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Fourth Step
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Today i finished writing my first fourth step. I am so relieved to be done with it, but also, i have been relieved of alot of feelings of my past. Ive begun sleeping better at night. Im feeling better, as my relationshgip with my hp has grown stronger. I had to turn to him many times and get the courage to sta...
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JFT September 30 Being ourselves
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Our real value is in being ourselves.Basic Text, p. 105=Over and over, we have tried to live up to the expectations of those around us. We may have been raised believing that we were okay if we earned good grades in school, cleaned our rooms, or dressed a certain way. Always wanting to belong and be l...
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Hello again from Japan....
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Just checkin in.......Minimal N/A here in Japan unfortunately. Mostly in Tokyo and Osaka, and I am far away from either of those places. I'm about an hour south of Hiroshima. Anywa-would be cool to hear from you guys---I feel alone out here a lot. Not using----and it's tough to do that for the most part...
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JFT September 29 Just for today
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When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably.Basic Text, p. 99=Just for todayits a comforting thought. If we try to live in the past, we may find ourselves torn by painful, disquieting memories. The lessons of our using are not the teachers we seek for recov...
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JFT September 28 Hope
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Gradually, as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope. Basic Text, p. 95 = As using addicts, despair was our relentless companion. It colored our every waking moment. Despair was born of our experience in active addiction: No matter what measures we tried to m...
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I need help with a question in step 1 please!
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I don't have a sponsor yet but I am looking. So i was hoping someone on here could help me understand this question.Am I comparing a current manifestation of my addiction to the way my life was before I got clean? Am I plagued by the idea that I should know better? I've read it over and over again but I just d...
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I DONT KNOW WHY
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HI my name is Kris and im new here.... If u guys could please read my bio otherwise il get to going and write a book (im tired of dis). my dads a recovering addict whos bn telling me "Kris get help man" . he got clean about 17 or 18 years ago thru the na program.... and i remeber being a kid and going wi...
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Not sure where to start
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Hello, I am new to the forum and new to drug addiction. My husband is in federal prison for conspircy to manufacture meth. When he was arrested and sent to prison we were not together. We meet when we were younger. When we went to high school we went our seperate ways. We met up again after 30 years of...
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FEELING GREAT
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i jus went to my first meeting .... im gonna do 90 in 90 days for starters but i jus wanted to say that first meeting has me FEELING GREAT FAMILY...I LOVE U ALL FOR UR SUPPORT ON THIS JOURNEY AND I THANK U ALL.
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JFT September 27 Right back up
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There is something in our self-destructive personalities that cries for failure. Basic Text, p. 80 = Poor me; woe is me; look at me, my life is such a mess! Ive fallen, and no matter how hard I try, I continue to fail. Many of us came to NA singing this sad refrain. Life isnt like that anymore. True, so...
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Scared.
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Hello, I am new to this forum. My name is Ashley. Hopefully you have 5 minutes to read my Bio before responding. I used last night. I am on probation and am suppose to screen for home arrest on Thusday but now it is obvious I will not pass the drug tests. So, I'm going to jail. But what I am the most scare...
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JFT September 26 Seeing ourselves in others
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It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another. Basic Text, p. 38 = How easy it is to point out the faults of others! Theres a reason for this: The defects we identify most easily in others are often the defects we are most familiar with in our own characters. We may notice our best fri...
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JFT September 25 The Fourth step--fearing our feelings
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We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic.Basic Text, p. 30=A common complaint about the Fourth Step is that it makes us painfully conscious of our defects of character. We may be tempted to falter in our program of recovery. Th...
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JFT September 24 A growing concept of God
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The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves. We dont have to be religious to accept this idea. The point is that we open our minds to believe. Basic Text, p. 24 = In a lifelong process of coming to believe, our understanding of God will change. Th...
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JFT September 22 Keeping the gift
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Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift. Basic Text, p. 107 = Neglecting our recovery is like neglecting any other gift weve been given. Suppose someone gave you a new car. Would you let it sit in the driveway until the tires rotted? Would you just drive it, ignoring routine m...
