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JFT June 17 Walls
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Reaching out is the beginning of the struggle that will set us free. It will break down the walls that imprison us. Basic Text, p. 83 = Many of us came to NA emotionally shattered. Years of using people and allowing them to use us had taken their toll on our ability to trust anyone, ourselves included....
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JFT June 16 Accepting life
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Some things we must accept, others we can change. The wisdom to know the difference comes with growth in our spiritual program. Basic Text, p. 95 = Its relatively easy to accept the things we likeits the things we dont like that are hard to accept. But remaking the world and everyone in it to suit our t...
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Advise please
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I am a parent to a 27 yr. old opiate addict. He decided a month ago he wanted to get his life back and get clean. He has gone to a substances abuse doctor and got on a program of decreasing amounts of suboxone, then going through a 10 day detox, and finally taking vivitrol shots for 6 to 12 months. Along wit...
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I wrote something long and venting but it got deleted and I'm just too tired to write it again. Summary I'm struggling today. I want to use. I'm not worth fighting for. My fiancé talks to me like a piece of shit because I work too much and he gets to say on his ass everyday and get disability and social secur...
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JFT June 15 Resistance to change
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Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing, or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for the unknown. Basic Text, p. 34 = We have often heard it said that when the pain of remaining the same becomes grea...
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JFT June 14 Maintaining our faith
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If we maintain our spiritual condition daily, we find it easier to deal with the pain and confusion. Basic Text, p. 95 = When we first began searching for a Power greater than ourselves, many of us got stuck in old beliefs or ideas. These ranged from the fear of a punishing or vengeful God to no belief at...
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JFT June 13 A full life
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The program works a miracle in our lives.... We become free to live. Basic Text, p. 11 = Most of usif weve been in recovery for any length of time at allhave heard some member complaining in a meeting about being terribly overworked, too busy for meetings or sponsorship or other activities. In fact, w...
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JFT June 12 A vision of hope
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Yes, we are a vision of hope... Basic Text, p. 53 = By the time we reached the end of our road, many of us had lost all hope for a life without the use of drugs. We believed we were destined to die from our disease. What an inspiration it was, then, coming to our first meeting and seeing a room full of addicts w...
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Relaspe, doesnt mean its over.
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I changed my clean date. My lust took over and I was led away by my desires. I am on my way to a meeting but I feel like I was shot. I know that things will get better but I am in so much pain that it sometimes hard to express what I am feeling. I listen to what others are saying, I just show up, I dont use and tell some...
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JFT June 11 Living clean
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As we recover, we gain a new outlook on being clean.... Life can become a new adventure for us. Basic Text, p. 91 = The using life is not a clean oneno one knows this better than we do. Some of us lived in physical squalor, caring neither for our surroundings nor ourselves. Worse, though, than any exter...
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JFT June 10 Changing motives
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When we finally get our own selfish motives out of the way, we begin to find a peace that we never imagined possible. Basic Text, p. 45 = As we examine our beliefs, our actions, and our motives in recovery, well find that sometimes we do things for the wrong reasons. In our early recovery, we may have spe...
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Archives
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Anyone wishing to share and exchange archives and workbooks and awesome stuff bout NA....we can. I have much of Greg Pierce's stuff also have lots of stuff from Jim M and here is a site maintained by Chris B n Boyd P from NC: narchive.magshare.net click on the lil folder at the top left corner and watch wh...
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JFT June 9 Old dreams needn't die
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Lost dreams awaken and new possibilities arise. Basic Text, p. 91 = Most of us had dreams when we were young. Whether we dreamed of a dynamic career, a large and loving family, or travels abroad, our dreams died when our addiction took hold. Anything we ever wanted for ourselves was cast away in our pu...
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JFT June 8 The only requirement
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This program offers hope. All you have to bring with you is the desire to stop using and the willingness to try this new way of life. IP No. 16, For the Newcomer = From time to time we wonder if were doing it right in Narcotics Anonymous. Are we attending enough meetings? Are we using our sponsor, or work...
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JFT June 7 Someone who believes in me
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Just for today, I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery. Basic Text, p. 100 = Not all of us arrive in NA and automatically stay clean. But if we keep coming back, we find in Narcotics Anonymous the support we need for our recovery. Staying clean is easier whe...
