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JFT June 29 Keeping recovery fresh
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Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases.Basic Text, p. 84=After the first couple of years in recovery, most of us start to feel like there are no more big deals. If weve been diligent in working the steps, the p...
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spouse of new recovering addict
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Is it "normal" for my spouse to assume that everyone that has a beer or two at a party is an addict? He's about 3 weeks into the NA program. thanks
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JFT June 28 Group conscience
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Working with others is only the beginning of service work.Basic Text, p. 59=Service work calls for a selfless devotion to carrying the message to the still-suffering addict. But our attitude of service cannot stop there. Service also requires that we look at ourselves and our motives. Our ef...
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Retrain your brain.
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You wouldn't think it, but everytime I hit a speaker meeting, I leave feeling like using. I know it's not the rooms... It's me. It's that my brain doesn't want to remember the hospitalizations. But does anyone know how to overcome this?
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JFT June 26 Surrendering self-will
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Our fears are lessened and faith begins to grow as we learn the true meaning of surrender. We are no longer fighting fear, anger, guilt, self-pity, or depression.Basic Text, p. 27=Surrender is the beginning of a new way of life. When driven primarily by self-will, we constantly wondered whethe...
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June 27 Change and growth
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When someone points out a shortcoming, our first reaction may be defensive. There will always be room for growth.Basic Text, p. 36=Recovery is a process that brings about change in our lives. We need that change if we are to continue our growth toward freedom. Its important that we remain open-...
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JFT June 25 Not just lucky
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The process of coming to believe restores us to sanity. The strength to move into action comes from this belief.Basic Text, p. 25=Coming to believe is a process that stems from personal experience. Each of us has this experience; all addicts who find recovery in NA have solid evidence of a benevo...
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June 24 Tolerance
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...ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.Tradition Twelve=Sometimes its hard to accept others character defects. As we recover together, we not only listen to others talk in meetings, we also watch how they walk through their recovery. The more we get to know other memb...
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Easier this way.
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This is juniper, i think it's easier to just have my board name my real name, so it is now
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JFT June 23 Surrender
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We didnt stumble into this fellowship brimming with love, honesty, open-mindedness, or willingness.... When we were beaten, we became willing.Basic Text, p. 20=Surrender may be the necessary foundation for recovery, but sometimes we fight it. Most of us look back after some clean time and w...
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Belly Button Anniversary!
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June 2nd 1984,6 months before my total and final surrender, I married my third wife,my true love and soul mate.Today,through God's grace and mercy we celebrate 28 years together,27 and 1/2 of them clean, in sobriety and free from active addiction and 30 total years together.I love her more today...
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mix of emotions
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I received a phone call yesterday from a hospital. My father for whom I haven't seen in 15 years is there on life support and brain dead. They needed his next of kin to consent to remove him. For years I have sat and thought about this day. From every angle I've plotted my revenge on him. Thinking of the vari...
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Rational Recovery and meditation Boston
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I know about this topic and want to start a Meditaion group with new comers in Boston. (Your place small fee)
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Starting Step One
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Hello. This will be my first time going through the steps, and I am starting Step One as of today. I am working them with my sponsor of course, my first task is to read Step One out of the Basic Text and It Works How and Why every day for 30 days. Does anybody have any personal expierience with this step? What d...
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Recovery quotes
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Care anybody ???
care to share recovery quotes ???
heres one related to changing old places, old playmates and old playgrounds !!=
hang around a barber shop sometime,,,, and shawnuff youll get a haircut,,,
(wheter you intented to or not to begin with)
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NA Quotes
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1- It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it. 2- If you're looking to have an image in NA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress. 3- An addict is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating. 4- addiction is the leading cause of rel...
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NEWCOMER NEEDING DESPERATE HELP
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Hiya my name is andrea and i am an addict with 3 1/2 months clean. I am really in a desperate state and i am needing help. Both my children got murdered on sunday and my whole world has fallen apart I am broken and lost of course because i am an addict my addiction is telling me to use BUT i dont want to i need you g...
