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Friend lost a sponsee :-(
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So I was sitting in a low turn out meeting on Christmas, thinking how my head hurt and maybe I should just get up and leave. I haven't done that yet in my 6 years of attending. Then a young girl shared and it was like electricity shocked me from head to toe. Please say a prayer for my young friend who lost a spo...
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Almost thru with the holidays
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Hlidays are hard even if yyou are nto an addict the biggest party of the year is comng up i suggest you find 24 hour meeting most areas havw a New Years Ball that way we too can go out and be aaround friends I am going to see IF i can findsomeone to go with me eiher that or i will go outta town for a few days as for me a...
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JFT December 27 God could restore us to sanity
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The process of coming to believe restores us to sanity. The strength to move into action comes from this belief. Basic Text, p. 25 = Now that weve finally admitted our insanity and seen examples of it in all its manifestations, we might be tempted to believe that we are doomed to repeat this behavior...
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Skype meetings?
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I have heard of these things, but am clueless about skype. Can someone give me some basic info on what to buy and how to get started?
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Compliments of the season!
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My dear Fellow MIP's.......
I wish you a very Merry Christmas!
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JFT December 26 Never-failing power
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As we learn to trust this Power, we begin to overcome our fear of life. Basic Text, p. 25 = We are people accustomed to placing all our eggs in one basket. Many of us had one particular drug of choice that was our favorite. We relied on it to get us through each day and make life bearable. We were faithful t...
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Ask It Basket
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Hi all. I'm from the Cleveland, Ohio (USA) area and here we have a meeting format called "Ask It Basket". It's one of my favorite meeting format types. I was wondering if you also have this type of meeting format in your NA meetings, and what area are you from?
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John F
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John F: If you are following this board, please contact me. Dave R
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JFT December 25 Anonymity and self-will
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The drive for personal gain... which brought so much pain in the past falls by the wayside if we adhere to the principle of anonymity. Basic Text, p. 76 = The word anonymity itself means namelessness, but theres a larger principle at work in the anonymity of the NA program: the principle of selfless...
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Congratulations to my friend!
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Blessings of this day and congratulations to (((((((((Raman))))))))), 25 YEARS CLEAN ANNIVERSARY.Thanks for the help through the years and sharing and giving back your ESH in a loving and caring manner.May your Higher Power continue to guide and strenthen your life.Stay blessed my brother.......
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JFT December 24 The Group
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The Twelfth Step of our personal program also says that we carry the message to the addict who still suffers. The group is the most powerful vehicle we have for carrying the message. Basic Text, p. 68 = When we first come to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, we meet recovering addicts. We know they are a...
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Spouse of an addict
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Hello, I'm writing for perspective because I feel so isolated because of my husband's addiction. He has been an opiate addict for as long as I can remember. He began using when we first met and hid it for several years, only admitting it well into our marrage. His entire family are addicts, they we...
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JFT DEcember 23 New ideas
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We reevaluate our old ideas so we can become acquainted with the new ideas that lead to a new way of life. Basic Text, p. 94 = Learning to live a new way of life can be difficult. Sometimes, when the going gets especially hard, were tempted to follow the path of least resistance and live by our old ideas a...
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Help with Relationships
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Hi- I havent been on here in ironically about a year to post. I generally get on and read a lot of great recovery suggestions that I try to apply in my every day life. I will be picking up my 2 year coin on the 18th and though I have worked my ass off to get to where I am today I feel like I am struggling to practice t...
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New board moderator
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I have been moderating this board for a while now and would like to turn it over to someone else. If you would like to be the new moderator email mip@12stepforums.net Thanks
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URGENT_Suggestion needed to get settle at new Job
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Hey guys becoz of past active addiction there are over a dozen employers and 14 years of unemployment in Resume.Got a new job.I am from Accounts background and the new job (great pay) has got accounts plus stores plus admin.I am zero at admin and stores never handled.I am clean 18 months.Got aging and s...
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JFT December 22 A new way to live
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When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we all face the same dilemma.... Either go on as best we can to the bitter endsjails, institutions, or deathor find a new way to live. Basic Text, p. 87 = What was the worst aspect of active add...
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JFT December 21 Acceptance and change
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Freedom to change seems to come after acceptance of ourselves. Basic Text, p. 58 = Fear and denial are the opposites of acceptance. None of us are perfect, even in our own eyes; all of us have certain traits that, given the chance, we would like to change. We sometimes become overwhelmed when contem...
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this is a perfet song to expipast three years and then some
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqds0B_meys
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JFT December 20 Overcoming self-obsession
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In living the steps, we begin to let go of our self-obsession. Basic Text, p. 97 = Many of us came to the program convinced that our feelings, our wants, and our needs were of the utmost importance to everyone. We had practiced a lifetime of self-seeking, self-centered behavior and believed it was t...
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JFT December 19 Walking the way we talk
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Words mean nothing until we put them into action. Basic Text, p. 58 = The Twelfth Step reminds us to practice these principles in all our affairs. In NA, we see living examples of this suggestion all around us. The more experienced members, who seem to have an aura of peace surrounding them, demonst...
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JFT December 18 The message of our meetings
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The fact that we, each and every group, focus on carrying the message provides consistency; addicts can count on us. Basic Text, p. 68 = Tales of our antics in active addiction may be funny. Stories of our old bizarre reactions to life when using may be interesting. But they tend to carry the mess mor...
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Oxford House for W/C in Seattle Any Suggestions??
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I am a single mother who needs to move into an Oxford house as soon as possible. I have made a few calls but there are not very many options for mothers with children. I don't mind moving as far as Oregon but prefer to stay within a 50 mile radius of my current location. I am really serious about staying clean...
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JFT DEcember 17 Service motives
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Everything that occurs in the course of NA service must be motivated by the desire to more successfully carry the message of recovery to the addict who still suffers. Basic Text, p. xxvi = Our motives are often a surprise to us. In our early days of recovery, they were almost always a surprise! Weve l...
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New to NA have past AA recovery help please
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I am new to NA I am formiliar with the 12 step program. I was in aa recovery 20 yrs ago but became a drinker of less to get buzzed. Now with my back injury and the stress I have in the house pain pills have beceom more convient and noone really knows the difference but me. There is no alcohol no one drinks but...
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JFT December 16 Where there's smoke
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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 = Recognizing complacency in our recovery is like seeing smoke in a room. The smoke thickens when our meeting attendance drops, contact with newcome...
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Experiences with the Interferon Treatment
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Two of my friends from the Fellowship went on Interferon treatment this week and they are down with fever and stomach cramps. I was considering going for it myself and might go on it myself in a few months. Are there others here who have undergone this treatment for their hepatitis C? I would really appr...
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JFT December 15 The joy of sharing
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There is a spiritual principle of giving away what we have been given in Narcotics Anonymous in order to keep it. By helping others to stay clean, we enjoy the benefit of the spiritual wealth that we have found. Basic Text, p. 49 = Time and again in our recovery, others have freely shared with us what w...
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JFT December 14 Addiction, drugs, and recovery
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Addiction is a physical, mental, and spiritual disease that affects every area of our lives. Basic Text, p. 20 = Before we started using, most of us had a stereotype, a mental image of what addicts were supposed to look like. Some of us pictured a junkie robbing convenience markets for drug money. O...
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WE ARE ALL THE SAME
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Hello everyone my name is Tamara and I have been a struggling addict for the last 4 years with sprouts of clean time. One very important thing ladies and gentlmen is NEVER EVER get to cocky in your soberity and think you are above and beyond it. I was the girl going to the classes swearing up and down I would...
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