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JFT September 23 Dealing with gossip
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In accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other. Basic Text, p. 11 = Lets face it: In Narcotics Anonymous, we live in a glass house of sorts. Our fellow members know more about our personal lives than anyone has ever known before. They kn...
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The two visibly active defects in my life !
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Hi.
My name is Raman an addict.
I want to share that the most visible defects in my life now is
laziness and anger.
Im lazy somehow or other and when i try and get out and be active, im getting angry.
Sometimes im thinking its because im single and at other times i attribute that
to the after effects of...
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JFT September 21 Prayer
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Prayer takes practice, and we should remind ourselves that skilled people were not born with their skills. Basic Text, p. 46 = Many of us came into recovery with no experience in prayer and worried about not knowing the right words. Some of us remembered the words wed learned in childhood but weren...
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JFT September 17 Going beyond Step Five
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We may think that we have done enough by writing about our past. We cannot afford this mistake.Basic Text, p. 32=Some of us arent too keen on writing out our Fourth Step; others take it to an obsessive extreme. To our sponsors growing dismay, we inventory ourselves again and again. We discover ev...
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A day clean is a day won !
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Hi all, my name is Raman and Im an addict ( thanks for letting me remind myself !!) A day clean is a day won. I spent Sunday morning with my daughter and we had lunch together and also watched "National Treasure". Nice time...... Then my daily walk, shower and Im ready to goto work. And, I had a...
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A great book to check out
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Memoirs Aren't Fairytales: A Story of Addiction by Marni Mann Just got done with it.... took me 1 day to read it bc I couldn't put it down. Its a book all of us can relate to! It will stick with you.... trust me. Her story is incredible
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JFT September 20 Courage to change
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Serenity Prayer = Recovery involves change, and change means doing things differently. The problem is, many of us resist doing things differently; what w...
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JFT September 19 Fellowship
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In NA, our joys are multiplied by sharing good days; our sorrows are lessened by sharing the bad. For the first time in our lives, we dont have to experience anything alone. IP No. 16, For the Newcomer = When we practice using the steps and the other tools of our program to work through our hardships, w...
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New video-voice chat meetings are available.
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Hello,we have video-voice chat meetings at navoices.com.They camn be found at http://yeechat.com/navoices.We do not use any information and say it is ours.Our forum can be found at http://navoices.com.All are welcome at these meetings,there is also text chat during these meetings.The meeti...
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Need help for my sister
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Hi everyone! I joined this site to can information and to talk about my little sister. My sister is 24 years old and recently her and her bf split up. This was her first love and they were together for 3 years. Well after the break up she moved back home and came out and told my family that she has been using he...
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Last nights meeting
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Last night at a meeting I heard a member, returning from a slip, explain his choice thusly: "Last night I got to the point where I was either going to blow my brains out or use; so I chose the non-fatal option." I find such comments frustrating. Truth be told, and in my opinion of course, every...
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JFT September 18 Honest relationships
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One of the most profound changes in our lives is in the realm of personal relationships.Basic Text, p. 57=Recovery gives many of us relationships that are closer and more intimate than any weve had before. As time passes, we find ourselves gravitating toward those who eventually become our frie...
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JFT September 16 Emotional balance
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Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our experience bears this out.Basic Text, p.47=Though each of us defines emotional balance a little differently, all of us must find it. Emotional balance can mean finding and maintaining a positive outlook on life, regardless o...
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Gaining Back Trust
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So I am 13 days clean and feeling pretty damn great about it, got great support from most of my family. Thats the problem... there are 2 very important people in my life, my father and boyfriend, that want this to "work" as quickl as possible and want to see a change right away. I told them I can o...
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JFT September 15 Filling the emptiness
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...we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, well be satisfied and everything will be alright.Basic Text, p. 80=In our addiction, we could never get enough drugs, or money, or sex, or anything else. Even too much was never enough! There was a spiritual emptiness in...
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