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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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JFT September 14 Secrets are reservations
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Eventually we are shown that we must get honest, or we will use again.Basic Text, p. 85=Everyone has secrets, right? Some of us have little secrets, items that would cause only minor embarrassment if found out. Some of us have big secrets, whole areas of our lives cloaked in thick, murky darkness...
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JFT September 13 Something different
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We had to have something different, and we thought we had found it in drugs.Basic Text, p. 13=Many of us have always felt different from other people. We know were not unique in feeling that way; we hear many addicts share the same thing. We searched all our lives for something to make us all right, t...
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JFT September 12 New horizons
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My life is well-rounded and I am becoming a more comfortable version of myself, not the neurotic, boring person that I thought Id be without drugs. =Is there really life without drugs? Newcomers are sure that they are destined to lead a humdrum existence once they quit using. That fear is far fro...
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Health issues..............
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So out of the blue my vision went from 20/20 to 20/30. Went to see my eye doctor, and ended up with many more questions then answers. I am diabetic, so he's been watching me closely anyway. But I feel so let down, cause I constantly monitor myself, am very active, and felt I was years away from...problems...
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JFT September 11 Bend with the wind
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We learn to become flexible... As new things are revealed, we feel renewed.Basic Text, p. 102=Flexibility was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. Wed become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the softer, subtler, more infinitely varied pleasures o...
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JFT September 10 More powerful than words
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We learn that a simple, loving hug can make all the difference in the world...Basic Text, p. 91=Perhaps there have been times in our recovery when we were close to someone who was in great pain. We struggled with the question, What can I do to make them feel better? We felt anxious and inadequate to r...
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September 9 Feet of clay
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One of the biggest stumbling blocks to recovery seems to be placing unrealistic expectations on... others.Basic Text, p. 82=Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. By comparison, the recovering addicts we meet at meetings may seem almost superhumanl...
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i need an sober addict to talk to
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Hi everyone. i am a drinking (polytox) addict, familiar with NA and cannot leave my apartment anymore. I need to contact someone sober- Can anyone help? Ty very mich Serge
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Look to this day !
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Look to this day,
for it is life, the very life of life.
And in its brief course lie all the realities and verities (truths) of existence.
For yestrday is but a dream and tommorow is only a vision,
but today well lived,
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
and every tommorow a vision of hope....
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JFT September 8 Rebellion
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We need not lose faith when we become rebellious.Basic Text, p. 35=Many of us have lived our entire lives in revolt. Our initial response to any type of direction is often negative. Automatic rejection of authority seems to be a troubling character defect for many addicts.A thorough self-exam...
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Making New Friends
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Id like to get some suggestions about where to meet new people. Im not really wanting or needing a relationship in terms of a woman in my life. I would like to meet people that i can just go do activities with. In my homegroup, there arent many people my age, and ive looked over and over but i cant find many ac...
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JFT September 6 Regular meeting attendance
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We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean.Basic Text, p. 9=The NA program gives us a new pattern of living. One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance. For the newcomer, living clean is a brand-new expe...
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JFT September 7 Resentment and forgiveness
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Where there has been wrong, the program teaches us the spirit of forgiveness.Basic Text, p. 12=In NA, we begin to interact with the world around us. We no longer live in isolation. But freedom from isolation has its price: The more we interact with people, the more often well find someone steppi...
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JFT September 5 Not hopelessly bad
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We find that we suffer from a disease, not a moral dilemma. We were critically ill, not hopelessly bad.Basic Text, p. 16=For many of us, Narcotics Anonymous was the answer to a personal puzzle of long standing. Why did we always feel alone, even in a crowd, we wondered? Why did we do so many crazy, self...
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JFT September 4 Cluttered spirits
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We try to remember that when we make amends we are doing it for ourselves.Basic Text, p. 41=As long as we still owe amends, our spirits are cluttered with things we dont need. Were carrying the extra load of an apology owed, a resentment held, or unexpressed remorse. Its like having a messy house. We c...
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What a great night!!!
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Last Wednesday night at the meeting, several of us celebrated clean-date anniversaries... a 4 yr, 7 yr, 8 yr, 15 yr, and a 22 yr... for a grand total of 56 YEARS of combined recovery from addiction!!! NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS ROCKS!!!!!
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update
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well my sister tried to kill herself yesterday and she is now in the hospital for observation. we have tried to help her in every way possible but she doesnt want any of it. sorry i cant help her if she doesnt want to help herself. i cried today. the first time ive cried in years. thinking that i could have lo...
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JFT September 2 Higher powered
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Daily practice of our Twelve Step program enables us to change from what we were to people guided by a Higher Power.Basic Text, p. 86=Who have we been, and who have we become? There are a couple of ways to answer this question. One is very simple: We came to Narcotics Anonymous as addicts, our addictio...
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JFT September 1 Real values
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We become able to make wise and loving decisions based on principles and ideals that have real value in our lives.Basic Text, p. 105=Addiction gave us a certain set of values, principles we applied in our lives. You pushed me, one of those values told us, so I pushed back, hard. Its mine was another valu...
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Happy World Unity Day !yyy
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JFT August 31 Gratitude
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Hopeless living problems have become joyously changed. Our disease has been arrested, and now anything is possible.Basic Text, p. 106=The NA program has given us more freedom than we ever dreamed possible. Sometimes, though, in the daily routine, we lose track of how much weve been given. Ho...
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Discovering Yourself
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HI, My name is Chad, and im an addict. I haavnt been in NA long, and today is my 60 day mark. I have a sponsor, and am working the steps. I just began step four. Since my recovery began, i knew that if i wanted it to work, that i i had to change completely. THe only things i have from my old life now are my job, and my...
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JFT August 30 Doing good, feeling good
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We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that weve been doing better than weve been feeling.Basic Text, p.43=The way we treat others often reveals our own state of being. When we are at peace, were most likely to treat others with respect and compassion. However, when were...
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relationship issues PLEASE HELP!!!
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I have been in a relationship for 6 years with an active AA recoverer. I am in NA.... so we both are working programs and "changing". We live together. This weekend he says to me out of the blue..... "I think we should take 6 months off so we can work our programs. He is 5 1/2 months sobe...
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JFt August 29 Don't look back
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The steps offer a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse. Our futures are changed because we dont have to avoid those who we have harmed. As a result... we receive a new freedom that can end isolation.Basic Text, p. 39=Many of us come to Narcotics Anonymous full of regrets about our p...
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