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Dave R · Dave R

In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills. Basic Text, p. 90 = Making mountains out of molehills seems to be our specialty. Have you heard it said that to an addict, a flat tire is a traumatic event? Or how about those of us who forget all pretense o...

Dave R · Dave R

What we want most is to feel good about ourselves. Basic Text, p. 101 = Well love you until you can learn to love yourself. These words, heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerlythe day when well know how to love ourselves. Self-esteemwe all want this elusive quality as s...

Dave R · Dave R

The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we may forget that our first priority is to stay clean. Basic Text, p. 43 = Things can get really good in our recovery. Perhaps weve found our soul mate, built a rewarding career, started a family. Maybe our relationships with our family members h...

Dave R · Dave R

When a need arises for us to admit our powerlessness, we may first look for ways to exert power against it. After exhausting these ways, we begin sharing with others and find hope. Basic Text, p. 82 = Weve sometimes heard it said in our meetings that rude awakenings lead to spiritual awakenings. W...

LizC · LizC

I need to share what I have been up to the past month. I was using. Worse than ever before. Not a care in the world. Didn't care how I got the drugs, what they were, or if I died. I eventually did end up in the hospital after an overdose. Didn't know where I was, what was going on, or how I ended up there. Afte...

Dave R · Dave R

There will be times, however, when we really feel like using. We want to run, and we feel lousy. We need to be reminded of where we came from and that it will be worse this time. This is when we need the program the most. Basic Text, p. 81 = If were contemplating a relapse, we should think our using throu...

Dave R · Dave R

This program has become a part of me.... I understand more clearly the things that are happening in my life today. I no longer fight the process. Basic Text, p. 127 = In active addiction, things happened seemingly without rhyme or reason. We just did things, often without knowing why or what the...

Dave R · Dave R

[The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it. Basic Text, p. 27 = Ever had a panic attack? Everywhere we turn, lifes demands overwhelm us. Were paralyzed, and we dont know what to do about it. How do we break an anxiety attack? First, we stop....

Dave R · Dave R

Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar. Basic Text, p. 14 = Before coming to NA, few of us had much experience with success. Every attempt to stop using on our own had ended in failure. We had begun to give up hope of finding any relief from active addiction. We had grown accustomed to fa...

LizC · LizC

Hey everyone. I would like your opinions. I was recently fired from my job because I told my boss I was being sexually harassed. Thoughts?

John · John

While at a meeting last night, I put my keys, phone and cup of coffee under the seat I was sitting in. A woman sitting behind me, quietly took my keys and left the meeting. No one in the meeting thought anything of it. I went outside about half way through it, not knowing my keys had been taken... walked int...

bdpurtle · bdpurtle

are there any call in meetings? Sure would appreciate knowing how to call in if there are....thanks

Dave R · Dave R

We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that we've been doing better than we've been feeling. Basic Text, p. 43 = Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: When you wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for reflection. Lie back,...

Dave R · Dave R

Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future. Basic Text, p. 96 = When we begin coming to meetings, we hear other addicts talking about the gifts they have received as a result of this program, things we never thought of as gifts before. One such gift is the renewed abili...

Dave R · Dave R

Personality change was what we really needed. Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary. Basic Text, p. 15 = In early life, most of us were capable of joy and wonder, of giving and receiving unconditional love. When we started using, we introduced an influence into our l...

Dave R · Dave R

Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. Tradition Twelve = The Twelfth Tradition reminds us of the importance of putting principles before personalities. In recovery meetings, this might be paraphrased, don...

Dave R · Dave R

The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse. Basic Text, p. 39 = Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to consider. Our remorse was often inte...

Dave R · Dave R

It would be tragic to write [out an inventory only to] shove it in a drawer. These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure. Basic Text, p. 32 = How many times have we heard it said that we are only as sick as our secrets? While many members choose not to use meetings to share the intimate...

