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JFT August 10 Regular prayer and meditation
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Most of us pray when we are hurting. We learn that if we pray regularly, we wont be hurting as often or as intensely.Basic Text, p. 45=Regular prayer and meditation are two more key elements in our new pattern of living. Our active addiction was more than just a bad habit waiting to be broken by force o...
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Another Year Clean
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It is with great gratitude that I report July 25th marked 23 years, thanks to my family of choice. Sorry I'm a couple weeks late with this. I almost let it slide by.
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home not so sweet home.
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well im back from my adventure to africa. it was awesome. and now im home. my sister stole my car. child services took my niece from my sister. my mom hasnt talked to me for 4 weeks because of my tattoos. i knew there was a reason i didnt want to come home.
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JFT August 9 The power of love
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We begin to see that Gods love has been present all the time, just waiting for us to accept it.Basic Text, p. 47=Gods love is the transforming power that drives our recovery. With that love, we find freedom from the hopeless, desperate cycle of using, self-hatred, and more using. With that love, w...
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I do not need the Mayor of Boston to tell me wher to dine
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In recovery we have freedom so lets all go out for a chicken meal.
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JFT August 7 The gratitude list
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We focus on anything that isnt going our way and ignore all the beauty in our lives.Basic Text, p. 80=Its easy to be grateful when everything runs smoothly. If we get a raise at work, were grateful. If we get married, were grateful. If someone surprises us with a nice present or an unasked favor, we...
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JFT August 6 The joy within
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Since the beginning of our recovery, we have found that joy doesnt come from material things but from within ourselves.Basic Text, p. 107=Some of us came to Narcotics Anonymous impoverished by our disease. Everything wed owned had been lost to our addiction. Once we got clean, we put all our ene...
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JFT August 5 The shape of our thoughts
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By shaping our thoughts with spiritual ideals, we are freed to become who we want to be.Basic Text, p. 105=Addiction shaped our thoughts in its own way. Whatever their shape may once have been, they became misshapen once our disease took full sway over our lives. Our obsession with drugs and self...
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JFT August 4 When is a secret not a secret?
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Addicts tend to live secret lives.... It is a great relief to get rid of all our secrets and to share the burden of our past.Basic Text, p. 33=Weve heard it said that were as sick as our secrets. What do we keep secret, and why?We keep secret those things that cause us shame. We may hold onto such thing...
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Pot smokers from Cambridge drive me nutty,
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What is it about pot smokers telling use about recovery? The next thing we have methadonians running the group.
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Sponsorship needed.. Buffalo/Amherst NY
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I am fairly new. At least to NA not so much AA. I live in Amherst NY. Any chance someone (FEMALE) lives out here that would want to sponsor me? I do not have a car and I am brand new to this state. I haven't made a meeting yet. Thanks
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JFT August 3 Trusting people
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Many of us would have had nowhere else to go if we could not have trusted NA groups and members.Basic Text, p. 84=Trusting people is a risk. Human beings are notoriously forgetful, unreliable, and imperfect. Most of us come from backgrounds where betrayal and insensitivity among friends were c...
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Sponsorship...
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When i first got clean and needed a sponser,i became blessed,as i listened to theses speakers speak,one guy caught my ear/eye and after th meetibg,,,HE Walked up to me and said"My vibe tells me you and i have a connection....He was huge,A Vietnam vet and an addict for years,he invited me to coff...
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JFT August 2 Practicing honesty
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When we feel trapped or pressured, it takes great spiritual and emotional strength to be honest.Basic Text, p. 85=Many of us try to wiggle out of a difficult spot by being dishonest, only to have to humble ourselves later and tell the truth. Some of us twist our stories as a matter of course, even wh...
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JFT August 1 Freedom from guilt
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Our addiction enslaved us. We were prisoners of our own mind and were condemned by our own guilt.Basic Text, p. 7=Guilt is one of the most commonly encountered stumbling blocks in recovery. One of the more notorious forms of guilt is the self-loathing that results when we try to forgive ourselve...
