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Dave R · Dave R

In living the steps, we begin to let go of our self-obsession. Basic Text, p. 97 = Many of us came to the program convinced that our feelings, our wants, and our needs were of the utmost importance to everyone. We had practiced a lifetime of self-seeking, self-centered behavior and believed it was...

LizC · LizC

What's going my peeps. I am feelingggggg good tonight. What's going on tonight?

Missyn86 · Missyn86

I am currently on suboxone. Before my addiction I had severe anxiety and was medicated for it. I have been working with my recovery clinic and they have found a way for me to see a doctor separately to address these matters. My issue is that what I am on doesn't seem like it's enough. I know as a drug addict w...

Dave R · Dave R

Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases. Basic Text, p. 84 = Recognizing complacency in our recovery is like seeing smoke in a room. The smoke thickens when our meeting attendance drops, contact with newcom...

Dave R · Dave R

Everything that occurs in the course of NA service must be motivated by the desire to more successfully carry the message of recovery to the addict who still suffers. Basic Text, p. xxvi = Our motives are often a surprise to us. In our early days of recovery, they were almost always a surprise! Wev...

Dave R · Dave R

There is a spiritual principle of giving away what we have been given in Narcotics Anonymous in order to keep it. By helping others to stay clean, we enjoy the benefit of the spiritual wealth that we have found. Basic Text, p. 49 = Time and again in our recovery, others have freely shared with us what...

Dave R · Dave R

Addiction is a physical, mental, and spiritual disease that affects every area of our lives. Basic Text, p. 20 = Before we started using, most of us had a stereotype, a mental image of what addicts were supposed to look like. Some of us pictured a junkie robbing convenience markets for drug money....

Dave R · Dave R

There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using. Basic Text, p. 9 = We all know people who could benefit from Narcotics Anonymous. Many people we encounter from all walks of lifeour family members, old friends, and coworkerscould really use a program of recovery in their l...

Dave R · Dave R

When we see how our defects exist in our lives and accept them, we can let go of them and get on with our new life. Basic Text, p. 35 = Sometimes our readiness to have our character defects removed depends on what we call them. If misnaming our defects makes them seem less defective, we may be unable to s...

LizC · LizC

A couple weekends ago I went to Chicago with my best friend. We were downtown site seeing and all of a sudden out of the blue I could feel my legs collapsing underneath me. My vision was completely gone I couldn't see and I couldn't hear. I blacked out in the middle of downtown Chicago in the 10 degree weath...

MIKEF · MIKEF

On this day, 1984, after more than 25 years of devastation ,heartache and pain,I lifted my head from the floor of a farmhouse I had been staying at and admitted total defeat. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I chose to do whatever it took to find daily recovery...With the God of my understanding,...

Mike M · Mike M

Oops forgot to post! Thanksgiving Eve 11/27 marked 33 years Clean. Just another One Day at a Time in the Life of this Recovering addict.

Dave R · Dave R

By working the steps, we come to accept a Higher Powers will.... We lose our fear of the unknown. We are set free. Basic Text, p. 16 = Life is a series of changes, both large and small. Although we may know and accept this fact intellectually, chances are that our initial emotional reaction to chan...

Dave R · Dave R

No one is forcing us to give up our misery. Basic Text, p. 29 = Its funny to remember how reluctant we once were to surrender to recovery. We seemed to think we had wonderful, fulfilling lives as using addicts and that giving up our drugs would be worse than serving a life sentence at hard labor. In re...

Dave R · Dave R

I started to imitate some of the things the winners were doing. I got caught up in NA. I felt good... Basic Text, p. 153 = We often hear it said in meetings that we should stick with the winners. Who are the winners in Narcotics Anonymous? Winners are easily identified. They work an active progra...

Dave R · Dave R

This ability to listen is a gift and grows as we grow spiritually. Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift. Basic Text, p. 107 = Have you ever watched two small children carry on a conversation? One will be talking about purple dragons while the other carries on about the discom...

amanda56258 · amanda56258

Haven't been on in a while... Life has definitely taken some twists and turns, and many of them were self-imposed. I left my husband for a friend in recovery who's been there since my first meeting. I'll be the first one to admit that it wasn't spiritual in the least. In fact, it was pretty addictive...

