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JFT May 14 Oops!
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Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. Basic Text, p. 23 = Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guiltat the very least, with frustration and impatience...
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JFT May 13 Onward on the journey
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The progression of recovery is a continuous uphill journey. Basic Text, p. 83 = The longer we stay clean, the steeper and narrower our path seems to become. But God doesnt give us more than we can handle. No matter how difficult the road becomes, no matter how narrow, how winding the turns, there is h...
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JFT May 12 Living with spiritual experiences
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For meditation to be of value, the results must show in our daily lives. Basic Text, p. 47 = In working our program, we are given many indirect indications of a Higher Powers presence in our lives: the clean feeling that comes to so many of us in taking our Fifth Step; the sense that we are finally on the...
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Online Sponsorship
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Hi All, I have been sponsorless for almost two years. I work out of town in the bush so it is difficult for me to attend as many meetings as I wish. I attend NA meetings in Edmonton close to where I live when I am on days off however after keeping my eyes open for the past 1.5 years, I find it very hard to find wo...
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JFT May 11 Balancing the scales
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A lot of our chief concerns and major difficulties come from our inexperience with living without drugs. Often when we ask an oldtimer what to do, we are amazed at the simplicity of the answer. Basic Text, p. 43 = Finding balance in recovery is quite a bit like sitting down with a set of scales and a pil...
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I said "I never would because I know I'll like it".
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Well thats what I said about H.I did,I do,now want to ween myself off with methadone.Anyone done this before? And how?
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JFT May 10 Becoming entirely ready
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We... get a good look at what these defects are doing to our lives. We begin to long for freedom from these defects. Basic Text, p. 34 = Becoming entirely ready to have our defects of character removed can be a long process, often taking place over the course of a lifetime. Our state of readiness grow...
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God's grace and blessings in recovery a day at a time!
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Thought I would share with my MIP support group some pictures of my kids with their permission to share and also their personal anonymity.My son Eric(27) in recovery from 7 devastating years of heroin addiction with God's grace and mercy renewing our relationship ,each a day at a time and my 46 year ol...
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JFT May 8 Teachable
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We have learned that it is okay to not know all the answers, for then we are teachable and can learn to live our new life successfully. Basic Text, p. 96 = In a way, addiction is a great teacher. And if addiction teaches us nothing else, it will teach us humility. We hear it said that it took our very best t...
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My mom is an addict - how to deal with it
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Hey Narcotics Anonymous Message Board, My name is Steven Rodriguez and this is a song I wrote for my mom two years ago that really helped her realize how her drug use was affecting me and my two little brothers. Sometimes we don't realize how the addiction impact the people who love you. She just recen...
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JFT May 9 Write about it
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"We sit down with a notebook, ask for guidance, pick up our pen, and start writing." Basic Text, p. 30 = When we're confused or in pain, our sponsor sometimes tells us to "write about it." Though we may groan as we drag out the notebook, we know that it will help. By laying it all o...
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resentments
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do you carry a resentment against someone? If so, how do you use your program to deal with the situation? As for me, I have pretty much resolved most of my resentments against people in the program. It's easier for me to "let it go" when it involves someone in program then say a close relative....
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JFT May 7 Turning turmoil into peace
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With the world in such a turmoil, I feel I have been blessed to be where I am. Basic Text, p. 145 = Some days it doesnt pay to turn on the news, we hear so many stories about violence and mayhem. When we used, many of us grew accustomed to violence. Through the fog of our addiction, we rarely got too disturb...
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Online sponsor.
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Hi my name is Samantha, I have been sober off of my DOC since December, 18, 09. However throughout the three years I "occasionally" drank alcohol. And always made excuses and was in denial, because my life was managable unlike it was while on drugs living in Minnesota. I never worked the ste...
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JFT May 6 Are we having fun yet?
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In time, we can relax and enjoy the atmosphere of recovery. Basic Text, p. 56 = Imagine what would happen if a newcomer walked into one of our meetings and was met by a group of grim-faced people gripping the arms of their chairs with white knuckles. That newcomer would probably bolt, perhaps mutte...