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Need a sponsor that understands disability?
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My name is Maggy and i have a huge issue. I wil be one year sober in August of this year, but without a sponsor im not sure i will make it. this whole year of my sobriety, my first ever, i cannot find a sponser that can work with me. i have a panic dissorder and im terrified of talking on the phone. i cant find a spo...
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Relapse & Recovery
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I thought I was a strong soul. I thought I had this shit licked. I got cocky in my recovery and relasped 3 days ago on Meth. I would had almost 3 years clean. I am hitting a meeting today, but am so disappointed in myself. I eat good, work out, have a good life. I don't want to lose all this. HELP.
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I need advice on how to get out of a unhealthy living situation
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Hi everyone, i have no urge to driink/use at the moment, but my current living arrangement is unhealthy in the way that I am experiencing a lot of verbal and mental abuse from my Mother. She is so angry at me, (with every right) she told me meetings were just a way to meet men to have sex with, and find peopl...
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Why some people clean and claim to be serene for several decades still manipulate and live at the earnings of new comers
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I ve seen , that some addicts who procalim and claim to be clean and serene for years together, they claim they are in recovery and they even claim they are recovering addicts, still are found to be conning, manipulating the innocent new comers in a class room in bangalore...they do online meetings, wh...
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The Right To Live Your Life Free but Homeless Bostonian
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I try to put my past behind me but my PO thinks I should "Register" when I move and not live near schools. This Massachuaaeta Law is unconstitutional but friends in NA give me help. I am Mark available for sponsorship. Let me show u the way! -- Edited by To Far Gone on Saturday 31st of March 2012 0...
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Any Recovery in Boston?
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Hey Family, i haven't been around in awhile. i posted a few months ago about being confused and wanting to find a new sponsor. and its sort of mixed news since i ended up drinking, but now i have 4 months and a new sponsor who i'm working really well with. but i guess the real question i have is that i'm going t...
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JFT June 22 Accepting life as it is
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In our recovery, we find it essential to accept reality. Once we can do this, we do not find it necessary to use drugs in an attempt to change our perceptions.Basic Text, p. 90=Drugs used to buffer us from the full force of life. When we stop using drugs and enter recovery, we find ourselves confront...
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caos
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I ahd a few days of clean time put together, worked hard at getting my RN license back after a felony conviction got a car, and had a great interview scheduled. two days before the interview, I was taking care of some business, and my disease told me that i could have a drink. I'll spare all the details, but...
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Peel your onions
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So, on the premise that our disease (I picture it as golum from lord of the rings) is smarter/faster/stronger than we are... What things have you been guilty of substituting your drugs for.
As in... Character defects? Like this "I'm not using drugs anymore, but I still beat up my brother when I...
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hey.
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hey everyone. ive been pretty good. had a sisters weekend this weekend in columbus, did a lot of shopping and eating and spending way too much money. of course there was a gay pride festival going on at the same time. it was great entertainment. but now im having a rough night. [video=http://www.yout...
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JFT June 21 New levels of honesty
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We have been experts at self-deception and rationalization.Basic Text, p. 28=When we come to our first meeting and hear that we must be honest, we may think, Well now, that shouldnt be too difficult. All I have to do is stop lying. To some of us, this comes easily. We no longer have to lie to our empl...
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JFT June 20 Meditation for beginners
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For some, prayer is asking for God's help; meditation is listening for Gods answer.... Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us.Basic Text, pp. 46-47=Be patient when youre learning to meditate, many of us were told. It takes p...
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Things coming together
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Hello and blessings of the day! Today we finally got our Florida licenses after waiting for my Birth certificate to come back from NewYork.Somewhere in the "storm" I lost it.Reregistered our cars few weeks ago and settling in in the over 55 community LEISUREVILLE(check that monicker hu...
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