Dave R · Dave R

Relationships can be a terribly painful area. Basic Text, p. 82 = Love is like an elixir for some of us. The excitement of a new lover, the intrigue of exploring intimacy, the sense of release we get from allowing ourselves to become vulnerablethese are all powerful emotions. But we cant forget th...

Dave R · Dave R

We use the tools available to us and develop the ability to survive our emotions. Basic Text, p. 31 = Survive my emotions? some of us say. Youve got to be kidding! When we were using, we never gave ourselves the chance to learn how to survive them. You dont survive your feelings, we thoughtyou drug...

John · John

Dave R · Dave R

We have seen the program work for any addict who honestly and sincerely wants to stop [using drugs]. Basic Text, p. 10 = How do we know when someone honestly and sincerely wants to stop using drugs? The truth is that we dont know! Because we cannot read minds or know anothers motives and desires, we...

shjcross · shjcross

I have nearly 10 months free from active addiction. I'm frustrated that as soon as I know drugs maybe around me, my crazy head starts telling me: To search for evidence of them. This is the situation, I live on a property with my son and his wife. She went to the Dr. yesterday for migraine that she's ha...

flametodance · flametodance

Hi everyone. I need some guidance in an issue my home group is having and would love to get some experience on it. One of the members has been making food for people who attend the meeting and people who just show. She has considered this service work and enjoys doing thus(no monies for this have come out o...

Dave R · Dave R

We know that if we pray for Gods will we will receive what is best for us, regardless of what we think. Basic Text, p. 46 = By the time we came to NA, our inner voices had become unreliable and self-destructive. Addiction had warped our desires, our interests, our sense of what was best for ourselves. ...

Dave R · Dave R

Perhaps for the first time, we see a vision of our new life. Basic Text, p. 35 = In our addiction, our vision of ourselves was very limited. Each day, we went through the same routine: getting, using, and finding ways and means to get more. And thats all we could reasonably expect for the duration of o...

Dave R · Dave R

We believe that our Higher Power will take care of us. Basic Text, p. 58 = Our program is based on the idea that the application of simple principles can produce profound effects in our lives. One such principle is that, if we ask, our Higher Power will care for us. Because this principle is so basic...

Dave R · Dave R

Sharing with others keeps us from feeling isolated and alone. Basic Text, p. 85 = Intimacy is the sharing of our innermost thoughts and feelings with another human being. Many of us long for the warmth and companionship intimacy brings, but those things dont come without effort. In our addictio...

Dave R · Dave R

We begin to pray only for Gods will for us. That way, we get only what we are capable of handling. Basic Text, p. 49 = Imagine what might happen if God gave us everything we wanted. A fabulous new car, straight As, a triple salary raiseall ours without effort, just for the asking. Now imagine the probl...

Dave R · Dave R

We have to keep our recovery first and our priorities in order. Basic Text, p. 82 = Before coming to NA, we used many excuses to justify our use of drugs: He yelled at me. She said this. My partner left. I got fired. We used these same excuses for not seeking help for our drug problem. We had to reali...

ScarredButSurviving · ScarredButSurviving

I am so excited and happy I am going to start writing on my NA Step Working Guide I am on Step 1. I am so excited to begin my Recovery. I will have 30 days clean tomorrow but have 60 days in the program. Wish me luck, I need all the luck I can get. Have a good day. RSB

