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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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hello!
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Hi everyone. ready for the mega storm? im not. i have to work in the hurricane weather tomorrow yuck. but Halloween is coming and its my favorite holiday. I can't wait to scare some children. but after that I might be making a trip to rehab. but for now im going to eat my feelings ha
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Skype meetings??
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I am new to this. My mom highly advices me to go to meetings and I was hoping that by some awesome miracle there were skype meetings so I don't have to leave :) My boyfriend of almost 7 years are clean together right now but in a cross roads at the moment so I suppose I have a couple of questions that can likely...
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Need advice help please
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I would love it if when you have time you could go in under my username and post this I cant post anything iwth a alink my computers fucke up na.activeboard.com I have been clean since 10-16-12 Its been a real struggle at times because I cant get to meetings as i dont have the money for a cab or gas. Today i...
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JFT October 30 Courage
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Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future. Basic Text, p. 96 = Narcotics Anonymous is no place for the faint of heart!Facing life on lifes terms without the use of drugs isnt always easy.Recovery requires more than hard work; it requires a liberal dose of courage. Wh...
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JFT October 18 We all belong
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Although politics makes strange bedfellows, as the old saying goes, addiction makes us one of a kind. Basic Text, p. 87 = What a mixture of folks we have in Narcotics Anonymous! In any given meeting on any given night, well find a variety of people who probably never would have sat down in a room toget...
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JFT October 29 Living in the now
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Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. Basic Text, pp. 94 = Thoughts of how bad it wasor could becan consume our hopes for recovery.Fantasies of how wonderful it wasor could becan divert us from taking action in the real world.Thats why, in Narcotics Anonymo...
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JFT October 28 Attitudes
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We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes. Basic Text, p. 55 = Ever have a day when everything seems to be working against you?Do you go through periods when you are so busy taking peoples inventories you can barely stand yourself?What about when you find yourself snapping at your coworker o...
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Not 'enough'
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Hello everyone! It has been awhile since I have posted on here. I was wondering how you handle those days when you don't feel good enough. What do you guys feel inadequate about? Mine usually has to do with my appearance...seems a little shallow. I know my head will always lie to me but I know the truth is t...
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Procrastination
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Ok since you guys are such smarty pantses What are some tips for overcoming procrastination?? I have gotten into the habit of putting things off and then bursting into a frenzy of "no-time left" crises mode to complete tasks. They get done, but I am afraid I am giving myself wrinkles...
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JFT October 27 Living in the present
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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 = For many of us, the past is like a bad dream.Our lives arent the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past.The guilt...
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JFT October 26 The path to 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 = Our addiction has been a source of shame to many of us. We have hidden ourselves from others, sure that if anyone got to know who we really were they would reject us....
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NA meetings in San Francisco/ Bay Area suggestions
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Looking for mtg suggestions in the City/ Bay Area. Gonna be there saturday afternoon through tuesday morning. Looking at the schedule I noticed alot of the meetings have changed. Monday Olaf house moved (wonder how its doing in its new place.) 924 Gilman monday night is still there one of my favorite...
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New Member Question on how to practice or work the 12 Steps of N.A.
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Hello Everyone, This is my first question on this Message Board. How do you practice or work the 12 Steps on Narcotics Anonymous? I have been to a few face to face N.A. meetings both Open and Closed and identified myself as an Addict. I bought the books Narcotics Anonymous, a Green and Gold book calle...
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JFT October 25 Principles before personalities
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Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. Tradition Twelve = Principles before personalities. Many of us chant these words along with the reader whenever the Twelve Traditions are read. The fact that these word...
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