LizC · LizC

This week is going to be a rough one for me and my entire hometown. On Thursday it will be the 2yr anniversary of the school shooting that took 3 lives and injured 3 more. Our town is small. Everyone knows everyone and it's the happiest place on earth to many. Please support us by wearing red and black on Thu...

oniongirl82 · oniongirl82

Due to some life on life's terms stuff I may be moving woth my husband to a country (Albania) that to my knowledge does not have any presence of NA yet. I am wondering if anyone has EXPERIENCE on living somewhere without the fellowship but remaining in recovery. I have always worked my program by sponsor...

Dave R · Dave R

Self-pity is one of the most destructive of defects; it will drain us of all positive energy. Basic Text, p. 80 = In active addiction, many of us used self-pity as a survival mechanism. We didnt believe there was an alternative to living in our diseaseor perhaps we didnt want to believe. As long as w...

Dave R · Dave R

Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems. Basic Text, p. 13 = When we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, we give away all of our personal power. We need to remember that we are powerless over our addiction, not our personal b...

Dave R · Dave R

We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step Ten = In Narcotics Anonymous, weve found that the more we live in harmony with our Higher Powers will for us, the greater the harmony in our lives. We use the Tenth Step to help us maintain that harmony. On a dai...

Stillfromny · Stillfromny

Here I go again. Detoxing for the 100th time. I feel like such a failure. I've wasted so much money on opiates, I do have pain and get a legit script each month but I always run out early. Anyway, I'm scared...my husband has no clue. One time he said I looked like I was on drugs and I lied and told him I took a klo...

mikah · mikah

....hello,,I'm Michael,,I'm an addict,,,,relieved to have finally accepted narcotics anonymous as an important part of my life,and happy to be clean today. ....as I've been getting clear of the chaos of active drug addiction from my life,,,I realized a couple of weeks ago,that I was involved in a...

Dave R · Dave R

Relapse is never an accident. Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program. Basic Text, p. 79 = A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and-such happens, we will surely relapse. What event do we expect will b...

John · John

I have a little pressure washing and painting business. I enjoy making things appear new again, refreshing them. And I'm good at it. It's how I make a living. This winter has been rough. Winters always are in this kind of business, but this year seems to be the slowest I have ever seen. I haven't ha...

BigV · BigV

I wish all a blessed day in recovery, remember this is truly your most important thing you will do this day, stay clean , reach out in prayer and meditation to a higher power and admit your weakness, find power and strength to get past the demon of addiction and be saved this day, one day at a time . I have man...

Angee · Angee

It has been one of those days. I have been thinking of wrongs done to me in the past, and for some reason it is really getting to me. I thought I had left the grudges behind, I am happy in my recovery. I think maybe I am just tired of reminders of where I was in the past. I thought I could live with minor irri...

Dave R · Dave R

When we refuse to accept the reality of today, we are denying faith in our Higher Power. This can only bring more suffering. IP No. 8, Just for Today = Some days just arent the way we wish they would be. Our problems may be as simple as a broken shoelace or having to stand in line at the supermarket. O...