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	JFT December 20 Overcoming self-obsession (Preview) In living the steps, we begin to let go of our self-obsession. Basic Text, p. 97 = Many of us came to the program convinced that our feelings, our wants, and our needs were of the utmost importance to everyone. We had practiced a lifetime of self-seeking, self-centered behavior and believed it was...	Dave R	0	250	Dec 20, 2013 by Dave R
	heyo (Preview) What's going my peeps. I am feelingggggg good tonight. What's going on tonight?	LizC	2	297	Dec 19, 2013 by Dave R
	Anxiety and addiction help (Preview) I am currently on suboxone. Before my addiction I had severe anxiety and was medicated for it. I have been working with my recovery clinic and they have found a way for me to see a doctor separately to address these matters. My issue is that what I am on doesn't seem like it's enough. I know as a drug addict w...	Missyn86	7	489	Dec 18, 2013 by avid
	JFT December 16 Where there's smoke (Preview) Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases. Basic Text, p. 84 = Recognizing complacency in our recovery is like seeing smoke in a room. The smoke thickens when our meeting attendance drops, contact with newcom...	Dave R	3	329	Dec 18, 2013 by MIKEF
	JFT December 17 Services motives (Preview) Everything that occurs in the course of NA service must be motivated by the desire to more successfully carry the message of recovery to the addict who still suffers. Basic Text, p. xxvi = Our motives are often a surprise to us. In our early days of recovery, they were almost always a surprise! Wev...	Dave R	1	327	Dec 17, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT December 15 The joy of sharing (Preview) There is a spiritual principle of giving away what we have been given in Narcotics Anonymous in order to keep it. By helping others to stay clean, we enjoy the benefit of the spiritual wealth that we have found. Basic Text, p. 49 = Time and again in our recovery, others have freely shared with us what...	Dave R	1	308	Dec 17, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT December 14 Addiction, drugs, and recovery (Preview) Addiction is a physical, mental, and spiritual disease that affects every area of our lives. Basic Text, p. 20 = Before we started using, most of us had a stereotype, a mental image of what addicts were supposed to look like. Some of us pictured a junkie robbing convenience markets for drug money....	Dave R	1	303	Dec 17, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT December 13 Membership (Preview) There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using. Basic Text, p. 9 = We all know people who could benefit from Narcotics Anonymous. Many people we encounter from all walks of lifeour family members, old friends, and coworkerscould really use a program of recovery in their l...	Dave R	1	315	Dec 17, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT December 8 Calling a defect a defect (Preview) When we see how our defects exist in our lives and accept them, we can let go of them and get on with our new life. Basic Text, p. 35 = Sometimes our readiness to have our character defects removed depends on what we call them. If misnaming our defects makes them seem less defective, we may be unable to s...	Dave R	2	441	Dec 15, 2013 by kitty doyle
	i got some news. (Preview) A couple weekends ago I went to Chicago with my best friend. We were downtown site seeing and all of a sudden out of the blue I could feel my legs collapsing underneath me. My vision was completely gone I couldn't see and I couldn't hear. I blacked out in the middle of downtown Chicago in the 10 degree weath...	LizC	15	678	Dec 15, 2013 by kitty doyle
	Freedom from active drug addiction (Preview) On this day, 1984, after more than 25 years of devastation ,heartache and pain,I lifted my head from the floor of a farmhouse I had been staying at and admitted total defeat. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I chose to do whatever it took to find daily recovery...With the God of my understanding,...	MIKEF	7	421	Dec 14, 2013 by flametodance
	Another year Clean by the Grace of my Higher Power whom I choose to call God by the Power of NA (Preview) Oops forgot to post! Thanksgiving Eve 11/27 marked 33 years Clean. Just another One Day at a Time in the Life of this Recovering addict.	Mike M	8	537	Dec 14, 2013 by flametodance
	JFT December 12 Fear of change (Preview) By working the steps, we come to accept a Higher Powers will.... We lose our fear of the unknown. We are set free. Basic Text, p. 16 = Life is a series of changes, both large and small. Although we may know and accept this fact intellectually, chances are that our initial emotional reaction to chan...	Dave R	1	281	Dec 12, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT December 11 Misery is optiona (Preview) No one is forcing us to give up our misery. Basic Text, p. 29 = Its funny to remember how reluctant we once were to surrender to recovery. We seemed to think we had wonderful, fulfilling lives as using addicts and that giving up our drugs would be worse than serving a life sentence at hard labor. In re...	Dave R	1	276	Dec 11, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT December 10 Winners (Preview) I started to imitate some of the things the winners were doing. I got caught up in NA. I felt good... Basic Text, p. 153 = We often hear it said in meetings that we should stick with the winners. Who are the winners in Narcotics Anonymous? Winners are easily identified. They work an active progra...	Dave R	1	315	Dec 11, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT December 9 Listening (Preview) This ability to listen is a gift and grows as we grow spiritually. Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift. Basic Text, p. 107 = Have you ever watched two small children carry on a conversation? One will be talking about purple dragons while the other carries on about the discom...	Dave R	0	297	Dec 9, 2013 by Dave R
