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March 17, 2019 True courage Page 79 "Those who make it through these times show a courage not their own." Basic Text, p. 86 Before coming to NA, many of us thought we were brave simply because we had never experienced fear. We had drugged all our feelings, fear among them, until we had convinced ourselve...
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March 16, 2019 Inventory Page 78 "The purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to sort through the confusion and the contradiction of our lives so that we can find out who we really are." Basic Text, p. 27 Using addicts are a confused and confusing bunch of people. It's hard to tell from one...
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March 15 Feeling a part of The get-togethers after our meetings are good opportunities to share things that we didnt get to discuss during the meeting. Basic Text, p. 98 = Active addiction set us apart from society, isolating us. Fear was at the core of that alienation. We believed that if we let o...
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March 14 Relationships Also, our inventories usually include material on relationships. Basic Text, p. 29 = What an understatement this is! Especially in later recovery, entire inventories may focus on our relationships with others. Our lives have been filled with relationships with lov...
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March 13 That one special person A sponsor is not necessarily a friend, but may be someone in whom we confide. We can share things with our sponsor that we might not be comfortable sharing in a meeting. IP No. 11, Sponsorship, Revised = Weve asked someone to sponsor us, and the reasons we have for aski...
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March 12 Getting out of the rut Many times in our recovery, the old bugaboos will haunt us. Life may again become meaningless, monotonous, and boring. Basic Text, p. 78 = Sometimes it seems as though nothing changes. We get up and go to the same job every day. We eat dinner at the same time every nig...
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March 11, 2019 Lightening the load Page 73 "It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another It will make us feel better to clean up our lives." Basic Text, p. 38 Sometimes we need something tangible to help us understand what holding a resentment is doing to us. We may not be aware of how des...
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March 10, 2019 Our own recovery Page 72 "The steps are our solution. They are our survival kit. They are our defense against addiction, a deadly disease. Our steps are the principles that make our recovery possible." Basic Text, p. 19 There's lots to like in Narcotics Anonymous. The meetings, for one...
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March 09, 2019 Small things Page 71 "In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills." Basic Text, p. 90 Making mountains out of molehills seems to be our specialty. Have you heard it said that to an addict, a flat tire is a traumatic event? Or how about those of us...
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March 08, 2019 Learning to love ourselves Page 70 "What we want most is to feel good about ourselves." Basic Text, p. 101 "We'll love you until you can learn to love yourself!" These words, heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerly-the day when we'll know how to love ourselv...
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March 07, 2019 Priorities Page 69 "The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we may forget that our first priority is to stay clean." Basic Text, p. 43 Things can get really good in our recovery. Perhaps we've found our "soul mate," built a rewarding career, started a family. Maybe our relatio...
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March 6 Rationalizing away our recovery As a result of the Twelve Steps, Im not able to hold on to old ways of deceiving myself. = We all rationalize. Sometimes we know we are rationalizing, admit we are rationalizing, yet continue to behave according to our rationalizations! Recovery can bec...
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March 05, 2019 From rude awakening to spiritual awakening Page 67 "When a need arises for us to admit our powerlessness, we may first look for ways to exert power against it. After exhausting these ways, we begin sharing with others and find hope." Basic Text, p. 82 We've sometimes heard it said in our m...
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March 04, 2019 The process Page 66 "This program has become a part of me... I understand more clearly the things that are happening in my life today I no longer fight the process." Basic Text, p. 127 In active addiction, things happened seemingly without rhyme or reason. We just "did things" often with...
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March 03, 2019 Relapse Page 65 "There will be times, however, when we really feel like using. We want to run, and we feel lousy We need to be reminded of where we came from and that it will be worse this time. This is when we need the program the most." Basic Text, p. 81 If we're contemplating a relapse, we sho...
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March 02, 2019 Success Page 64 "Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar." Basic Text, p. 14 Before coming to NA, few of us had much experience with success. Every attempt to stop using on our own had ended in failure. We had begun to give up hope of finding any relief from active addiction. We h...
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March 1 Anxiety attack! [The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it. Basic Text, p. 27 = Ever had a panic attack? Everywhere we turn, lifes demands overwhelm us. Were paralyzed, and we dont know what to do about it. How do we break an anxiet...
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February 27, 2019 "Pure" motives Page 59 "We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that we've been doing better than we've been feeling." Basic Text, p. 43 Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: "When you wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, ta...
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go to http://www.jftna.org/ February 26 Remorse The Eighth Step offers a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse. Basic Text, p. 39 = Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using. We had stumbled our way through active addiction, leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation t...
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February 25, 2019 Sick as our secrets Page 57 "It would be tragic to write [out an inventory only to] shove it in a drawer. These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure." Basic Text, p. 32 How many times have we heard it said that we are only as sick as our secrets? While many members choose n...
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February 24, 2019 A new influence Page 56 "Personality change was what we really needed. Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary." Basic Text, p. 15 In early life, most of us were capable of joy and wonder, of giving and receiving unconditional love. When we started using, we...
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February 23, 2019 Messages and messengers Page 55 "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities." Tradition Twelve The Twelfth Tradition reminds us of the importance of putting "principles before personalities." In r...
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February 22, 2019 God's will, or mine? Page 54 "We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." Step Ten In Narcotics Anonymous, we've found that the more we live in harmony with our Higher Power's will for us, the greater the harmony in our lives. We use the Tenth S...
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February 21 Self-pity or recoveryits our choice Self-pity is one of the most destructive of defects; it will drain us of all positive energy. Basic Text, p. 80 = In active addiction, many of us used self-pity as a survival mechanism. We didnt believe there was an alternative to living in our disea...
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February 20 Powerlessness and personal responsibility Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems. Basic Text, p. 13 = When we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, we give away all of our personal power. We need to remember th...
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February 19 Reservations Relapse is never an accident. Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program. Basic Text, p. 79 = A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and-such happens, we will surely relapse. W...
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February 18, 2019 The recovery partnership Page 50 "As long as I take it easy and make a commitment with my Higher Power to do the best I can, I know I will be taken care of today." Many of us feel that our fundamental commitment in recovery is to our Higher Power. Knowing that we lack the power to stay clean a...
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February 17, 2019 Carrying the message, not the addict Page 49 "They can be analyzed, counseled, reasoned with, prayed over, threatened, beaten, or locked up, but they will not stop until they want to stop." Basic Text, p. 65 Perhaps one of the most difficult truths we must face in our recovery is that...
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February 16, 2019 Faithful feelings Page 48 "When we refuse to accept the reality of today we are denying faith in our Higher Power This can only bring more suffering." IP No. 8,Just for Today Some days just aren't the way we wish they would be. Our problems may be as simple as a broken shoelace or having t...
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February 15, 2019 An awakening of the spirit Page 47 "The last thing we expected was an awakening of the spirit." Basic Text, p. 49 Few of us came to our first Narcotics Anonymous meeting aching to take a personal inventory or believing that a spiritual void existed in our souls. We had no inkling that we...
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