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Dave R


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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.

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Many of us come to Narcotics Anonymous full of regrets about our past.  Our steps help us begin to resolve those regrets.  We examine our lives, admit our wrongs, make amends for them, and sincerely try to change our behavior.  In doing so, we find a joyous sense of freedom.

No longer must we deny or regret our past.  Once we've made our amends, whats done is truly over and gone.  From that point on, where we come from ceases to be the most important thing about us.  Its where we are going that counts.

In NA, we begin to look forward.  True, we live and stay clean just for today.  But we find that we can begin to set goals, dream dreams, and look ahead to the joys a life in recovery has to offer.  Looking forward keeps us centered in where we are going, not remorseful or regretful about our past.  After all, it is hard to move forward if we are looking back.

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Just for today:  The steps have freed me from regrets over my past.  Today, I look forward to my new life in recovery.

 



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.....I'm halfway through my first -real- set of steps now,,,my step-group's taken ~8 months to get this far,which drives me nutz sometimes,,but I realize how subtle and powerful the 'alchemy' of the steps are and am grateful to be holding to the process.

...in this time,,I've realized just how important it is to surrender to the process--the more I try to keep 'business as usual' the more I'm holding onto my -own- will. I've now gotten to the stage that I've let go of many of the 'burdens of the past',,,and look forward to the magic of the process unfolding further.......it's a miracle indeed.....I look forward to fully finding a new way to live...one day at a time!!!

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Doing and writing the 12 Steps of NA , have freed me from my past . Many things I regret I did , but I have learned to change.As long as I keep moving forward in my recovery I'll be fine.

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