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holiday blues
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Many an addict deals with such anxiety and I agree they can suck ever since i was young they have been an issues for me I am trying to quit smoking by using electronic ciggerettes for the most part they helpso no complaints cant say i am totally free of tobacco as i do sneakone in a time or two I feel so overwhe...
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New Boston Group
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Looking for new comers to sponsor and teach meditation and yoga . I can come to your place.I am Mark an NA therapisr and Right Turn Counselor -- Edited by To Far Gone on Friday 16th of November 2012 10:11:03 PM
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JFT December 1 Life's rewards
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We begin to pray only for Gods will for us. That way, we get only what we are capable of handling. Basic Text, p. 49 = Imagine what might happen if God gave us everything we wanted. A fabulous new car, straight As, a triple salary raiseall ours without effort, just for the asking. Now imagine the proble...
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JFT November 30 Sharing the real me
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Sharing with others keeps us from feeling isolated and alone. Basic Text, p. 85 = Intimacy is the sharing of our innermost thoughts and feelings with another human being. Many of us long for the warmth and companionship intimacy brings, but those things dont come without effort. In our addiction...
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New to NA New to Tx
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I didn't realize I had a problem until about 8 mos ago. Im a mom of two (10 and 2, girl and boy) and was prescribed benzos after my son was born. I liked the way they made me feel and the doc upped my dose several times. about 10 mos ago that wasnt enuf. Started buying on the street too. Took anywhere from 6 to 20m...
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JFt November 29 Our higher power's care
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We believe that our Higher Power will take care of us. Basic Text, p. 58 = Our program is based on the idea that the application of simple principles can produce profound effects in our lives. One such principle is that, if we ask, our Higher Power will care for us. Because this principle is so basic, w...
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JFT November 28 Being ourselves
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To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves. Basic Text, p. 36 = Humility is a puzzling concept. We know a lot about humiliation, but humility is a new idea. It sounds suspiciously like groveling, bowing, and scraping. But thats not what humility is at all. True humility is, simp...
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JFT November 27 Seeking God's help
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At times during our recovery, the decision to ask for Gods help is our greatest source of strength and courage. Basic Text, p. 26 = When we take the Third Step, we decide to allow a loving Higher Power to guide us and care for us in our daily lives. We make the decision to allow this guidance and care into...
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Today is a new day
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Hello, like everyone else here, i am in need of support. i am in need of people who understand what it is like to live daily with severe pain and takes narcotics to manage the pain. I have been an opiate user for about 16 years now and while I take it for pain, i have become a slave to it and i want it to stop. but...
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My daughter
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So I tried to go into an nar anon board, and I was blocked because 'I'm a known spammer'. Give me a brake I am not!! Anyway I get a red light ticket, and see it's not my daughter driving her car. She knows this is forbidden and I'm all twisted about how to respond. Don't want to be an enabler, and I should just c...
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JFT November 26 Responsibility
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A lot happens in one day, both negative and positive. If we do not take the time to appreciate both, perhaps we will miss something that will help us grow. IP No. 8, Just for Today = Responsibility, responsibilitythe responsibilities of life are everywhere. Were supposed to wear seat belts. Were s...
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JFT November 25 Meditation
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Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us. Basic Text, p. 46-47 = As our recovery progresses, we often reflect on what brought us to Narcotics Anonymous in the first place and are able to appreciate how much the quality of our lives...
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prayers
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A boy I went to high school with passed away yesterday due to addiction. He was 19 and the brother of the kid who shot all the students at Chardon High. The disease claims another.
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Struggling and getting honest...
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Made it through Thanksgiving and just got home a few hours ago from an NA meeting... My story.... -Three relapses... -Clean since October 1st -Hydrocodone use....prescribed for fibro, neck and back bulging disks...abused....YES I've been hitting abou 5-6 meetings a week....Tried NA before......
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JFT November 24 Gratefully recovering
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We entertained the thought that staying clean was not paying off, and the old thinking stirred up self-pity, resentment, and anger. Basic Text, p. 102 = There are days when some of us wallow in self-pity. Its easy to do. We may have expectations about how our lives should be in recovery, expectatio...