	Still Doin the Thing... (Preview) Haven't been on in a while... Life has definitely taken some twists and turns, and many of them were self-imposed. I left my husband for a friend in recovery who's been there since my first meeting. I'll be the first one to admit that it wasn't spiritual in the least. In fact, it was pretty addictive...	amanda56258	12	745	Dec 9, 2013 by amanda56258
	JFT December 6 Romance and recovery (Preview) Relationships can be a terribly painful area. Basic Text, p. 82 = Love is like an elixir for some of us. The excitement of a new lover, the intrigue of exploring intimacy, the sense of release we get from allowing ourselves to become vulnerablethese are all powerful emotions. But we cant forget th...	Dave R	1	465	Dec 7, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT December 7 Surviving our emotions (Preview) We use the tools available to us and develop the ability to survive our emotions. Basic Text, p. 31 = Survive my emotions? some of us say. Youve got to be kidding! When we were using, we never gave ourselves the chance to learn how to survive them. You dont survive your feelings, we thoughtyou drug...	Dave R	1	304	Dec 7, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	True Entertainment with a great message! (Preview)	John	1	282	Dec 7, 2013 by emilypadilla
	JFT December 5 Those who want to recover (Preview) We have seen the program work for any addict who honestly and sincerely wants to stop [using drugs]. Basic Text, p. 10 = How do we know when someone honestly and sincerely wants to stop using drugs? The truth is that we dont know! Because we cannot read minds or know anothers motives and desires, we...	Dave R	0	281	Dec 5, 2013 by Dave R
	The crazy in my head (Preview) I have nearly 10 months free from active addiction. I'm frustrated that as soon as I know drugs maybe around me, my crazy head starts telling me: To search for evidence of them. This is the situation, I live on a property with my son and his wife. She went to the Dr. yesterday for migraine that she's ha...	shjcross	9	482	Dec 4, 2013 by flametodance
	Guidance on traditions. (Preview) Hi everyone. I need some guidance in an issue my home group is having and would love to get some experience on it. One of the members has been making food for people who attend the meeting and people who just show. She has considered this service work and enjoys doing thus(no monies for this have come out o...	flametodance	3	498	Dec 4, 2013 by flametodance
	JFT December 4 God's will, not ours (Preview) We know that if we pray for Gods will we will receive what is best for us, regardless of what we think. Basic Text, p. 46 = By the time we came to NA, our inner voices had become unreliable and self-destructive. Addiction had warped our desires, our interests, our sense of what was best for ourselves. ...	Dave R	0	256	Dec 4, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT December 3 Vision without limits (Preview) Perhaps for the first time, we see a vision of our new life. Basic Text, p. 35 = In our addiction, our vision of ourselves was very limited. Each day, we went through the same routine: getting, using, and finding ways and means to get more. And thats all we could reasonably expect for the duration of o...	Dave R	0	418	Dec 3, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 29 Our Higher Power's care (Preview) We believe that our Higher Power will take care of us. Basic Text, p. 58 = Our program is based on the idea that the application of simple principles can produce profound effects in our lives. One such principle is that, if we ask, our Higher Power will care for us. Because this principle is so basic...	Dave R	1	295	Dec 2, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT November 30 Sharing the real me (Preview) Sharing with others keeps us from feeling isolated and alone. Basic Text, p. 85 = Intimacy is the sharing of our innermost thoughts and feelings with another human being. Many of us long for the warmth and companionship intimacy brings, but those things dont come without effort. In our addictio...	Dave R	1	259	Dec 2, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT December 1 Life's rewards (Preview) We begin to pray only for Gods will for us. That way, we get only what we are capable of handling. Basic Text, p. 49 = Imagine what might happen if God gave us everything we wanted. A fabulous new car, straight As, a triple salary raiseall ours without effort, just for the asking. Now imagine the probl...	Dave R	1	303	Dec 2, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT December 2 Recovery: our first priority (Preview) We have to keep our recovery first and our priorities in order. Basic Text, p. 82 = Before coming to NA, we used many excuses to justify our use of drugs: He yelled at me. She said this. My partner left. I got fired. We used these same excuses for not seeking help for our drug problem. We had to reali...	Dave R	1	277	Dec 2, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	I start doing step work today (Preview) I am so excited and happy I am going to start writing on my NA Step Working Guide I am on Step 1. I am so excited to begin my Recovery. I will have 30 days clean tomorrow but have 60 days in the program. Wish me luck, I need all the luck I can get. Have a good day. RSB	ScarredButSurviving	5	436	Nov 28, 2013 by cdbuckberry
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