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This mental obsession is so scary ---->pls
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Want to say hi everyone this is my first post here. I do hope I'm posting in the right area. My name is Brian and I'm and addict. Heroin is my drug of choice, and I been usinf for about 3 years. Always had an addictive personality. With heroin I never had those nightmare withdrawals I heard about just the chi...
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JFT July 31 Freedom from active addiction
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Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise and that is freedom from active addiction, the solution that eluded us for so long.Basic Text, p. 106=NA offers no promises other than freedom from active addiction. It is true that some of our members meet with financial success in recovery. They bu...
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Earthgroup !
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Earthgroup is revived. It is a great sharing space and has been in my recovery as a good add on.. After MIP, I rate Earthgroup as very good for online ecovery. They are especially good in matters of sponsorship and online meetings. They will be at the following address= http://www.1na.org/
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6 years now of depending on a higher power to save me......
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Meditation for the Day If you believe that God's grace has saved you, then you must believe that He is meaning to save you yet more and to keep you in the way that you should go. Even a human rescuer would not save you from drowning only to place you in other deep and dangerous waters. Rather, he would place y...
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from a poetic mind
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You look at me and wonder why so sad? just glad someone noticed me as i was going mad No one ever asks why I feel so bad. for fear they will wake the monster whom resides here You seemed to have misunderstood as I told what I could. Dying to belong...has it really been that long? Years feel like minutes, yet th...
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JFT July 30 Regular inventory
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Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, attitudes, and relationships on a regular basis.Basic Text, p. 42=Taking a regular inventory is a key element in our new pattern of living. In our addiction, we examined ourselves as little a...
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JFT July 29 Expectations
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As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving.Basic Text, p. 39=Our behavior toward other people in our life is a mirror of our behavior toward ourselves. When we demand perfection of ourselves, we come to demand it from others around us, too. As we strive to repair and heal our...
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Looking for the support i need to stay clean and happy
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Hi All, its time i got out of my own way and put myself out there for the benifit of staying clean and building a life free from the temtations of druds and everthing that comes with them, i have found being claen is a wonderful thing but i have also found myself very lonely and in urgent need of friends and su...
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JFT July 28 Secrets and intimacy
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We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected.Basic Text, p. 32=Having relationships without barriers, ones in which we can be entirely open with our feelings, is something many of us desire. At the same time, the possibility of such intimacy causes us more f...
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JFT July 27 We do recover
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After coming to NA, we found ourselves among a very special group of people who have suffered like us and found recovery. In their experiences, freely shared, we found hope for ourselves. If the program worked for them, it would work for us.Basic Text, p. 10=A newcomer walks into his or her first m...
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JFT July 26 Unconditional surrender
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Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat. This can be frightening, but it is the foundation on which we have built our lives.Basic Text, p. 22=Most of us have tried everything we can think of, exerted every ounce of force possible, to fill the spiritual hole inside us. ...
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Im very new
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Im not sure if i even belong here...But i cannot stop taking ampetmines..as in adderall..i would majorly overtake them and it dominated my life..anyone relate?i need help
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Sharing a few thoughts!
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I taking a moment to look at the life story Ive created for myself on an ongoing basis. When I am feeling peaceful about the past, this gives me self-confidence and trust in in my ability to handle whatever comes my way. I feel Higher Powered. Im looking at circumstances through the 12 Step framework, an...
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JFT July 25 Twelfth Step "failure"?
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Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.Step Twelve=There is no such thing as a failed Twelfth Step call. Even if our prospect doesnt get clean, we have accomplished two purposes. W...
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JFT July 24 The masks have to go
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...we covered low self-esteem by hiding behind phony images that we hoped would fool people. The masks have to go.Basic Text, p. 33=Over-sensitivity, insecurity, and lack of identity are often associated with active addiction. Many of us carry these with us into recovery; our fears of inadequ...
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