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JFT September 30 Being ourselves
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Our real value is in being ourselves. Basic Text, p. 105 = Over and over, we have tried to live up to the expectations of those around us. We may have been raised believing that we were okay if we earned good grades in school, cleaned our rooms, or dressed a certain way. Always wanting to belong and be...
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JFT September 28 Hope
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Gradually, as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope. Basic Text, p. 95 = As using addicts, despair was our relentless companion. It colored our every waking moment. Despair was born of our experience in active addiction: No matter what measures we tried to m...
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JFT September 27 Right back up
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There is something in our self-destructive personalities that cries for failure. Basic Text, p. 80 = Poor me; woe is me; look at me, my life is such a mess! Ive fallen, and no matter how hard I try, I continue to fail. Many of us came to NA singing this sad refrain. Life isnt like that anymore. True, so...
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JFT September 26 Seeing ourselves in others
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It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another. Basic Text, p. 38 = How easy it is to point out the faults of others! Theres a reason for this: The defects we identify most easily in others are often the defects we are most familiar with in our own characters. We may notice our best fri...
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JFT September 25 The Fourth Step--fearing our feelings
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We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic. Basic Text, p. 30 = A common complaint about the Fourth Step is that it makes us painfully conscious of our defects of character. We may be tempted to falter in our program of recovery. T...
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Husband of Addict New in Recovery....Advice please.
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Hello all, I have posted in a couple places but thought it is best to get advice directly from those in my wife's shoes. Starting beginning of 2012 my wife and I had problems. She claimed she wasnt happy and didn't know what to do. that she was not in love with me anymore and wanted me to move out. In jul...
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Just sharing a piece of the MIP story and me speaking at a AA convention.
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Continued 9TH STEP work
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Hello and blessings of this day! I wanted to share this with my support group here at MIP(I seek my Higher Powers will and knowledge daily to the best of my effort) .Today is my 47 year old daughters birthday.Michelle and her brother Michael(46) from my 1st of 3 marriages and divorces .Both live in Tejas...
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Curiosity on "rock bottom"
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Hello all: I am new here and was just curious as to the term "rock bottom". Many addicts that I know say that you have to hit rock bottom in order to even attempt to see the addiction that has taken over. But what if you don't have a rock bottom, as my addict claims. I understand that this is differ...
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As new as it gets
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Hi everyone I'm extremely new to all this. I have 39 days in 33 of which was spent in a rehab in Philadelphia. I don't know how all this message board stuff works that's for sure but I'm sure I'll figure it out. Most of the reason I signed on to this is because there are no NA meetings where I live so I'm going to...
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God always in the house
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So tonight my daughter from Tejas calls and we have a long talk and discuss a lot of things..She tells me she is not holding resentments,once again rehashes some of the "good" times we had when she was a kid before they left town and an honest sharing of our feelings both coming from a place of...
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Seeking advice
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Dear NA Members, I should start by admitting that I am not (and have never been) a drug user myself, and I do not participate in NA. I don't know if this message board is designed to offer the same confidentiality and exclusive support that NA meetings offer, and I am genuinely sorry if I have offended an...
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JFT September 23 Dealing with gossip
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In accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other. Basic Text, p. 11 = Lets face it: In Narcotics Anonymous, we live in a glass house of sorts. Our fellow members know more about our personal lives than anyone has ever known before. They kn...
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JFT September 22 Keeping the gift
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Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift. Basic Text, p. 107 = Neglecting our recovery is like neglecting any other gift weve been given. Suppose someone gave you a new car. Would you let it sit in the driveway until the tires rotted? Would you just drive it, ignoring routine m...
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JFT September 21 Prayer
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Prayer takes practice, and we should remind ourselves that skilled people were not born with their skills. Basic Text, p. 46 = Many of us came into recovery with no experience in prayer and worried about not knowing the right words. Some of us remembered the words wed learned in childhood but weren...
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Question
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Has anyone ever been addicted to ephedrine? Is it even addictive? Just wondering. I am thankful for any responses.
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JFT September 20 Courage to change
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Serenity Prayer = Recovery involves change, and change means doing things differently. The problem is, many of us resist doing things differently; what w...
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JFT September 19 Fellowship
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In NA, our joys are multiplied by sharing good days; our sorrows are lessened by sharing the bad. For the first time in our lives, we dont have to experience anything alone. IP No. 16, For the Newcomer = When we practice using the steps and the other tools of our program to work through our hardships, w...
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SPAM
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Can the moderator of this board please clean up the SPAM? Thanks
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JFT September 16 Emotional balance
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Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our experience bears this out. Basic Text, p.47 = Though each of us defines emotional balance a little differently, all of us must find it. Emotional balance can mean finding and maintaining a positive outlook on life, regardless o...
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JFT September 17 Going beyond Step Five
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We may think that we have done enough by writing about our past. We cannot afford this mistake. Basic Text, p. 32 = Some of us arent too keen on writing out our Fourth Step; others take it to an obsessive extreme. To our sponsors growing dismay, we inventory ourselves again and again. We discover ev...
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JFT September 18 Honest relationships
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One of the most profound changes in our lives is in the realm of personal relationships. Basic Text, p. 57 = Recovery gives many of us relationships that are closer and more intimate than any weve had before. As time passes, we find ourselves gravitating toward those who eventually become our fri...
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Clean house, clean everything
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Maybe it's... That I started my 4 step, that I'm pmsing, that I watched the episode of drs explaining the bacteria and parasites and natural flora fauna in on near and around our bodies, maybe it's that my mother in law just visited, or that I'm taking bio 3 on parasites, or that I realized I've been slack...
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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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