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JFT July 30 Regular inventory
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Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, attitudes, and relationships on a regular basis. Basic Text, p. 42 = Taking a regular inventory is a key element in our new pattern of living. In our addiction, we examined ourselves as little a...
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Online Sponsor?
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So I came across this board while searching for an online sponsor. Anyone that can help me over come intense meth cravings right now would be great. Thanks
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Don't know how much more I can take
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My spouse is comming off of methadone and is so angry all the time I don't know how to handle it anymore and I don't want any of this to reflect our children if anyone has any advice please let me know I am at a loss and just want my husband back.
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JFT July 29 Expectations
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As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving. Basic Text, p. 39 = Our behavior toward other people in our life is a mirror of our behavior toward ourselves. When we demand perfection of ourselves, we come to demand it from others around us, too. As we strive to repair and heal our...
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Anonymity and Newsletters
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Hello friends, Just wondering if any of you thought we violate the 12th Tradition by publishing a news story about an event and mentioning that, say, "Jim S. from Chicago" was the speaker. I know the last initial still protects his anonymity, but is there any other problem with it? Thanks f...
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JFT July 28 Secrets and intimacy
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We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected. Basic Text, p. 32 = Having relationships without barriers, ones in which we can be entirely open with our feelings, is something many of us desire. At the same time, the possibility of such intimacy causes us more f...
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I am so tickled
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The home that we currently live in is a mobile home across the front yard from our landlady. The landlady had her daughter, her daughter's boyfriend and her grandson move out to the property three months ago. They moved into the landlady's RV. We offered to move into the RV and give the kids the trail...
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JFT July 26 Unconditional surrender
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Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat. This can be frightening, but it is the foundation on which we have built our lives. Basic Text, p. 22 = Most of us have tried everything we can think of, exerted every ounce of force possible, to fill the spiritual hole inside us. ...
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JFT July 27 We do recover
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After coming to NA, we found ourselves among a very special group of people who have suffered like us and found recovery. In their experiences, freely shared, we found hope for ourselves. If the program worked for them, it would work for us. Basic Text, p. 10 = A newcomer walks into his or her first m...
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Very grateful to have been pardoned from addiction by my Higher Power and thanks to those in the rooms (and this room) for being there daily.
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JFT July 21 Surrender is for everyone
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July 21 Surrender is for everyone If, after a period of time, we find ourselves in trouble with our recovery, we have probably stopped doing one or more of the things that helped us in the earlier stages of our recovery. Basic Text, p. 95 = Surrender is just for newcomers, right? Wrong! After we've bee...
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JFT July 24 The masks have to go
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...we covered low self-esteem by hiding behind phony images that we hoped would fool people. The masks have to go. Basic Text, p. 33 = Over-sensitivity, insecurity, and lack of identity are often associated with active addiction. Many of us carry these with us into recovery; our fears of inadequ...
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JFT June 25 Twelfth Step "failure"?
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Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.Step Twelve=There is no such thing as a failed Twelfth Step call. Even if our prospect doesnt get clean, we have accomplished two purposes. W...
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Can you think of one?
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I have a question. It's a little hard to word though. Can you think of any 'horrible' event or circumstance in your life, that hasn't set you on a road to a treasure that you would have gladly paid the price of that event? For instance, active addiction. If you haven't been there, words are of no use. I...
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JFT June 23 Surrendering self-will
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July 23 Surrendering self-will We want and demand that things always go our way. We should know from our past experience that our way of doing things did not work. Basic Text, p. 93 = All of us have ideas, plans, goals for our lives. Theres nothing in the NA program that says we shouldn't think for ours...
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JFT July 22 Spiritual death
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For us, to use is to die, often in more ways than one. Basic Text, p. 82 = As newcomers, many of us came to our first meeting with only a small spark of life remaining. That spark, our spirit, wants to survive. Narcotics Anonymous nurtures that spirit. The love of the fellowship quickly fans that spa...
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Childhood heros
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I had two. In fact, they remain my heroes. They have both shaped my life for good in ways are beyond what I can calculate. I contacted them both today via e-mail and explained how they have positively impacted my life. AND ONE OF THEM JUST CALLED ME! I did not think I had that level of exhilaration in...
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6 Days clean.
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Im dave..26. My girlfriend i are opiate addicts. We live day to day finding oxy. Usually 30-120mg a day. She is currently in rehab. She is on her 6th day and i am trying to keep up on my own. her family has the money to provide professional help, i have no way of doing so right now...has anyone out there made i...
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JFT July 19 Fulfilling our dreams
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Dreams that we gave up long ago can now become realities. Basic Text, p. 71 = All things begin with a dream. But how many of us fulfilled our dreams while using? Even if we managed to complete something we had started, our addiction usually robbed us of any pride in our accomplishment. Perhaps whe...
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JFT July 20 Step One
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We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable. Step One = The First Step begins with we, and theres a reason for that. There is great strength in making a verbal admission of our powerlessness. And when we go to meetings and make this admission, we ga...
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Having had a Higher Power and needing to use it .
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On July 3 , 2014 , I woke up in ICU in a medically induced coma , they had me on Dopamine and a drug they refer to as the Michael Jackson drug ,Propolonol.I had severe pneumonia . I got out yesterday at 5:30 pm . I used my Higher Powers strength and it really helped . -- Edited by...
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JFT July 18 The gift of desperation
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Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until, in desperation, we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous. Basic Text, p. 13 = When we think of being desperate, we envision an undesirable state: a poor, bedraggled soul frantically clawing at something sorely needed, a...
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The days of our lives...
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Some interesting developments around these parts lately... Though to simplify I often describe the disease that I have as being a form of MS, that's not actually accurate. Like MS, it is an chronic autoimmune muscular disorder, but after that similarity, the two are different. The disease that I...
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The difference between us and Christians
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Ok so I dont read the bible except I do get daily bible verse and I read it and try to see the message. I don't go to church, ever, not holidays or special occasions or sundays. I do TRY to practice spirituality, forgiveness, love thy neighbor, patience, tolerance, acceptance, I try not to brag, envy, i tr...
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JFT July 17 Using our "using dreams"
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Do we fully accept the fact that our every attempt to stop using or to control our using failed? Basic Text, p. 19 = The room is dark. Your forehead is bathed in cold sweat. Your heart is racing. You open your eyes, sure that you've just blown your clean time. You've had a using dream, and it was just...
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JFT July 16 Self-esteem
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Deep inside, I had feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. = Somewhere along the way, many of us developed strong feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. Deep inside was a voice that continually cried out, "You're worthless!" Many of us learn to recognize this characteristic of...
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JFT July 15 Relations with others
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We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. Step Eight = All human beings struggle with self-centeredness. The chronic self-centeredness that lies at the very core of addiction makes that struggle doubly difficult for people like us. Many of us have...
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JFT July 14 An "inside job"
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Social acceptability does not equal recovery. Basic Text, p. 22 = One of the first things that happens to many of us in recovery is that we start to look better. We get healthier; we bathe; we dress more appropriately. And without the goading of active addiction, many of us finally stop stealing,...
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JFT July 13 Humility in action
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If we are hurting, and most of us do from time to time, we learn to ask for help. Basic Text, p. 83 = Sometimes recovery gets downright difficult. It can be even more difficult to get humble enough to ask for help. We think, I have all this time clean. I should be better than this! But the reality of rec...
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JFT July 12 Patience
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We were trapped by our need for the instant gratification that drugs gave us. Basic Text, p. 25 = I want what I want, and I want it now! That's about as patient as most of us ever got in our active addiction. The obsession and compulsion of our disease gave us a one-track way of thinking; when we wanted...
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