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Secrets revealed?
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I have a secret. I haven't hurt anyone else, and other than making me feel like a freak, it's not physically or spiritually damaging. Do I have to reveal it? It's incredibly embarassing. I'm not sure if telling someone would help me or hurt me more. If it's not ethically wrong, there isn't really a need t...
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Lost and Lonely
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Im a 41 yr old woman and I have been battling with addiction for at least 20 years. This past September, almost a year ago, I got clean again. I did well and felt pretty good about my future. This past April I slipped and took 3 of my moms painkillers from her recent surgery. The truth is it felt like usin...
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JFT August 28 The light of exposure
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These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure.Basic Text, p.32=The Fifth Step asks us to share our true nature with God, with ourselves, and with another human being. It doesnt encourage us to tell everyone every little secret about ourselves. It doesnt ask us to disclose to the w...
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JFT August 27 Choosing life
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Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary.Basic Text, p. 15=Active addiction is a smoldering death-wish. Each of us courted death every time we used. Our lifestyles, too, put us at risk. The life of an addict is sold cheaply with every day and every dose.In recovery, the...
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LOOKING FOR A SPONSOR - My qualifications to be sponsored
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Looking for a sponsor, here are my qualifications to be sponsored, I'm a young stand up individual who enjoys chemistry, programming, and learning how to do so with efficiency. I have definitely lost a few brain cells on the way but I've come to learn my boundries as well as any person can. I am loyal, cr...
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JFT August 24 Seeking God's will
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We learn to be careful of praying for specific things.Basic Text, p. 46=In our active addiction, we usually did not pray for knowledge of Gods will for us and the power to carry it out. On the contrary, most of our prayers were for God to get us out of the mess we had made for ourselves. We expected mira...
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JFT August 26 Tenth Step inventory
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We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.Step Ten=A daily Tenth Step keeps us on a sound spiritual footing. While each member asks different questions, some questions have been found to be helpful to almost everyone. Two key Tenth Step questions are,...
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JFT August 25 The Ninth Step-Reclaiming Life
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We are achieving freedom from the wreckage of our past.Basic Text, p. 42=When we start the Ninth Step, weve reached an exciting stage in our recovery. The damage done in our lives is what led many of us to seek help in the first place. Now, we have a chance to clean up that wreckage, amend our past, and...
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I want to join an online meeting but Java will not run on my computer.
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I'm completly computer illiterate so please dont be a jerk. Also are there any skype meetings?
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Lonely Chat
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WOW is this chat lonely. I'm the only one! Looking to chat about NA, Science experiments, or programming? Get in here. being the only one sucks. It is possible, however, that I'm joining completely wrong and just making a fool of myself :/
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I Have Found A Reason!
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Hi. My name is Star and I am an addict. I just wanted to share this prayer with all of you. It really touched me and put a smile on my face. Thought it might some of you, as well. Because of my Higher Power, my life is changing, for the better, each and every day... And I now have a purpose! Much Love! <3I've F...
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I have truely out done myself
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i am truely a terrible person. thats all i have to say. I dont feel like explaining myself.
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i need help
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I have been in and out of the program for the last four years. I had one year then recently one year again. I relapsed in April and thought I could manage with justification and since I wasn't doing my drug of choice I continued. Until this last weekend I met up with old friends and ended up doing things whic...
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JFT August 23 Decision-making
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Before we got clean, most of our actions were guided by impulse. Today, we are not locked into this type of thinking.Basic Text, p. 90=Life is a series of decisions, actions, and consequences. When we were using, our decisions were usually driven by our disease, resulting in self-destructive a...
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JFT August 22 Contribution
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We recognize our spiritual growth when we are able to reach out and help others.Basic Text, p. 58=To make a difference in the world, to contribute something special, is perhaps the highest aspiration of the human heart. Each one of us, no matter what our personal makeup, has a unique quality to off...
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JFT August 21 Friendships
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Our friendships become deep, and we experience the warmth and caring which results from addicts sharing recovery and a new life.IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance=Most of us come to Narcotics Anonymous with few genuine friends. And most of us arrive without the slightest understanding of what it take...
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Drunks in NA
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It is wrong to get an AA talker running NA.
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JFT August 19 First things first
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We apply effort to our most obvious problems and let go of the rest. We do the job at hand and, as we progress, new opportunities for improvement present themselves.Basic Text, p. 56=Its been said that recovery is simpleall weve got to change is everything! That can seem a pretty tall order, espec...
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JFT August 20 Facing death
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Often we have to face some type of crisis during our recovery, such as the death of a loved one...Basic Text, p. 102=Every life has a beginning and an end. However, when someone we love a great deal reaches the end of their life, we may have a very hard time accepting their sudden, final absence. Our g...
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JFT August 17 Tell the truth
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A symptom of our disease is alienation, and honest sharing will free us to recover.Basic Text, p. 83=Truth connects us to life while fear, isolation, and dishonesty alienate us from it. As using addicts, we hid as much of the truth about ourselves from as much of the world as we possibly could. Our...
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Really Needing Experience, Strength and Hope
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Maybe I'm just bitching, but be that as it may, I'm struggling immensely with a threat to my recovery lately. My roommate and I have been struggling since I got into recovery to resolve our issues, or rather, I've been struggling to resolve things with him and he is apparently unwilling, but doesn't wa...
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JFT August 16 Up or down
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This is our road to spiritual growth. We change every day.... This growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer.Basic Text, pp. 37=Our spiritual condition is never static; if its not growing, its decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress will lose its upward momentum....
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JFT August 18 "How long do I have to go?"
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The way to remain a productive, responsible member of society is to put our recovery first.Basic Text, p. 106=The meetings have been great! Each night weve attended, weve gathered with other addicts to share experience, strength, and hope. And each day, weve used what weve learned in the meeti...
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18 years!
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Well this day is coming to a close for me and dare I say that there are many moments in the past year that I wasn't sure my journey would make it to this hour... but it has and by the grace of my God I'll be clean another day. I am very happy and encouraged about my future and most importantly my son's. Just quic...
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moving on in life fro the better (quick update)
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still alive and doing well have been getting out in the real worls instead of stuck in my apt i never thought i would catcha glace at the real me again bu i am coming back slowly its refreshing finally moving on Fear no longer confines me i have anxity issues and poor socail skils but other then tht i am ok I a...
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How do you study the literature?
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Sorry for posting so much, I really don't have a life, so I make NA my life. I'm just curious how everyone else studies the literature. Lately I've been going through the basic text and highlighting different points in different colors (JFT in blue, spiritual principles in pink, orange for things to w...
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JFT August 15 Over time, not overnight
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We found that we do not recover physically, mentally, or spiritually overnight.Basic Text, p. 28=Have you ever approached a recovery celebration with the feeling that you should be further along in your recovery than you are? Maybe you have listened to newcomers sharing in meetings, members w...
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higher power
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i have seen and heard many members share their belief in their higher power. but nobody has defined or explained higher power to me in clear terms. can anyone help me? i am doing my second step but don"t have the concept of higher power very clear in my mind
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JFT August 14 Letting go of our limitations
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We dont have to settle for the limitations of the past. We can examine and reexamine our old ideas.Basic Text, p. 11=Most of us come to the program with a multitude of self-imposed limitations that prevent us from realizing our full potential, limitations that impede our attempts to find the valu...
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JFT August 8 Responsible recovery
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...we accept responsibility for our problems and see that were equally responsible for our solutions.Basic Text, p. 97=Some of us, well accustomed to leaving our personal responsibilities to others, may attempt the same behavior in recovery. We quickly find out it doesnt work.For instance,...
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