletter to these facilities would v...
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JFT June 15 Resistance to change
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Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing, or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for the unknown. Basic Text, p. 34 = We have often heard it said that when the pain of remaining the same becomes gre...
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JFT June 14 Maintaining our faith
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If we maintain our spiritual condition daily, we find it easier to deal with the pain and confusion. Basic Text, p. 95 = When we first began searching for a Power greater than ourselves, many of us got stuck in old beliefs or ideas. These ranged from the fear of a punishing or vengeful God to no belief a...
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struggling
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im struggling to stay clean with all of the stress and im trying to quit drinking any advice?
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JFT June 13 A full life
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The program works a miracle in our lives.... We become free to live. Basic Text, p. 11 = Most of us if we've been in recovery for any length of time at all have heard some member complaining in a meeting about being terribly overworked, too busy for meetings or sponsorship or other activities. In fac...
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JFT June 12 A vision of hope
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Yes, we are a vision of hope... Basic Text, p. 53 = By the time we reached the end of our road, many of us had lost all hope for a life without the use of drugs. We believed we were destined to die from our disease. What an inspiration it was, then, coming to our first meeting and seeing a room full of addict...
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JFT June 11 Living clean
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As we recover, we gain a new outlook on being clean.... Life can become a new adventure for us. Basic Text, p. 91 = The using life is not a clean oneno one knows this better than we do. Some of us lived in physical squalor, caring neither for our surroundings nor ourselves. Worse, though, than any ext...
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JFT June 10 Changing motives
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When we finally get our own selfish motives out of the way, we begin to find a peace that we never imagined possible. Basic Text, p. 45 = As we examine our beliefs, our actions, and our motives in recovery, well find that sometimes we do things for the wrong reasons. In our early recovery, we may have sp...
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JFT June 9 Old dreams needn't die
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Lost dreams awaken and new possibilities arise. Basic Text, p. 91 = Most of us had dreams when we were young. Whether we dreamed of a dynamic career, a large and loving family, or travels abroad, our dreams died when our addiction took hold. Anything we ever wanted for ourselves was cast away in our...
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JFT June 8 The only requirement
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This program offers hope. All you have to bring with you is the desire to stop using and the willingness to try this new way of life. IP No. 16, For the Newcomer = From time to time we wonder if were doing it right in Narcotics Anonymous. Are we attending enough meetings? Are we using our sponsor, or w...
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JFT June 7 Someone who believes in me
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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. 100 = Not all of us arrive in NA and automatically stay clean. But if we keep coming back, we find in Narcotics Anonymous the support we need for our recovery. Staying clean is easier w...
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JFT June 5 Honest prayer
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Although honesty is difficult to practice, it is most rewarding. Basic Text, p. 96 = How difficult we find it to be honest! Many of us come to NA so confused about what really happened in our lives that it sometimes takes months and years to sort it all out. The truth of our history is not always as we ha...
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MIP Site Hosting and Domain Reg. Funding Met!
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A big thank you goes out to everyone who made a donation to help pay for 2 years coverage on our web hosting and domain address! The total donated in the past 48 hours is 323.52. 275.00 was needed to cover our web site hosting and domain name registration (12stepforums.net) for 2 years. This leaves us...
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JFT June 6 Recovery doesn't happen overnight
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The Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous are a progressive recovery process established in our daily living. Basic Text, p. 99 = After some time in recovery, we may find we are faced with what seem like overwhelming personal problems, angry feelings, and despair. When we realize whats going on, w...
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I keep ckicking on your step work board link and getting AL ANON???
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JFT June 3 Direct and indirect amends
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We make our amends to the best of our ability. Basic Text, p. 40 = The Ninth Step tells us to make direct amends wherever possible. Our experience tells us to follow up those direct amends with long-lasting changes in our attitudes and our behaviorthat is, with indirect amends. For example, say w...
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JFT Juune 4 Build, don't destroy
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Our negative sense of self has been replaced by a positive concern for others. Basic Text, p. 16 = Spreading gossip feeds a dark hunger in us. Sometimes we think the only way we can feel good about ourselves is to make someone else look bad by comparison. But the kind of self-esteem that can be purch...
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JFT May 31 Keep it simple
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We live a day at a time but also from moment to moment. When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably. Basic Text, p. 99 = Life often seems too complicated to understand, especially for those of us whove dodged it for so long. When we stopped using drugs, many of u...
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Newsletter Subcommittee Guidelines?
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Hello friends, Do any of you have a set of Guidelines for a Newsletter Subcommittee that has worked for you? If so, would you share it, please? Thanks in advance. Lee
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JFT June 2 Sick and tired
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We wanted an easy way out.... When we did seek help, we were only looking for the absence of pain. Basic Text, p. 5 = Somethings not working. In fact, somethings been wrong for a long time, causing us pain and complicating our lives. The problem is that, at any given moment, it always appears easier...
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I want your advice
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I'm sorry this is not really recovery related but I need some help. Some of you know that I am engaged soon to be married in August. My heart is splitting in two and I don't know what to do. I love my fiancé with all my heart and I can't imagine my life without him but there is a spot in my heart that is falling out...
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