Addiction & Recovery

happybird

(5,113 posts) Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:42 PM Dec 2022

Taking another try at NA

Just got home from a great women’s meeting. There is a regular meeting in the same spot tomorrow, I’m going to check it out.

I’m glad to be here and to be clean today. I am grateful for my family, my boss, her husband, and my coworkers. They don’t fully get it, but they couldn’t be more supportive. I truly fortunate to be so blessed.

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Taking another try at NA (Original Post) happybird Dec 2022 OP

Wishing you well! 3catwoman3 Dec 2022 #1

All the best to you!!! Karadeniz Dec 2022 #2

Keep at it Timewas Dec 2022 #3

Keep up the good work. It's incredibly difficult but you're doing great Walleye Dec 2022 #4

Good for you! nightwing1240 Dec 2022 #5

What is N A ? Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2022 #6

Narcotics Anonymous? Just a guess. calimary Dec 2022 #7

Narcotics Anonymous Quemado Dec 2022 #9

Here orangecrush Dec 2022 #11

Thank you!!!! Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2022 #12

Most welcome! orangecrush Dec 2022 #16

28 years sober in AA here . Permanut Dec 2022 #8

8 years here orangecrush Dec 2022 #10

Sending love to you! Hope22 Dec 2022 #13

Good for you. Wishing you all the best. niyad Dec 2022 #14

13 years sober in AA here, my second meeting was a women's meeting, too Rhiannon12866 Dec 2022 #15

K & R In 1979 I went to a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous. I weighed about 200, Stuart G Dec 2022 #17

3catwoman3

(25,433 posts)

1. Wishing you well!

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:46 PM

Dec 2022

Karadeniz

(23,417 posts)

2. All the best to you!!!

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:48 PM

Dec 2022

Timewas

(2,291 posts)

3. Keep at it

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 09:18 PM

Dec 2022

One day at a time

Walleye

(35,661 posts)

4. Keep up the good work. It's incredibly difficult but you're doing great

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 09:39 PM

Dec 2022

nightwing1240

(1,996 posts)

5. Good for you!

Reply to happybird (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:21 PM

Dec 2022

Best wishes and am glad you have support.

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

6. What is N A ?

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:24 PM

Dec 2022

calimary

(84,310 posts)

7. Narcotics Anonymous? Just a guess.

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:26 PM

Dec 2022

Otherwise, I’m stumped.

Quemado

(1,262 posts)

9. Narcotics Anonymous

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:31 PM

Dec 2022

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotics_Anonymous

orangecrush

(21,789 posts)

11. Here

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:50 PM

Dec 2022

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

12. Thank you!!!!

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:53 PM

Dec 2022

orangecrush

(21,789 posts)

16. Most welcome!

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Tue Dec 20, 2022, 05:02 AM

Dec 2022

Permanut

(6,636 posts)

8. 28 years sober in AA here .

Reply to happybird (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:31 PM

Dec 2022

Extremely difficult at first, easier with time. I happen to know that you can do this, one day at a time.

orangecrush

(21,789 posts)

10. 8 years here

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:41 PM

Dec 2022

You just made my day brighter.

You CAN DO IT!!!

Hope22

(2,846 posts)

13. Sending love to you!

Reply to happybird (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 11:16 PM

Dec 2022

💗💗💗💗🙏💐

niyad

(119,895 posts)

14. Good for you. Wishing you all the best.

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 11:26 PM

Dec 2022

Rhiannon12866

(222,072 posts)

15. 13 years sober in AA here, my second meeting was a women's meeting, too

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Tue Dec 20, 2022, 12:56 AM

Dec 2022

And that's where I met my sponsor, a wonderful woman who took me to meetings and told me what to do. And earlier tonight I led a meeting myself where someone came in for the first time. That's what works, paying it forward, and meeting with others who've been there and understand. Kudos on your sobriety and the willingness to reach out to others who understand and can help. You can do it if I did...

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)

17. K & R In 1979 I went to a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous. I weighed about 200,

Reply to happybird (Original post)

Wed Dec 21, 2022, 12:42 AM

Dec 2022

In the end of the meeting, they held hands and said something like a prayer. So...I thought they were NUTS!!

So, I was sure that I could lose the weight myself...Over the summer, I was on vacation..(that is when I went to the meeting)
so, I lost a lot of weight in the summer. When my job started in September, (I was a high school teacher) I started eating
again, and again, and again. I gained all the weight back.

Next summer I weighed 216, and I am 5 foot 6 and one half. ...So, I tried Overeaters Anonymous again. I took off all the weight
that I had gained, and I kept it off for more than 40 years. Today I weigh 152.

............. Overeaters Anonymous saved my life....I pray every day, and try to stay in touch with some members of the
program. I need to go to meetings again, but these times are tough for me. Masks, Covid, Meetings with lots of people &
so on. Yes, I pray every day, and am at a normal weight. I am very lucky to be alive.

.....Try a 12 Step Meeting like AA, NA, OA or whatever. If you don't like that meeting, go to another meeting. There are
usually plenty of meetings in an area. The key is very simple.... ..........DON'T EVER GIVE UP......!!!!

....You would think that it is EASY.. Well, it isn't. Life is not easy, and changing one's life is not easy. I think about
the 12 Step program every day, and many times a day. I have met some wonderful people at the meetings. Give it a try,
and please..........DON'T GIVE UP....(i am in my 70s and I didn't give up...Thanks for reading this.

Stuart G

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