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12 Step Community The 12 Step Community is comprised of many anonymous programs. Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous, Al Anon, Nar Anon, just to name a few. 12 Step Recovery started in 2007 as an idea and has now grown to have many members throughout the world. We are excited to invite you to join our 12 Step Community and begin to meet each other and have conversations via NA chat or AA chat. We also have the ability for anyone in any 12 step fellowship to maintain their personal recovery blog. Our 12 Step Forum is a place to share opinions thoughts and ideas. In today's technology, a 12 Step Community is not fun without the ability to set up individual profiles with pictures and videos.

Membership is FREE. We look forward to meeting you online.


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12 Step Forum An internet forum or message board is an online discussion. Those of us who are active in the 12 Step Fellowship are familiar with being in the rooms sharing our experience, strength, and hope of recovery. The Forum on 12 Step Recovery is designed for all to see and only members of the 12 Step Community to be able to post threads (which are online and ongoing discussions) and comment on other peoples discussions. We look forward to seeing you in the forum.


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12 Step Chat Our Chat feature is designed for members only. When you set your profile up as a member, you will be able to cruise around the site while chatting with your friends. One of the coolest features is that you can chat with your friends, or meet new ones from all over the world. The internet allows those of us in recovery to chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime. So invite your friends and chat for a while. Looking forward to talking to you soon.


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12 Step Blogs In the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous and the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, as with all 12 Step Fellowships, we are thought early on to journal. A blog is like a personal website that is maintained by one person sharing their thoughts and feelings with regular entries. Being a part of the 12 Step Recovery Community allows you to have a personal blog, and in addition to writing and sharing events, you can share pictures of yourself and things that you like to do and also share videos. Most Blogs will have a combination of your likes, dislikes, events you attend, and anything else you feel like sharing from a written perspective. Looking forward to hearing your story.


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12 Steps | Step 3 - Step 4 - Step 5

More Members Share Their Ideas On The Twelve Steps 

 

Of the 12 Steps of NA, Step 3 involves another one of the most difficult things a human can do: Allowing our lives and will to be taken out of our hands. The exact step states: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

      Let's take a closer look at what this means. After acknowledging the problem, and accepting that we need help from a higher power, we now have to give up control to this higher power. And that's not the easiest thing for a person to do. Control is one thing that we have a lot of problems with when we don't have it. And willingly giving it up is something very few of us would normally consider. But erasing addiction comes with its own set of rules, and these rules are the only way out.

      Now how would someone go about giving their will up? They first need to understand that God isn't human, so we shouldn't have to worry about our typical distrustfulness with other humans. God is pure, and his guidance will lead you down the right path. Think of yourself as pencil. You have the ability to draw beautiful pictures, all you need is someone to pick you up and guide your movements. This is what God can and will do for you.

Step 4 states: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. This step is a where we start looking beyond the addiction, and seeing the negativity in ourselves that allowed us to get to this point.

     Where do we start with this though? In truth, it is just as hard as admitting our problems in the first place. There may be things in us that we have buried deep down, and as hard as it may be to bring them to light, we have to. We have to hold ourselves up to a magnifying glass, and find out everything about us. We have to know who we are before we move on. Every mistake has to be understood, and as painful as it may be, we must dissect ourselves, and comprehend our wrong doings.

 This goes hand in hand with Step 5, which states: We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. This is where we take all the things we found in our moral inventory, and we admit them to God, and to someone close to us. The purpose of this is to bring all our sins and mistakes into the open, so they become real. By making the sins of our past real, it prepares us to be able to face them, and eventually move on.

 

12 Steps | Step 1 and step 2

Here is a message from one of our members and they wanted to share with everybody. Contact us and let us know what you think!

This is my interpretation of the twelve steps focusing on step 1 and step 2 

 The 12 Steps for Narcotics Anonymous are used to help a person find their way back into a steady, manageable life. Each step involves looking a problem in the eye, and working your way past it, by realizing that a higher power can help us find righteousness. The biggest part of these steps, of course, is step one.

 "We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable." This seems straightforward, but what does it mean, exactly? This first step allows our minds to paint a picture. We can imagine someone who's life is slipping away like grains of sand through their hands. Friends, family, a job, all lost because of addiction. Someone who is as close to the bottom as possible. For some, they never even get the chance to work with step one. Some don't realize that there is a way back, and merely become another statistic. But for those who are able to acknowledge their problem, and are able to realize that they need help, the first step is already completed. All it takes is a look in a metaphorical mirror, and seeing what has happened, and what could be, with the right help.

 Now powerlessness is not the easiest thing to come to grips with. It's very common for the human mind to try and pretend to have control, when in truth, we have very little control on anything in the physical world. It's so easy to tell yourself that you don't have a problem, but it becomes apparent to everyone else as it gets worse. But to admit that weakness, that powerlessness, well, I believe that shows that you are ready to become a wholesome person again.

 Step one and step two are very closely related, and both really set the ideas for the other ten steps. Step two states: "We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." This is why it is important to understand that we can not control our weaknesses, and that we need help managing our lives. Because at that point, you allow yourself to be open God. You allow yourself to realize that accepting the problem will allow you to get better, and that denying it can only make it worse. You allow yourself to realize that getting help isn't a bad thing.

 Addiction is a serious problem, and it is serious enough to completely devastate our lives, to a point where redemption seems like a flickering street light at the end of a long, lonesome street. But if you are willing to take those first steps, I can tell you that the light will grow stronger the closer you get to it.

   

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NA - How it Works


If you want what we have to offer, and are willing to make the effort to get it, then you are ready to take certain steps. These are the principles that made our recovery possible.

  1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
  4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

AA - How It Works

Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average.

12 step alternatives such as SMART Recovery are helping those individuals that have an aversion to the twelve step philospphy. Needed information on alternatives for those seeking alcohol treatment programs and drug rehab are here.

Q. How do I contact SMART Recovery®?

A. The national office is:

Drug Rehab Information


There are many free options to get help for substance abuse and drug dependency in todays market. 12 Step Programs such as Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous are free. However, many people need detox and a treatment facility. This web page is written to help guide some one through the drug rehab process.

 

Intervention

An Interventionist specializes with addicts and their families stuggling with with life threatening problems such as drug addiction. Drug intervention, alcohol intervention, eating disorders, trauma and crisis are very dificult things to face alone. Many families can hit their bottom with the addicts behavior and get the person suffering the help they need. However, there are times when an intervention is necessary. Usually an interventionist is called when the family

Creating a resource page is not as easy as one might think. I have chosen to link only to sites that offer 12 step information on 12 step programs or 12 step alternative programs, non-profit programs, research sites that specialize in addiction treatment or directories that are free or very low cost that help the public find drug rehab programs.  However, you may register and put a link to your site or post in the forum and put a link to your site.

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