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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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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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