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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Our negative sense of self has been replaced by a positive concern for others.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'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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JFT June 1 Keep coming back
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We dont have to be clean when we get here but, after the first meeting, we suggest that newcomers keep coming back and come back clean. We dont have to wait for an overdose or a jail sentence to get help from Narcotics Anonymous. Basic Text, pp. 10-11 = Very few of us arrive in NA brimming with willingne...
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JFT May Loneliness vs. being alone
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Sharing with others keeps us from feeling isolated and alone. Basic Text, p. 85 = There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Being lonely is a state of the heart, an emptiness that makes us feel sad and sometimes hopeless. Loneliness is not always alleviated when we enter into rel...
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JFT May 29 Carry me
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We believe that our Higher Power will take care of us. Basic Text, p. 58 = We all have times when it seems as though our lives are falling apart. There are days, or even weeks, when it seems that everything that can go wrong is going wrong. Whether its the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, or the...
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Yikes...I still need help!
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Wow it seems lonely here. I haven't heard from Raman and several others for months. Are we going elsewhere? I know I still need recovery....
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JFT May 28 As we understand
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We examined our lives and discovered who we really are. To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves. Basic Text, p. 36 = As using addicts, the demands of our disease determined our personality. We could be whoever or whatever we needed to be in order to get our fix. We were surviv...
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Suboxone and high blood pressure
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Hey! I'm new to this site...and new to Suboxone withdrawals, too! I've been off of them since April 19th and WAS in an inpatient rehab for three weeks. I started to realize about 3 weeks in that something was SERIOUSLY strange with my system. Asked to have my blood pressure tested. It swings between...
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JFT May 26 The power in the group
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Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us.... We can call it the group, the program, or we can call it God. Basic Text, p. 24 = Many of us have a hard time with the idea of a Higher Power until we fully accept the depth of our own powerlessness over addiction. Once we do, most of us are at least willing t...
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JFT May 27 Meeting the day's challenge
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...the decision to ask for Gods help is our greatest source of strength and courage. Basic Text, p. 26 = A challenge is anything that dares us to succeed. Things new and unfamiliar serve as challenges, whether those things appear good or bad to us. We are challenged by obstacles and opposition fro...
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MIP Site Hosting and Domain needs your support
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Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums is hosted by GoDaddy.com. Two years of web hosting cost 242.00. Our domain address (12stepforums.net) cost 33..00 for two years. Both are due for renewal at this time. Please consider helping us meet this expense by sending in a donation using the Do...
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JFT May 24 "Good" and "bad" feelings
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A lot happens in one day, both negative and positive. If we do not take time to appreciate both, perhaps we will miss something that will help us grow. IP No. 8, Just for Today = Most of us seem to unconsciously judge what happens in our lives each day as good or bad, success or failure. We tend to feel...
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JFT May 24 Risking vulnerability
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As we grow, we learn to overcome the tendency to run and hide from ourselves and our feelings. Basic Text, p. 85 = Rather than risk vulnerability, many of us have developed habits that keep others at a safe distance. These patterns of emotional isolation can give us the feeling we are hopelessly loc...
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JFT May 23 Amends and sponsors
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We want to be free of our guilt, but we dont wish to do so at the expense of anyone else. Basic Text, p. 40 = Lets face it: Most of us left trails of destruction in our wakes and harmed anyone who got in our way. Some of the people we hurt most in our addiction were the people we loved most. In an effort to pur...
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JFT May 22 Symptoms of a spiritual awakening
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The steps lead to an awakening of a spiritual nature. This awakening is evidenced by changes in our lives. Basic Text, p. 49 = We know how to recognize the disease of addiction. Its symptoms are indisputable. Besides an uncontrollable appetite for drugs, those suffering exhibit self-centere...
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JFT May 21 Keep coming back
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Meetings keep us in touch with where weve been, but more importantly, with where we could go in our recovery. Basic Text, p. 56 = In many ways, addicts are different. When we came to Narcotics Anonymous we found others like ourselves, people who understood us and whom we could understand. No longe...
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JFT May 20 Coming out of isolation
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We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing. Basic Text, p. 102 = Active addiction kept us isolated for many reasons. In the beginning, we avoided family and friends so they wouldnt find out we were using. Some of us avoided all non-addicts, fearing mora...
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JFT May 19 A growth inventory
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We review our past performance and our present behavior to see what we want to keep and what we want to discard. Basic Text, p. 29 = As each day winds to a close, many of us reflect on the past twenty-four hours and consider how we can live differently in the future. Its easy for our thoughts to remain tr...
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JFT May 18 Friends and amends--keeping it simple
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We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Step Nine = In every relationship, we dont always handle things the way we would have hoped. But friendships dont have to end when we make mistakes; instead, we can make amends. If we are sincer...
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JFT May 17 "Defects"
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We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Step Six = After taking the Fifth Step, many of us spend some time considering the exact nature of our wrongs and the part theyd played in making us who we were. What would our lives be like without, say, our arrogance? Sure, ar...
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JFT May 16 Our higher power's will
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Gods will for us becomes our own true will for ourselves. Basic Text, p. 48 = The Twelve Steps are a path to spiritual awakening. This awakening takes the form of a developing relationship with a loving Higher Power. Each succeeding step strengthens that relationship. As we continue to work the...
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JFT May 15 Fear of the Fourth Step
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As we approach this step, most of us are afraid that there is a monster inside of us that, if released, will destroy us. Basic Text, p. 27 = Most of us are terrified to look at ourselves, to probe our insides. Were afraid that if we examine our actions and motives, well find a bottomless black pit of self...
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JFT May 14 Oops!
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Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. Basic Text, p. 23 = Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guilt at the very least, with frustration and impati...
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JFT May 13 Onward on the journey
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The progression of recovery is a continuous uphill journey. Basic Text, p. 83 = The longer we stay clean, the steeper and narrower our path seems to become. But God doesnt give us more than we can handle. No matter how difficult the road becomes, no matter how narrow, how winding the turns, there i...
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JFT May 12 Living with spiritual experiences
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For meditation to be of value, the results must show in our daily lives. Basic Text, p. 47 = In working our program, we are given many indirect indications of a Higher Powers presence in our lives: the clean feeling that comes to so many of us in taking our Fifth Step; the sense that we are finally on the r...
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