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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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halloween jitters
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needless to say i canceled the ball I was supposed to go to saturday night for several reasons but my main reason is beause that many ppl in that smal place which isn't really so small but thier are ppl i would rather not run into so I will be working instead will I ever be comfortable arround crouds after be...
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JFT November 12 Our own story
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When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us. Basic Text, p. 98 = Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. Someday, we may think, Im g...
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JFT November 11 From surrender to acceptance
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"We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us. Basic Text, p. 26 = Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatua...
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question
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Hi, I am addicted to diet pills. It has been a progression throughout several years and now is very costly and effects my moods and energy to a large degree. Is NA the right group for me? Thanks in advance for the feedback.
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JFT November 10 Fear or faith?
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No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us. Basic Text, p. 14 = For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situations gave us a convenient excuse to u...
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JFT November 9 The best-laid plans
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It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power. Basic Text, p. 91 = Theres an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: If you want to make God laugh, make plans. When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but theres a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if all of our c...
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New Member (Video of my story included)
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Hey everyone! Im new to this board and wanted to introduce myself :) My name is Dan, I live in MD. Been struggling with active addiction for 7 years now, im 26 years old. Im in recovery now and have been sober for close to 3 months. Im in a good place at the moment, go to 2 NA meetings everyday and building my ne...
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JFT November 8 Freed from insanity
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Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident? Basic Text, p. 24 = Weve heard it said that unless were in love, we cant remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once were freed of it, we may forget how truly bizarr...
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Need help
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Hey there I've been clean for one month and need to find a meeting in Alexandria, Egypt. Please help. N -- Edited by Nihal on Saturday 3rd of November 2012 05:24:12 AM
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Struggling for Sobriety
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Hello:) Just signed up today so not sure how all this works. I've tried attending meetings in my town but I live in a small town and at the most 3 people show up and its not been much help. I've been addicted to pain pills for almost 3 years now. I was on suboxen for a few months which really helped but ever sinc...
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JFT November 7 Feeling God's will
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I sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what Gods will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful. = The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us isand the less it matters. Knowle...
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JFT November 1 Awakening
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God helps us as we help each other. Basic Text, p. 52 = Our addiction caused us to think almost exclusively of ourselves. Even our prayersif we prayed at allwere self-centered. We asked God to fix things for us or get us out of trouble. Why? Because we didnt want to live with the problems wed created for...
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JFT October 31 Our relationship with a higher power
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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 = Working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous gives us a fresh start in life and some guidance for living in the world.But the steps a...
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Advice?
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Hello all :) I have 45 days clean today. Prior to that I had been in inpatient treatment, had a slip after I came out for a couple of months and am trying to sort through everything. I've spent all of my adult life using- I'm now 24, started using at the age of 12. I just don't know to function as a person. Life s...
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Celebrating!
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Haven't been posting much lately but pop on daily. Celebrating today, 11,658 days Clean by the Grace of God through the Power of NA! What's special about it? Everything. No not Clean date anniversary - that's next month. It's another Day Clean - what a Gift, what a Miracle!
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JFT November 6 Understanding humility
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Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves. Basic Text, p. 36 = Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word humbly ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Perhaps we chose to l...
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Traditions workshop
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/rw/trads.htm#one I guess its one addicts ESH so reconcile with the lit but he\she does reference page numbers.
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The Twelve Traditions
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So few of us ever realise that our Traditions are what keeps NA alive. The Steps keep us clean, but the Traditions keep NA going so that no addict need die of this disease. Each of the Traditions came from hard-won experience. I wish more people would learn the reasoning behind the Traditions. I'm not qu...
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JFT November 5 God's guidance
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Our Higher Power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of Gods will for us. Basic Text, p. 95 = Its not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first time. In addiction, we dev...
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JFT November 4 Exchanging love
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...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another. Basic Text, p. 105 = Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denominator, connecting...
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JFT November 3 No matter what
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We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start. Basic Text p.85 Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now were in recovery its all wonderful. We feel that we might scare someone away...
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JFT November 2 Living with unsolved problems
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It makes a difference to have friends who care if we hurt. Basic Text, p. 56 = For most of our problems, the solution is simple. We call our sponsor, pray, work the steps, or go to a meeting. But what about those situations where the burden is ongoing and theres no end in sight? Most of us know what its like...
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