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	JFT March 9 Small things (Preview) In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills. Basic Text, p. 90 = Making mountains out of molehills seems to be our specialty. Have you heard it said that to an addict, a flat tire is a traumatic event? Or how about those of us who forget all pretense o...	Dave R	0	271	Mar 9, 2014 by Dave R
	JFT March 8 Learning to love ourselves (Preview) What we want most is to feel good about ourselves. Basic Text, p. 101 = Well love you until you can learn to love yourself. These words, heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerlythe day when well know how to love ourselves. Self-esteemwe all want this elusive quality as s...	Dave R	0	304	Mar 8, 2014 by Dave R
	JFT March 7 Priorities (Preview) The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we may forget that our first priority is to stay clean. Basic Text, p. 43 = Things can get really good in our recovery. Perhaps weve found our soul mate, built a rewarding career, started a family. Maybe our relationships with our family members h...	Dave R	1	322	Mar 7, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	JFT March 5 From rude awakening to spiritual awakening (Preview) When a need arises for us to admit our powerlessness, we may first look for ways to exert power against it. After exhausting these ways, we begin sharing with others and find hope. Basic Text, p. 82 = Weve sometimes heard it said in our meetings that rude awakenings lead to spiritual awakenings. W...	Dave R	2	398	Mar 7, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	What's going on (Preview) I need to share what I have been up to the past month. I was using. Worse than ever before. Not a care in the world. Didn't care how I got the drugs, what they were, or if I died. I eventually did end up in the hospital after an overdose. Didn't know where I was, what was going on, or how I ended up there. Afte...	LizC	6	437	Mar 5, 2014 by avid
	JFT March 3 Relapse (Preview) There will be times, however, when we really feel like using. We want to run, and we feel lousy. We need to be reminded of where we came from and that it will be worse this time. This is when we need the program the most. Basic Text, p. 81 = If were contemplating a relapse, we should think our using throu...	Dave R	2	408	Mar 4, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	JFT March 4 The process (Preview) This program has become a part of me.... I understand more clearly the things that are happening in my life today. I no longer fight the process. Basic Text, p. 127 = In active addiction, things happened seemingly without rhyme or reason. We just did things, often without knowing why or what the...	Dave R	1	558	Mar 4, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	JFT March 1 Anxiety attack! (Preview) [The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it. Basic Text, p. 27 = Ever had a panic attack? Everywhere we turn, lifes demands overwhelm us. Were paralyzed, and we dont know what to do about it. How do we break an anxiety attack? First, we stop....	Dave R	3	539	Mar 2, 2014 by mikah
	JFT March 2 Success (Preview) Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar. Basic Text, p. 14 = Before coming to NA, few of us had much experience with success. Every attempt to stop using on our own had ended in failure. We had begun to give up hope of finding any relief from active addiction. We had grown accustomed to fa...	Dave R	1	312	Mar 2, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	Ugh (Preview) Hey everyone. I would like your opinions. I was recently fired from my job because I told my boss I was being sexually harassed. Thoughts?	LizC	12	491	Mar 2, 2014 by BigV
	My car stolen in a Meeting!! (closed) (Preview) While at a meeting last night, I put my keys, phone and cup of coffee under the seat I was sitting in. A woman sitting behind me, quietly took my keys and left the meeting. No one in the meeting thought anything of it. I went outside about half way through it, not knowing my keys had been taken... walked int...	John	13	570	Mar 2, 2014 by BigV
	na phone meetings (Preview) are there any call in meetings? Sure would appreciate knowing how to call in if there are....thanks	bdpurtle	9	4901	Mar 1, 2014 by Brian_YellowEyes
	JFT February 27 "Pure" motives (Preview) We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that we've been doing better than we've been feeling. Basic Text, p. 43 = Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: When you wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for reflection. Lie back,...	Dave R	3	3446	Feb 28, 2014 by Mike M
	JFT FEbruary 28 The greatest gift (Preview) Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future. Basic Text, p. 96 = When we begin coming to meetings, we hear other addicts talking about the gifts they have received as a result of this program, things we never thought of as gifts before. One such gift is the renewed abili...	Dave R	1	345	Feb 28, 2014 by Mike M
