Marijuana Anonymous Online - District 13Here 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