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JFT July 23 Surrendering self-will
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We want and demand that things always go our way. We should know from our past experience that our way of doing things did not work.Basic Text, p. 93=All of us have ideas, plans, goals for our lives. Theres nothing in the NA program that says we shouldnt think for ourselves, take initiative, and put...
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JFT July 22 Spiritual death
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For us, to use is to die, often in more ways than one.Basic Text, p. 82=As newcomers, many of us came to our first meeting with only a small spark of life remaining. That spark, our spirit, wants to survive. Narcotics Anonymous nurtures that spirit. The love of the fellowship quickly fans that spa...
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JFT July 21 Surrender is for everyone
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If, after a period of time, we find ourselves in trouble with our recovery, we have probably stopped doing one or more of the things that helped us in the earlier stages of our recovery.Basic Text, p. 95=Surrender is just for newcomers, right? Wrong!After weve been around awhile, some of us succum...
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Keeping it simple !
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short and simple,,, always the best !
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Just trying to talk to people who get it
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Hi, I am 27 years old and had been clean and sober for a little over 8 years. Before I was addicted to meth and it took me down some dark roads, I was homeless, spent time in jail and then went through 18 months of intense live in rehab. Since rehab I have not been to any meeting, however I turned my life comle...
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JFT July 20 Step One
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We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.Step One=The First Step begins with we, and theres a reason for that. There is great strength in making a verbal admission of our powerlessness. And when we go to meetings and make this admission, we ga...
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My husband is an addict. I need a sponsor
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My husband is an addict and I need someone to chat with online to help me get started. I do not use drugs or drink. He is dening that he is using right now. He quit two years ago. If I confront him, the fights will start again.
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Doubting everything
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I am having a bit of a crisis today and I inadvertently left my cell phone at home so I am posting this because all my numbers are in the phone and there is no meeting for me to get to soon. I will have 63 days clean today, though I've been coming around NA since November (I've had 2 relapses - one for 47 days and...
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looking for more connections to recovering addicts in surprise az.
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i have been here in surprise az. since the middle of march. i have already found a home group, ( A.I.R) Addicts in recovery and neet 4 times a week. but i am looking to meet more recovering addicts in the surprise area and i am intrested in starting a mtg in the area. i am a native san diegan. And i have been tau...
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keeping ffroit simple..
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gathered from my own experience.....
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JFT July 19 Fulfilling our dreams
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Dreams that we gave up long ago can now become realities.Basic Text, p. 71=All things begin with a dream. But how many of us fulfilled our dreams while using? Even if we managed to complete something we had started, our addiction usually robbed us of any pride in our accomplishment. Perhaps when...
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My puppy is really sick.....
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Out of nowhere my adorable cocker has developed a malignant tumor in her face. The vets have never seen anything like it. They told me that my job is to make her as comfortable as possible. Needless to say we are devastated. She is my first dog and I had no idea how much love we would develope for her. She's...
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trying to push out
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There is a person with double digit clean time who recently called me on the phone and threatened to whip my A#%, as the days went by people came out of the woodwork to inform me I'm not the first, and that this guy is a womanizer as well. I have really been considering putting this guy out on front street fo...
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JFT July 18 The gift of desparation
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Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until, in desperation, we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous.Basic Text, p. 13=When we think of being desperate, we envision an undesirable state: a poor, bedraggled soul frantically clawing at something sorely needed, a...
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JFT July 17 Using our "using dreams"
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Do we fully accept the fact that our every attempt to stop using or to control our using failed?Basic Text, p. 19=The room is dark. Your forehead is bathed in cold sweat. Your heart is racing. You open your eyes, sure that youve just blown your clean time. Youve had a using dream, and it was just lik...
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hello again....words from a friend
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In my continuing struggles to stay clean, i have always gotten great inspiration from a man named Steve Earle, he's been someone whose music and incredible will to leave and be better has grown to mean a lot in my life. several years ago, a friend of mine worked on Steve's website, they talked a lot, of...
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help
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How do I view the 10pm meeting? Thanks
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I was a mad hatter
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Lol, the 12 Contrasteps;
1. I declared that I had complete and total control over my drug use and that I can completely manage my life and still use drugs.
2. Came to know that I needed no one and that drugs would help me maintain my happiness and sanity
3. Made a decision to harness the benefits (as I...
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Is it normal for my recovering addict husband to be ignoring me and my kids??
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My husband is a recovering heroin addict. He was clean for almost 8 years until he just relapsed. Now he has 5 months clean and is a complete asshole. I kicked him out of our house in January and he went on a binge for about a month before getting sober. Now he is living in a sober house on a lake and going...
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JFT July 16 Self-esteem
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Deep inside, I had feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. =Somewhere along the way, many of us developed strong feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. Deep inside was a voice that continually cried out, Youre worthless! Many of us learn to recognize this characteristic of low self-estee...
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JFT July 15 Relations with others
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We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.Step Eight=All human beings struggle with self-centeredness. The chronic self-centeredness that lies at the very core of addiction makes that struggle doubly difficult for people like us. Many of us have l...
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Being Clean, playing my music !
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A concert I did on Saturday...great feeling !
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Dealing with a Chronic Illness in Recovery
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Hi Everyone, I am new to this forum and would love some input. I have been blessed to be clean in the Narcotics Anonymous program since October 17, 1998. Since September of last year, I have been dealing with a chronic, undiagnosed health condition. I have a few questions. Are there NA forums, maybe in t...
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JFT July 14 An "inside job"
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Social acceptability does not equal recovery.Basic Text, p. 22=One of the first things that happens to many of us in recovery is that we start to look better. We get healthier; we bathe; we dress more appropriately. And without the goading of active addiction, many of us finally stop stealing, l...
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JFT July 13 Humility in Action
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If we are hurting, and most of us do from time to time, we learn to ask for help.Basic Text, p. 83=Sometimes recovery gets downright difficult. It can be even more difficult to get humble enough to ask for help. We think, I have all this time clean. I should be better than this! But the reality of rec...
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JFT July 12 Patience
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We were trapped by our need for the instant gratification that drugs gave us.Basic Text, p. 25=I want what I want, and I want it now! Thats about as patient as most of us ever got in our active addiction. The obsession and compulsion of our disease gave us a one-track way of thinking; when we wanted so...
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My husband is the 'addict' and I'm a little angry, I think
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Not sure how to start here. If it's not one type of something it's another that he pulls out for a while. Then it seems to go into regression and then 'bam' he's slurry and ack again. I have to admit that he sure hid this from me. Really well. We'll be married 2yrs next month.. and wow. I had brothers who we...
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JFT July 11 Encouragement
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We share comfort and encouragement with others.Basic Text, p. 99=Many of us have watched as babies take their first steps. The mother holds the child on its feet. The father kneels nearby with outstretched arms, encouraging the little one, his face flooded with devotion. The baby takes a few s...
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Uh?
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So my sponsor and I have been working pretty closely. I have more "dry"? Time than her, but I figure if she knows more than I do, that's what matters, right? I just finished working my 90x90 and my cousin (has 6 years working the program) asked me to spend a few days with her at the beach house wit...
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JFT July 10 A positive attitude
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That old nest of negativism followed me everywhere I went.Basic Text, p. 137=A negative attitude is the trademark of active addiction. Everything that occurred in our lives was someone or something elses fault. We had blaming others for our shortcomings down to a fine science. In recovery, o...
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