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Meeting Topic List

Here are some suggested topics for Marijuana Anonymous meetings:

Who Am I Becoming?

Learning to Like Myself Again

Getting Comfortable With the Person I’m Becoming

When Your Old Identity Doesn’t Fit Anymore

Rebuilding My Identity Without Marijuana

What Parts of Me Were Hidden by My Use?

Discovering My Strengths in Recovery

Learning What I Actually Want

Giving Myself Permission to Change

Becoming Someone I Can Be Proud Of

The Difference Between Who I Was and Who I Am

Finding My Voice in Recovery

Anger in Recovery

Grief for the Life We Thought We’d Have

Dealing With Resentments Before They Grow

When Recovery Brings Up Feelings We Buried

Learning to Recognize Our Emotional Needs

When I’m Having a Bad Day and Nothing Is Actually Wrong

Dealing With Loneliness Without Using

Jealousy and Comparison in Recovery

Envy: What Is It Trying to Tell Me?

Shame vs. Guilt

Forgiving Myself for Things I Did While Using

Making Peace with my Past

Setting Boundaries Without Feeling Guilty

Learning to Say No

When People Don’t Understand Our Recovery

Recovering From Unhealthy Relationships

Relationships That Changed After We Got Sober

When Friends Still Use

Making New Friends in Recovery

Letting People Help Us

Learning to Ask for Help

Recognizing When We’re People-Pleasing

Detaching Without Becoming Cold

Loving Someone Without Trying to Fix Them

When Someone We Love Doesn’t Support Our Recovery

Rebuilding Trust After Addiction

The “I’ve Got This” Trap

Complacency in Recovery

When Life Gets Good and We Stop Paying Attention

What Happens When Recovery Feels Boring?

The Dangerous Thought of “Just Once”

Romanticizing Marijuana

Remembering the Whole Story Instead of the Good Parts

When Cravings Come Out of Nowhere

Dealing With a Slip Without Turning It Into a Relapse

What Do I Do When I Want to Use?

Recovery When Nobody Is Watching

Staying Connected When We Feel Like Isolating

When We Stop Doing the Things That Helped Us

Recognizing Our Own Warning Signs

The Difference Between a Thought and an Action

Building a Life Worth Staying Sober For

Creating New Routines

Learning How to Have Fun Sober

Celebrating Milestones Without Marijuana

Dealing With Boredom

Finding Healthy Ways to Reward Ourselves

Taking Care of the Basics

Sleep and Recovery

Money and Recovery

Work and Recovery

Managing Free Time

Recovery and Major Life Changes

Starting Over Without Starting Over From Nothing

Learning How to Rest Without Escaping

Why We Avoid Working the Steps

Taking Inventory of Our Lives

What Does Accountability Really Look Like?

Making Amends vs. Saying “I’m Sorry”

When an Amends Isn’t Possible

Living the Steps Outside of Meetings

Applying the Program When We’re Angry

Applying the Program When We’re Afraid

Applying the Program When We’re Hurting

What Does Service Really Mean?

Why Service Helps Keep Us Connected

Sponsorship: What Makes a Good Sponsee?

Sponsorship: Knowing When to Reach Out

The Difference Between Hearing and Listening

Learning to Share Honestly in Meetings

When We Don’t Feel Like Going to a Meeting

What If I’m Not the Person I Thought I Was?

What Am I Running From?

What Does Marijuana Promise Me That I Still Think I Need?

The Fantasy of Controlled Use

What Does My Recovery Ask Me to Give Up Besides Marijuana?

When Recovery Changes More Than We Expected

Who Am I When Nobody Needs Me to Be Anything?

The Difference Between Being Alone and Being Lonely

What Do I Do With All the Time I Used to Spend Getting High?

When the Problem Isn’t Marijuana Anymore—It’s How I Live

What Are My Old Patterns Trying to Tell Me?

Learning to Trust the Process When I Can’t See the Outcome

What Would My Life Look Like If I Stopped Fighting Myself?

The Things We Were Trying to Escape That We Eventually Had to Face

What Does Freedom From Marijuana Actually Mean to Me?

Navigating Social Situations in Recovery

Am I Growing or Just Staying Sober?

Healthy Comfort vs. Escaping

Unexpected Triggers in Sobriety

Handling Stress Without Substances

Learning to Sit with Uncomfortable Feelings

Discovering Who I am Without MJ

Rediscovering Joy in Recovery

Feeling Instead of Escaping

Facing Life on Life's Terms even when its Hard

Watching out for Signs of Relapse on Holidays

How We Live the MA Program

The Importance of Meetings

Having a Higher Power

Letting go of Guilt

Self Honesty and Honesty to Others

Showing Humility

Feeling Humble

Becoming Teachable

Growing with Self-Esteem

Willingness to Change

Progress You've Made that You've Noticed

How Being Sober Strengthens Us and Props Us Up

Sharing our Experience, Strength, and Hope

Finding Trust in Ourselves and With Others

Unity in our Fellowship

Procrastination Isn't Action

First Things First

Setting Priorities

Experiencing Spiritual Awakenings

Progress not Perfection

Recovery is a Process Not an Event

Finding Recovery

Growing in your Heart

We Try to Keep it Simple in our Recovery

The Life I Don't Have to Live Anymore

The Willingness to Continue our Recovery Journey

Having Self Acceptance

Recovery Isn't Just Not Using

Do I Miss MJ or do I Miss Who I Thought I Was When I Used it

What Keeps Me Coming Back

Having a Sponsor to Work Steps With

No Longer a Slave to Marijuana

Why Did I Come Here

Fear and How to Overcome it

Peace Of Mind

Learning to Let Go

Where are We in Our Recovery Now

Threats to My Sobriety

Resentments and What Do We Do About Them

Overcoming Self Pity

Making Decisions

Don’t Leave Before the Miracle

Emotional Maturity

Emotional Sobriety

Becoming Worthwhile to Ourselves and Others

Giving And Receiving Love

What it Takes to Stay Clean

Having Unrealistic Expectations

Managing Anxiety

Handling Anger

Growing Through Recovery

Keeping an Inventory

Practicing Open-Mindedness

Dealing with Obsessions

Recovery Community

This is a Spiritual Program

Surrendering

Tolerance and Acceptance

One Day at a Time

Lessons Learned in Our Program

The Need For Support

Enjoying Recovery

Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World

Remembering Our Bottom and How We Have Grown

Wisdom to Know the Difference

Using the Phone for Support

What do We do to Stay Clean

More will be Revealed

Participating in Our Recovery

Plan the Action Not the Result

Accepting I am an Addict

Finding Balance

Asking for Help

Addiction a Disease of Isolation

Look for the Similarities Not the Differences

Changing the Things We Can

The Wisdom to Know the Difference

Recovery as a Lifestyle

Putting Our Recovery First

(Use) Any one of the 12 Steps or 12 Traditions