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JFT May 5 Any lengths
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...I was ready to go to any lengths to stay clean. Basic Text, p. 132 = Any lengths? newcomers ask. What do you mean, any lengths? Looking back at our active addiction and the lengths we were willing to go to in order to stay high can help to explain. Were we willing to drive many miles to get drugs? Yes, w...
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JFT May 4 What about the newcomer?
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Each group has but one primary purposeto carry the message to the addict who still suffers. Tradition Five = Our home group means a lot to us. After all, where would we be without our favorite NA meeting? Our group sometimes sponsors picnics or other activities. Often, home group members get toge...
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JFT May 3 Sharing our gratitude
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My gratitude speaks when I care and when I share with others the NA way. Gratitude Prayer = The longer we stay clean, the more we experience feelings of gratitude for our recovery. These feelings of gratitude arent limited to particular gifts like new friends or the ability to be employed. More fre...
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JFT May 2 Just maybe...
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There is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our recovery; this is an attitude of indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles. Basic Text, p. 18 = When we first came to NA, many of us had great difficulty accepting the spiritual principles underlying this program...
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JFT May 1 Self-worth and service
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Being involved in service makes me feel worthwhile. = When most of us arrived in Narcotics Anonymous, we had very little self-worth left to salvage. Many members say that they began to develop self-esteem through being of service early in their recovery. Something just short of a miracle occur...
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JFT April 30 God does for us
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Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves. Basic Text, p. 99 = How often have we heard it said in meetings that God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves? At times we may get stuck in our recover...
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JFT April 29 "What if..."
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Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. We learned to take whatever actions are necessary and to leave the results in the hands of our Higher Power. Basic Text, p. 94 = In our active addiction, fear of the future and what might happen was a reality for many of us...
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JFT April 28 Who really gets better?
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We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes. Our best thinking got us into trouble. We recognize the need for change. Basic Text, p. 55 = When new in recovery, most of us had at least one person we just couldnt stand. We thought that person was the rudest, most obnoxious person in the program. W...
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JFT April 27 Recognizing and releasing resentments
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We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today. Basic Text, p. 29 = Many of us had trouble identifying our resentments when we were new in recovery. There we sat with our Fourth Step in front of us, thinking and thinking, finally deciding that we ju...
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JFT April 26 Self-acceptance
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The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery. IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance = Most of us came to Narcotics Anonymous without much self-acceptance. We looked at the havoc we had wreaked in our active addiction, and we loathed ourselves. W...
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JFT April 25 Embracing reality
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Recovery is a reality for us today. Basic Text, p. 101 = Pain and misery were realities in our using lives. We were unwilling either to accept our living situation or to change what was unacceptable in our lives. We attempted to escape lifes pain by taking drugs, but using only compounded our troub...
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JFT April 24 Twelve Steps of life
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Through abstinence and through working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous, our lives have become useful. Basic Text, p. 8 = Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, our lives were centered around using. For the most part, we had very little energy left over for jobs, relationships, or other...
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Last Nights Meeting
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Well, to say I am a bit disheartened would be fair. After the work that was done to upgrade the meeting/chat room, its accesibility from this board, and providing over 4,000 registered NA members here of the meetings on Tuesday and Saturday nites with what I think was adequate advance notice...(sev...
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JFT April 23 A God of our own understanding
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Many of us understand God to be simply whatever force keeps us clean. Basic Text, p. 25 = Some of us enter recovery with a working understanding of a Higher Power. For a lot of us, however, God is a troublesome word. We may doubt the existence of any sort of Power greater than ourselves. Or we may rememb...
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JFT April 22 Traveling the open road
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This is our road to spiritual growth. Basic Text, p. 37 = When we arrived at our first NA meeting, it looked like the end of the road to many of us. We werent going to be able to use anymore. We were spiritually bankrupt. Most of us were totally isolated and didnt think we had much to live for. Little did we...
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