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JFT July 17 Using our "using dreams"
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Do we fully accept the fact that our every attempt to stop using or to control our using failed? Basic Text, p. 19 = The room is dark. Your forehead is bathed in cold sweat. Your heart is racing. You open your eyes, sure that youve just blown your clean time. Youve had a using dream, and it was just lik...
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JFT July 16 Self-esteem
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Deep inside, I had feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. = Somewhere along the way, many of us developed strong feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. Deep inside was a voice that continually cried out, Youre worthless! Many of us learn to recognize this characteristic of low self-estee...
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Shalom
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Hey everyone! How's it going? The board has been too quiet the past couple days...
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JFT July 15 Relations with others
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We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. Step Eight = All human beings struggle with self-centeredness. The chronic self-centeredness that lies at the very core of addiction makes that struggle doubly difficult for people like us. Many of us have l...
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JFT July 13 Humility in action
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If we are hurting, and most of us do from time to time, we learn to ask for help. Basic Text, p. 83 = Sometimes recovery gets downright difficult. It can be even more difficult to get humble enough to ask for help. We think, I have all this time clean. I should be better than this! But the reality of rec...
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JFT July 14 An "inside" job
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Social acceptability does not equal recovery. Basic Text, p. 22 = One of the first things that happens to many of us in recovery is that we start to look better. We get healthier; we bathe; we dress more appropriately. And without the goading of active addiction, many of us finally stop stealing,...
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Hey Manon....folks here are thinking about you.
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Just a shout out to let you know that you are always in our thoughts. Some here are missing you, and yes maybe a little worried, so if you see this please just let us know your ok. (((((Mannon)))))
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Drug of choice?
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It really annoys me sometimes when I hear addicts talk about their drug of choice. It is like they think that they really only had a problem with a particular drug. I've heard the following recently from a newcomer: "Yeah, I wasn't really an addict until I started doing opiates. Before then, I s...
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JFT July 12 Patience
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We were trapped by our need for the instant gratification that drugs gave us. Basic Text, p. 25 = I want what I want, and I want it now! Thats about as patient as most of us ever got in our active addiction. The obsession and compulsion of our disease gave us a one-track way of thinking; when we wanted so...
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JFT July 11 Encouragement
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We share comfort and encouragement with others. Basic Text, p. 99 = Many of us have watched as babies take their first steps. The mother holds the child on its feet. The father kneels nearby with outstretched arms, encouraging the little one, his face flooded with devotion. The baby takes a few s...
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JFT July 10 A positive attitude
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That old nest of negativism followed me everywhere I went. Basic Text, p. 137 = A negative attitude is the trademark of active addiction. Everything that occurred in our lives was someone or something elses fault. We had blaming others for our shortcomings down to a fine science. In recovery,...
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JFT July 9 We do recover!
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...the time has come when that tired old lie, Once an addict, always an addict, will no longer be tolerated by either society or the addict himself. We do recover. Basic Text, p. 89 = From time to time, we hear speakers share that they dont really understand spiritual principles yet. They tell us...
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Things I Learned in Rehab
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I wrote a story about my trip to rehab (my most recent one!) and I put it up on amazon. I was wondering if anyone was interested in checking it out. It's on amazon only. I really need the support. It's slow getting started and I worked really hard on it. It's really funny and a little vulgar, but that's where...
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JFT July 8 The "G" word
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It is important for you to know that you will hear God mentioned at NA meetings. What we are referring to is a Power greater than ourselves that makes possible what seems impossible. IP No. 22, Welcome to NA = Most of us come to Narcotics Anonymous with a variety of preconceptions about what the word G...
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seeking recovery in a new place
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JFT July 6 "I'm sorry"
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The main thing [the Eighth Step] does for us is to help build awareness that, little by little, we are gaining new attitudes about ourselves and how we deal with other people. Basic Text, p. 39 = To say Im sorry probably isnt such a foreign idea to most of us. In our active addiction, it may have bee...
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JFT July 7 God in each other
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One aspect of our spiritual awakening comes through the new understanding of our Higher Power that we develop by sharing another addicts recovery. Basic Text, p. 52 = Weve heard it said that we often see God most clearly in one another. We see the truth of this when we practice our Twelfth Step. Whe...
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7 years clean today
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Something made a noise in my ear just a bit ago to come and check the board out and as i'm here reading I realized today, july 5th is my clean date LOL isn't that something ? i say it is for this hope to die addict. And no it hasn't gotten easier but, I have learned that this to shall pass, hang on tight for the ri...
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I'm a Newbie.
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I'm a newbie, named Paige. I feel like I don't have much Strength to share. But, I do have hope and way more experience(the bad kind) than I care to admit. Currently, I am in self imposed exile. Not just because I can't get too far from the facilities. But, because this last time I went buying on the stree...
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new to the forum but not to NA
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just saying helo to all. just moved back to portland oregon after many yrs. I moved from here when i quit drugs in 1988. odd to be back it is a true test for me. Happy to see the place that I owe for my 1st learning of NA still exists the URS club cant wait to attend a meeting there. Anyhoo looking to make fri...
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Late night NA Meeting near Culver City CA? Hi. Just starting out..
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I cant ever seem to make it to a meeting during the day or by the time im ready to actually go, it's too late to find a meeting. Any suggestions? (Other than the obvious please ie; getting my self together and planning, yada yada). That's why I need to go!
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JFT July 5 Exploring spiritual options
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The nature of our belief will determine the manner of our prayers and meditation. Basic Text, p. 44 = How do we pray? For each NA member, this is a deeply personal matter. Many of us find that, over time, we develop a manner of prayer and meditation based on what we learn from others and what we are com...
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JFT July 3 Quiet time
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Many of us have found that setting aside quiet time for ourselves is helpful in making conscious contact with our Higher Power. Basic Text, p. 95 = Most of us pay lip-service to the value of conscious contact with a Higher Power. Yet how many of us consistently take time to improve that conscious con...
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JFT July 4 Conflict
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We learn that conflicts are a part of reality, and we learn new ways to resolve them instead of running from them. Basic Text, p. 90 = From time to time, we all experience conflicts. It may be that we just cant get along with that new coworker. Maybe our friends are driving us crazy. Or perhaps our par...
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JFT July 2 Comparing
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"Our personal stories may vary in individual pattern, but in the end we all have the same thing in common." Basic Text, p.84 We addicts are a varied bunch, coming from different backgrounds, having used different drugs, and recalling different experiences. Our differences don't disap...
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JFT July 1 A simple program
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The program is simply sharing, working the Twelve Steps, attending meetings, and practicing the principles of the program. = Our complicated lives can be made a lot less complicated if we concentrate on a few simple thingssharing our experience, strength, and hope with others, regular meetin...
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JFT June 30 Maintaining the foundation
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Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future. Basic Text, p. 96 = The foundation of our lives is what the rest of our lives is built upon. When we were using, that foundation affected everything we did. When we decided that recovery was important, thats where we began t...
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Newbie here..
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not sure how the site works but very interested in online meetings as i ushually work to late to make them every night
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JFT June 29 Keeping recovery fresh
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Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases. Basic Text, p. 84 = After the first couple of years in recovery, most of us start to feel like there are no more big deals. If weve been diligent in working the steps, the pas...
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JFT June 28 Group conscience
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Working with others is only the beginning of service work. Basic Text, p. 59 = Service work calls for a selfless devotion to carrying the message to the still-suffering addict. But our attitude of service cannot stop there. Service also requires that we look at ourselves and our motives. Our effor...
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