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JFT November 23 God's will
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The relief of letting go and letting God helps us develop a life that is worth living. Basic Text, p. 26 = In our addiction, we were afraid of what might happen if we didnt control everything around us. Many of us made up elaborate lies to protect our use of drugs. Some of us manipulated everyone around...
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JFT November 22 Foundation first
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As we begin to function in society, our creative freedom helps us sort our priorities and do the basic things first. Basic Text, p. 83 = No sooner do we get clean than some of us begin putting other priorities ahead of our recovery. Careers, families, relationshipsall these are part of the life we fi...
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JFT November 21 Letting our defects go
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If [character defects] contributed to our health and happiness, we would not have come to such a state of desperation. Basic Text, p. 35 = Getting started on the Sixth and Seventh Steps isnt always easy. We may feel as though we have so much wrong with us that we are totally defective. We might feel li...
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JFT November 20 Finding fulfillment
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We werent oriented toward fulfillment; we focused on the emptiness and worthlessness of it all. Basic Text, p. 89 = There were probably hundreds of times in our active addiction when we wished we could become someone else. We may have wished we could trade places with someone who owned a nice car or...
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detoxing from norco need support
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iv been in and out of na most of my life. i finally gave up meth and cigs 2 1/2 yrs ago. i started using norcos for my arthritis 1 yr ago. i went from prescribed 1 5mg vicodin to buying off the street and taking 6-8 10mg norcos a day. iam doing a 3 day tapper than iam done. iam scared. my mind is in overdrive and i...
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First day, tapering off hydrocodone, glad to find this forum
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I'm new here, recovering alcoholic and finally getting honest re my "problem" with vicodin. Was prescribed over a year ago for chronic pain, and I've become dependent on it, crave it, obsess about it, worry about running out, etc. It owns me and I hate that. Started a taper today to get off...
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JFT November 19 The language of empathy
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...the addict would find from the start as much identification as each needed to convince himself that he could stay clean, by the example of others who had recovered for many years. Basic Text, p. 88 = Many of us attended our first meeting and, not being entirely sure that NA was for us, found much to...
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JFT November 18 Self-discovery
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The Tenth Step can help us correct our living problems and prevent their recurrence. Basic Text, p. 42 = Our identities, how we think and feel, have been shaped by our experiences. Some of our experiences have made us better people; others have caused us shame or embarrassment; all of them have inf...
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JFT November 17 Walking through the pain
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We never have to use again, no matter how we feel. All feelings will eventually pass. Basic Text, p. 82 = It hurts like never before. You get out of bed after a sleepless night, talk to God, and still dont feel any better. It will pass, a little voice tells you. When? you wonder, as you pace and mutter and...
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Relationships
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Ok I am curious to hear what you guys have to say on this topic because in my 6years around the fellowship I haven't heard about too many successful relationships.... 1.) What is the most challenging aspect for you in a relationship? 2.) What is the best tip you have to make one work? I'll answer when I ha...
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JFT November 16 Alone no more
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We gradually and carefully pull ourselves out of the isolation and loneliness of addiction and into the mainstream of life. Basic Text, p. 37 = Many of us spent much of our using time alone, avoiding other peopleespecially people who were not usingat all costs. After years of isolation, trying to...
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Lost my Best Friend
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I had to put my best friend to sleep, and I'm just coming to terms with her passing. She really was special. Aja was a rescue dog who had a very hard life prior to finding her way into our lives. Right after we got her, she became very sic and had to go to Penn Vet. Hopsital. The local vet thought she was dying. B...
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JFT November 15 Letting go
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Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live. Basic Text, p. 26 = How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through others. When we accept that we dont have...
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JFT November 14 Not just surviving
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When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving. Basic Text, p. 52 = Id be better off dead! A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was more of the same miserable existence. Our hold on l...
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JFT November 13 Not perfect
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We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human. Basic Text, p. 31 = All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe we imagined perfect ease in our inter...
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