Do we fully accept the fact that our every attempt to stop using or to control our using failed?”
Basic Text, p. 19
Our hope is renewed throughout our recovery. Each time something new is revealed to us about our disease, the pain of that realization is accompanied by a surge of hope.
—NA Step Working Guides, Step Two, “Hope”
“Deep inside, I had feelings of inadequacy and inferiority.”
In service, we listen well by listening for common ground rather than for ways to prove that our idea is better.
—Guiding Principles, Tradition Four, “In Service”
“We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.”
Step Eight
If there was anything in our lives that required a regular commitment, chances are that we only followed through if it wasn’t too hard, if it didn’t get in the way of our self‐indulgence, or if we happened to feel like it.
—NA Step Working Guides, Step Ten, “Spiritual Principles”
“Social acceptability does not equal recovery.”
Basic Text, p. 22
just for today you gottawanna live in love and forgiveness.
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