I do a 12-step fellowship meeting on Monday nights. It isn't much fun - by my standards - but I got tired of having to spend hours on the bus-system trying to get to the N.A. meetings in this town. You see the A.A. fellowship grew up and grew out, but the N.A. Fellowship has almost stagnated in the downtown core ... with the exception of a couple of meetings. It isn't that there are not enough people out in the burbs to populate meetings it is more of a general lack of understanding of how it works. You get clean & you carry the message ...
In most cases in NA in Ottawa - we get clean & we get busy being successful. Or we fall off the radar & eventually back into the morass. That generally happens when the addict realizes that he can use without inconvenience ... and proceeds to accept more and more of the consequences of his or her disease as just being normal. I used to avoid AA because I felt that too many went there to justify that using some "less-harmful" substances was "Not Their Problem" ... which was the same attitude I found back in the day when CA had a small elitist presence here in Ottawa.
Now I go to AA for a recovery Touch-Stone because it seems to work - for now.
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So glad you are feeling better and still going to the gym and to meetings.
I had a little run off the rails recently, but gave myself the big talking to and am now into a good space and day seven. Now I just have to find the motivation to get active.
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