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JFT June 6 Recovery doesn't happen overnight
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The Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous are a progressive recovery process established in our daily living. Basic Text, p. 99 = After some time in recovery, we may find we are faced with what seem like overwhelming personal problems, angry feelings, and despair. When we realize whats going on, we...
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JFT June 3 Direct and indirect amends
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We make our amends to the best of our ability. Basic Text, p. 40 = The Ninth Step tells us to make direct amends wherever possible. Our experience tells us to follow up those direct amends with long-lasting changes in our attitudes and our behaviorthat is, with indirect amends. For example, say we'v...
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JFT June 4 Build, don't destroy
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Our negative sense of self has been replaced by a positive concern for others. Basic Text, p. 16 = Spreading gossip feeds a dark hunger in us. Sometimes we think the only way we can feel good about ourselves is to make someone else look bad by comparison. But the kind of self-esteem that can be purchase...
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JFT June 5 Honest prayer
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Although honesty is difficult to practice, it is most rewarding. Basic Text, p. 96 = How difficult we find it to be honest! Many of us come to NA so confused about what really happened in our lives that it sometimes takes months and years to sort it all out. The truth of our history is not always as we have...
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Time keeps on slippin,slippin,into the future!!
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Morning and blessings of this day! An old line from Steve Miller Band(we used to cover)talking about flying like an eagle..Reminds me of one of my favorite spiritual readings I would use especially on Marathon days to remind myself of life with God's (of my understandings) strength and guidance.Wo...
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JFT June2 Sick and tired
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We wanted an easy way out.... When we did seek help, we were only looking for the absence of pain. Basic Text, p. 5 = Somethings not working. In fact, somethings been wrong for a long time, causing us pain and complicating our lives. The problem is that, at any given moment, it always appears easier to c...
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JFT June 1 Keep coming back
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We dont have to be clean when we get here but, after the first meeting, we suggest that newcomers keep coming back and come back clean. We dont have to wait for an overdose or a jail sentence to get help from Narcotics Anonymous. Basic Text, pp. 10-11 = Very few of us arrive in NA brimming with willingnes...
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Newcomer here
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Hello all, I am on day 2 of a cold turkey detox from opiates. I know the worst is yet to Come but it won't last long. I am new here to this forum, but not to the fellowship. I had my first meeting 15 years ago,,my longest stretch of clean time was 6 years. this has been my toughest time coming back, not sure...
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i feel like hell
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Hey y'all. Just checking in. I've been starting to plan my wedding the date is Aug 31 2014 but that's all i got. I've been sick with pneumonia for 3 weeks and will most likely be going to the hospital tomorrow because it could affect other health issues. Anyone heard from Manon recently?
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JFT May 31 Keep it simple
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We live a day at a time but also from moment to moment. When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably. Basic Text, p. 99 = Life often seems too complicated to understand, especially for those of us whove dodged it for so long. When we stopped using drugs, many of us c...
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JFT May 30 Loneliness vs. being alone
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Sharing with others keeps us from feeling isolated and alone. Basic Text, p. 85 = There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Being lonely is a state of the heart, an emptiness that makes us feel sad and sometimes hopeless. Loneliness is not always alleviated when we enter into relat...
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i need advice please fast!!!!!!
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Hello all..... I'm bubba and I am a addict no doubt. My drug of choice are opiates. Actually only opiates. i won't take anything but opiates. So I need advice because I can't get methadone or suboxone. I've been taking pain killers since '03 and I'm up to 4 100mg ms contins per day. I was thinking that my s...
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JFT May 29 Carry me
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We believe that our Higher Power will take care of us. Basic Text, p. 58 = We all have times when it seems as though our lives are falling apart. There are days, or even weeks, when it seems that everything that can go wrong is going wrong. Whether its the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, or the end of a...
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Experience, Strength, & Hope dealing with contraversy & disunity within your Home Group
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What can u do when that 1 place u came to find early in recovery where u can feel welcomed, at home, loved, be a part of, get that 1st taste of service, & u call ur home group, gets so complacent or whatever it may be thts causing soooo much disunity, judgement, favoritism, and such a general lack of prac...
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JFT May 28 As we understand
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We examined our lives and discovered who we really are. To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves. Basic Text, p. 36 = As using addicts, the demands of our disease determined our personality. We could be whoever or whatever we needed to be in order to get our fix. We were survival m...
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