Hey Folks!
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Knoxville, TN
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Hey Folks!
I am almost 4 years sober now. My sponsor has almost 20 years sober, and she assures me I am a newcomer.
I am heading to my first NA meeting tonight I am working with a gal who is alcoholic and also an addict. I see that it is a closed meeting of NA.
I have had narcotics prescribed to me, and I certainly did not follow the instructions. I have smoked the smokeables a few times, but my big problem was alcohol.
NA says alcohol is a drug, so that makes me an addict? So it is OK for me to attend this closed NA meeting with my sponcee?
I am heading to my first NA meeting tonight I am working with a gal who is alcoholic and also an addict. I see that it is a closed meeting of NA.
I have had narcotics prescribed to me, and I certainly did not follow the instructions. I have smoked the smokeables a few times, but my big problem was alcohol.
NA says alcohol is a drug, so that makes me an addict? So it is OK for me to attend this closed NA meeting with my sponcee?
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Welcome Jill!
Congratulations on 4 years - that's wonderful! I'm no expert on the etiquette of AA/NA, but I don't see any reason you shouldn't go to the meeting. It's really the same program, after all. If you're concerned, just introduce yourself as an "alcoholic and an addict."
Good for you for being a sponsor!
Congratulations on 4 years - that's wonderful! I'm no expert on the etiquette of AA/NA, but I don't see any reason you shouldn't go to the meeting. It's really the same program, after all. If you're concerned, just introduce yourself as an "alcoholic and an addict."
Good for you for being a sponsor!
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Jill
Originally Posted by jillbedford 
I am almost 4 years sober now.
NA says alcohol is a drug, so that makes me an addict? So it is OK for me to attend this closed NA meeting with my sponcee?
NA says alcohol is a drug, so that makes me an addict? So it is OK for me to attend this closed NA meeting with my sponcee?
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What I like about all recovery meetings is
that there is no one standing at the door
asking me for an AA card or any card, Dr.
Lic. and no one asks if im an alcoholic or
anything else.
For me, i go out to get what I need in what
ever meeting to help me stay sober. I walk in
and nod, smile, shake a hand, grab my coffee
and find a seat. No one bothers me or disturbs
me, or asks me to leave or stay for any reason.
I sit, listen, absorb and take the messages of
other members experiences, strengths and hopes
shared to heart, mind and soul to guide me,
strengthen me as I continue on my recovery
journey a day at a time.
Living a recovery life for 22 yrs now has been
absolutely rewarding to me.
It can be for all as well who really want it.
that there is no one standing at the door
asking me for an AA card or any card, Dr.
Lic. and no one asks if im an alcoholic or
anything else.
For me, i go out to get what I need in what
ever meeting to help me stay sober. I walk in
and nod, smile, shake a hand, grab my coffee
and find a seat. No one bothers me or disturbs
me, or asks me to leave or stay for any reason.
I sit, listen, absorb and take the messages of
other members experiences, strengths and hopes
shared to heart, mind and soul to guide me,
strengthen me as I continue on my recovery
journey a day at a time.
Living a recovery life for 22 yrs now has been
absolutely rewarding to me.
It can be for all as well who really want it.
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 7
Thanks guys. My sponcer is having some very tough financial issues, so she can not get to meetings and her phone is off. So that is why I posted her rather than ask her.
Anyway, my sponcee and I went to NA all weekend. Lots of men there. Just saying. But I escorted her right out so she did not get any ideas.
I enjoyed the meetings. We went to a flat book study, an open discussion meeting and a candlight meeting. I carry an AA meeting into the jail too. So I was pretty busy with program this weekend. As per usual.
I liked it. It is what AA should be in my opinion. We live in such a small town and AA meetings have maybe 10, at the most in attendance. But at NA there was over 100 people. Sharing??? Not an option. Which is great to me because I am always asked to share in AA. And always asked to chair. And open up. And clean up. And make coffee. And be on multiple service committees.
I have stayed sober so it worked, but sometimes I feel sort of burned out. I liked being just another person attending the meeting.
Anyway, my sponcee and I went to NA all weekend. Lots of men there. Just saying. But I escorted her right out so she did not get any ideas.
I enjoyed the meetings. We went to a flat book study, an open discussion meeting and a candlight meeting. I carry an AA meeting into the jail too. So I was pretty busy with program this weekend. As per usual.
I liked it. It is what AA should be in my opinion. We live in such a small town and AA meetings have maybe 10, at the most in attendance. But at NA there was over 100 people. Sharing??? Not an option. Which is great to me because I am always asked to share in AA. And always asked to chair. And open up. And clean up. And make coffee. And be on multiple service committees.
I have stayed sober so it worked, but sometimes I feel sort of burned out. I liked being just another person attending the meeting.
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