Today’s Unity Area Meetings

7:00 pm Tuesday Stairway to Life Group

307 Hickory St. Thibodaux, LA 70301

C,St,WC,NS Enter in rear of red brick building

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7:30 pm Tuesday New Orleans Metro Meeting of NA on Zoom

VM Zoom ID: 766 299 473

https://zoom.us/j/766299473

Zoom ID: 766 299 473

8:00 pm Tuesday It Works

2825 Paris Rd. Chalmette, LA 70043

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8:00 pm Tuesday First Step Group

6017 Camphor St. Metairie, LA 70003

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10:00 am Wednesday Awaken Spirituality(In-Person)

1100 Broadway St. New Orleans, LA 70118

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7:30 pm Wednesday Hardcore NA Group

4201 Transcontinental Dr. Metairie, LA 70006

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8:00 pm Wednesday Flying High Group

2109 17th St. Kenner, LA 70062

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August 08, 2022

Responsible recovery

Page 230

"...we accept responsibility for our problems and see that we're equally responsible for our solutions."

Basic Text, p. 97

Some of us, well accustomed to leaving our personal responsibilities to others, may attempt the same behavior in recovery. We quickly find out it doesn't work.

For instance, we are considering making a change in our lives, so we call our sponsor and ask what we should do. Under the guise of seeking direction, we are actually asking our sponsor to assume responsibility for making decisions about our life. Or maybe we've been short with someone at a meeting, so we ask that person's best friend to make our apologies for us. Perhaps we've imposed on a friend several times in the last month to cover our service commitment. Could it be that we've asked a friend to analyze our behavior and identify our shortcomings, rather than taking our own personal inventory?

Recovery is something that has to be worked for. It isn't going to be handed to us on a silver platter, nor can we expect our friends or our sponsor to be responsible for the work we must do ourselves. We recover by making our own decisions, doing our own service, and working our own steps. By doing it for ourselves, we receive the rewards.

Just for Today: I will accept responsibility for my life and my recovery.

Louisiana Region of Narcotics Anonymous