The "F" Word
A primary emotion that addicts feel prior to picking up
What is fear?
You are in this when you detach or disconnect from others
What is isolation?
We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction...
What is step 1?
Guilt is feeling bad about what you've done, this is feeling bad about who you are
What is shame?
You're only as sick as these
What are your secrets?
This spiritual principle is necessary when surrendering to a higher power
What is faith?
This "R" word that you could also have at a restaurant is one common cause for relapse
What is a reservation?
We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it
What is step 10?
The twelfth tradition asks us to place these before personalities
What are principles?
If you are uncomfortable with the word God, you can think of it as an acronym for this
What is "good orderly direction" or "group of druggies"?
In active addiction addicts often lose these
What are friends or families?
Having these are just premeditated resentments
What are expectations?
Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on NA unity
What is tradition 1?
Meetings are self-supporting through these
What are our own contributions?
Instead of living in the problem, try to find this
What is the solution?
Happy, joyous, and ...
What is free?
Getting into a sexual or romantic relationship before an addict is prepared to handle it (or it's demise) could lead to this
What is relapse?
We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings
What is step 7?
Some addicts find ourselves in one of these, that we "can't get out of clean"
What is the corner?
God will never give you more than this
What is you can handle?
We must do this for ourselves before we can do it for others
What is forgive?
When you are resting on your laurels, and lacking motivation to move forward in your recovery, you are this "C" word
What is complacent?
Each group is autonomous, except in matters affecting other groups, or NA as a whole
What is tradition 4?
"We began to see that we had rationalized the most outrageous sort of" this to justify the mess we had made of our lives
What is nonsense?
If it's not spiritual, it's not this
What is practicle?