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JFT September 14 Secrets are reservations
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Eventually we are shown that we must get honest, or we will use again. Basic Text, p. 85 = Everyone has secrets, right? Some of us have little secrets, items that would cause only minor embarrassment if found out. Some of us have big secrets, whole areas of our lives cloaked in thick, murky darknes...
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JFT September 15 Filling the emptiness
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...we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, well be satisfied and everything will be alright. Basic Text, p. 80 = In our addiction, we could never get enough drugs, or money, or sex, or anything else. Even too much was never enough! There was a spiritual emptiness in...
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Shout out to Liz
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JFT September 13 Something different
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We had to have something different, and we thought we had found it in drugs. Basic Text, p. 13 = Many of us have always felt different from other people. We know were not unique in feeling that way; we hear many addicts share the same thing. We searched all our lives for something to make us all right,...
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JFT September 12 New horizons
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My life is well-rounded and I am becoming a more comfortable version of myself, not the neurotic, boring person that I thought Id be without drugs. = Is there really life without drugs? Newcomers are sure that they are destined to lead a humdrum existence once they quit using. That fear is far fro...
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Amends after 12 years... "I am an addict"...
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http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/09/10/dnt-thief-returns-money-12-years-later.wtvf.html
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JFT September 11 Bend with the wind
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We learn to become flexible... As new things are revealed, we feel renewed. Basic Text, p. 102 = Flexibility was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. Wed become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the softer, subtler, more infinitely varied pleasures o...
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help
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I have had the same sponsor for 2 years now. I have found lately that she is just not working for me. She has a lot of obligations in her life and I have difficulty getting in touch with her. I realize she has a life, but sometimes its days before she will return my call, if she does. I would like someone who is a...
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when we know better we do better.
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You did what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better. Maya Angelou
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JFT September 5 Not hopelessly bad
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We find that we suffer from a disease, not a moral dilemma. We were critically ill, not hopelessly bad. Basic Text, p. 16 = For many of us, Narcotics Anonymous was the answer to a personal puzzle of long standing. Why did we always feel alone, even in a crowd, we wondered? Why did we do so many crazy,...
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JFT September 10 More powerful than words
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We learn that a simple, loving hug can make all the difference in the world... Basic Text, p. 91 = Perhaps there have been times in our recovery when we were close to someone who was in great pain. We struggled with the question, What can I do to make them feel better? We felt anxious and inadequate to r...
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JFT September 9 Feet of clay
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One of the biggest stumbling blocks to recovery seems to be placing unrealistic expectations on... others. Basic Text, p. 82 = Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. By comparison, the recovering addicts we meet at meetings may seem almost super-huma...
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An addict forced to go to AA. HELP
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I live in a small town in TN where we only have two NA meetings yet 13 AA meetings. I have been to 3 or 4 AA meetings and everyone seemed to be fine with me declaring myself as an addict. Tonight however a 69 year old fart asked to speak to me. He started drilling me about it was an AA not an NA meeting. I feel t...
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JFT September 4 Cluttered spirits
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We try to remember that when we make amends we are doing it for ourselves. Basic Text, p. 41 = As long as we still owe amends, our spirits are cluttered with things we dont need. Were carrying the extra load of an apology owed, a resentment held, or unexpressed remorse. Its like having a messy house. ...
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JFT September 6 Regular meeting attendance
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We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean. Basic Text, p. 9 = The NA program gives us a new pattern of living. One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance. For the newcomer, living clean is a brand-new ex...
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JFT September 8 Rebellion
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We need not lose faith when we become rebellious. Basic Text, p. 35 = Many of us have lived our entire lives in revolt. Our initial response to any type of direction is often negative. Automatic rejection of authority seems to be a troubling character defect for many addicts. A thorough self-exam...
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see ya later alligator
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How's everyone doing? I'm slipping and falling fast hoping to never wake again.
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Happy World Unity Day !!!
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In Bangalore, India area, about 100 of us gathered for sharing, dinner and a telephone hook up with World Convention, Philly main share and regional countdown. It is also our local area annivrrsary (21) and we celebrated that too. We were Blessed with 7 newcomers too !!! What did you guys do ?
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The illusion of happiness
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I was under the spell of amphetamines for several years. It took chest pains to snap me out of it. You see, your nervous system is the result of billions of years of evolution, from the Big Bang up until today. Your neurotransmitters operate on the principal that an electrochemical signal gets sent fr...
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JFT September 7 Resentment and forgiveness
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Where there has been wrong, the program teaches us the spirit of forgiveness. Basic Text, p. 12 = In NA, we begin to interact with the world around us. We no longer live in isolation. But freedom from isolation has its price: The more we interact with people, the more often well find someone steppi...
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Withdrawal/detox
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I need some help and strength to get through this as it is basically where I am right now. I had surgery last wednesday for my endometriosis (which causes me severe pain and is the reason I have an issue with prescription drugs) and I took my last pill this morning. The pain is not so bad but because I have...
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JFT September 3 Humility expressed by anonymity
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Humility is a by-product that allows us to grow and develop in an atmosphere of freedom and removes the fear of becoming known by our employers, families, or friends as addicts. Basic Text, pp. 75-76 = Many of us may not have understood the idea that anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our tr...
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New Meeting in Rural Illinois. Need help motivating people to want to work steps!
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I have started 2 new meetings in rural Illinois. These meetings are not very big. Usually 5 - 10 people show up. Out of the people that show up. I'm the only one that has a sponsor and is working steps. It's very cut and dry in "How it Works" ... If you want what we have to offer; and are willing to ma...
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JFT September 2 Higher powered
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Daily practice of our Twelve Step program enables us to change from what we were to people guided by a Higher Power. Basic Text, p. 86 = Who have we been, and who have we become? There are a couple of ways to answer this question. One is very simple: We came to Narcotics Anonymous as addicts, our addic...
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JFT September 1 Real values
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We become able to make wise and loving decisions based on principles and ideals that have real value in our lives. Basic Text, p. 105 = Addiction gave us a certain set of values, principles we applied in our lives. You pushed me, one of those values told us, so I pushed back, hard. Its minewas another...
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Just dropping a line to day hello
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19 years clean of active addiction yesterday and as always I am so thankful and blessed to do so!
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WORLD?
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Is anyone going to World in Philly?? If so I'm jealous...and...have a blast!! !!
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JFT August 31 Gratitude
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Hopeless living problems have become joyously changed. Our disease has been arrested, and now anything is possible. Basic Text, p. 106 = The NA program has given us more freedom than we ever dreamed possible. Sometimes, though, in the daily routine, we lose track of how much weve been given. Ho...
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JFT August 30 Doing good, feeling good
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We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that weve been doing better than weve been feeling. Basic Text, p.43 = The way we treat others often reveals our own state of being. When we are at peace, were most likely to treat others with respect and compassion. However, when were...
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JFT August 29 Don't look back
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The steps offer a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse. Our futures are changed because we dont have to avoid those who we have harmed. As a result... we receive a new freedom that can end isolation. Basic Text, p. 39 = Many of us come to Narcotics Anonymous full of regrets about our...
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