	JFT FEbruary 24 A new influence (Preview) Personality change was what we really needed. Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary. Basic Text, p. 15 = In early life, most of us were capable of joy and wonder, of giving and receiving unconditional love. When we started using, we introduced an influence into our l...	Dave R	2	481	Feb 26, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	JFT February 23 Messages and messengers (Preview) Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. Tradition Twelve = The Twelfth Tradition reminds us of the importance of putting principles before personalities. In recovery meetings, this might be paraphrased, don...	Dave R	1	381	Feb 26, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	JFT February 26 Remorse (Preview) The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse. Basic Text, p. 39 = Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to consider. Our remorse was often inte...	Dave R	1	371	Feb 26, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	JFT February 25 Sick as our secrets (Preview) It would be tragic to write [out an inventory only to] shove it in a drawer. These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure. Basic Text, p. 32 = How many times have we heard it said that we are only as sick as our secrets? While many members choose not to use meetings to share the intimate...	Dave R	1	334	Feb 26, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	This week (Preview) This week is going to be a rough one for me and my entire hometown. On Thursday it will be the 2yr anniversary of the school shooting that took 3 lives and injured 3 more. Our town is small. Everyone knows everyone and it's the happiest place on earth to many. Please support us by wearing red and black on Thu...	LizC	3	395	Feb 25, 2014 by kitty doyle
	Recovering without NA meetings to turn to. (Preview) Due to some life on life's terms stuff I may be moving woth my husband to a country (Albania) that to my knowledge does not have any presence of NA yet. I am wondering if anyone has EXPERIENCE on living somewhere without the fellowship but remaining in recovery. I have always worked my program by sponsor...	oniongirl82	34	2139	Feb 25, 2014 by dave_uk
	JFT February 21 Self-pity or recovery--it's our choice (Preview) Self-pity is one of the most destructive of defects; it will drain us of all positive energy. Basic Text, p. 80 = In active addiction, many of us used self-pity as a survival mechanism. We didnt believe there was an alternative to living in our diseaseor perhaps we didnt want to believe. As long as w...	Dave R	1	448	Feb 22, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	JFT February 20 Powerlessness and personal responsibility (Preview) Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems. Basic Text, p. 13 = When we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, we give away all of our personal power. We need to remember that we are powerless over our addiction, not our personal b...	Dave R	2	1159	Feb 22, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	JFT February 22 God's will, or mine? (Preview) We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step Ten = In Narcotics Anonymous, weve found that the more we live in harmony with our Higher Powers will for us, the greater the harmony in our lives. We use the Tenth Step to help us maintain that harmony. On a dai...	Dave R	1	316	Feb 22, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	Day -4- of no opiates!... (Preview) Here I go again. Detoxing for the 100th time. I feel like such a failure. I've wasted so much money on opiates, I do have pain and get a legit script each month but I always run out early. Anyway, I'm scared...my husband has no clue. One time he said I looked like I was on drugs and I lied and told him I took a klo...	Stillfromny	5	679	Feb 22, 2014 by mikah
	...powerless over -CHAOS-.......... (Preview) ....hello,,I'm Michael,,I'm an addict,,,,relieved to have finally accepted narcotics anonymous as an important part of my life,and happy to be clean today. ....as I've been getting clear of the chaos of active drug addiction from my life,,,I realized a couple of weeks ago,that I was involved in a...	mikah	6	398	Feb 20, 2014 by mikah
	JFT February 19 Reservations (Preview) Relapse is never an accident. Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program. Basic Text, p. 79 = A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and-such happens, we will surely relapse. What event do we expect will b...	Dave R	2	424	Feb 19, 2014 by cdbuckberry
	Work is extremely slow this year! (Preview) I have a little pressure washing and painting business. I enjoy making things appear new again, refreshing them. And I'm good at it. It's how I make a living. This winter has been rough. Winters always are in this kind of business, but this year seems to be the slowest I have ever seen. I haven't ha...	John	7	574	Feb 19, 2014 by mikah
	power up with prayer (Preview) I wish all a blessed day in recovery, remember this is truly your most important thing you will do this day, stay clean , reach out in prayer and meditation to a higher power and admit your weakness, find power and strength to get past the demon of addiction and be saved this day, one day at a time . I have man...	BigV	2	440	Feb 18, 2014 by BigV
	Old Hurts Resurface (Preview) It has been one of those days. I have been thinking of wrongs done to me in the past, and for some reason it is really getting to me. I thought I had left the grudges behind, I am happy in my recovery. I think maybe I am just tired of reminders of where I was in the past. I thought I could live with minor irri...	Angee	8	494	Feb 17, 2014 by mikah
	JFT February 16 Faithful feelings (Preview) When we refuse to accept the reality of today, we are denying faith in our Higher Power. This can only bring more suffering. IP No. 8, Just for Today = Some days just arent the way we wish they would be. Our problems may be as simple as a broken shoelace or having to stand in line at the supermarket. O...	Dave R	1	355	Feb 17, 2014 by cdbuckberry
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