Chili Cook Off
September 23rd, 2025
6:00PM-9:00PM
Activity
Come to chili cook off if you really like chili obviously. We will be barbecuing up some nice steaks and hot dogs while reciting the steps. There will be a bunch of fun games too. Come connect with the fellowship and lets have a good time!
Nabil B
+1 (862) 485-4003
48 West High Street Somerville,NJ 08876 United States
Ocean Area Activities
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Netflix & Chill
September 25th, 2025
6:30PM-9:30PM
Activity
If you like movies and shows and you like chilling. Come do that with us clean. Bring your snuggle on and your favorite pill. Maybe even your hubby or wifey too, as long as they aint a newcomer.
Allanah K
+1 (973) 979-2512
271 Lafayette Avenue Hawthorne,NJ 07506 United States
Northwest New Jersey Activities
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St. Patrick’s Day Speaker Jam
October 3rd, 2025
6:30PM-9:30PM
Activity
If you like the color green, and eat Lucky Charms cereal in the morning, come out and help us celebrate recovery and life! See if you can find the rainbow and the pot of gold at the end, but watch out for the leprechaun.
David M
+1 (973) 201-0298
39 Kirkpatrick Street New Brunswick,NJ 08901 United States
Bergen Activities
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Sip & Paint
October 17th, 2025
2:00PM-5:00PM
Activity
Sip and paint on this lovely day with us as long as you ain't sipping what we think you sipping. If you're a Claude Monet come and show us how its done and teach us a thing or two.
Renay W
+1 (908) 666-3793
829 Salem Road Union,NJ 07083 United States
Northeast New Jersey Activities
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Keeping the gift
September 22nd
"Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift."
Basic Text, p.107
Neglecting our recovery is like neglecting any other gift we've been given. Suppose someone gave you a new car. Would you let it sit in the driveway until the tires rotted? Would you just drive it, ignoring routine maintenance, until it expired on the road? Of course not! You would go to great lengths to maintain the condition of such a valuable gift.

Recovery is also a gift, and we have to care for it if we want to keep it. While our recovery doesn't come with an extended warranty, there is a routine maintenance schedule. This maintenance includes regular meeting attendance and various forms of service. We'll have to do some daily cleaning-our Tenth Step-and, once in a while, a major Fourth Step overhaul will be required. But if we maintain the gift of recovery, thanking the Giver each day, it will continue.

The gift of recovery is one that grows with the giving. Unless we give it away, we can't keep it. But in sharing our recovery with others, we come to value it all the more.
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The Value of Empathy
September 22nd
Empathy means we get each other; we see the hidden darkness and love and hurt, and we understand.
—Living Clean, Chapter 5, "Fellowship"
As newcomers, we often were suspicious when NA members told us "I get you" after we shared. When someone said, "I've been there," we thought, No way anyone has been through what I've been through. Even scarier is when someone says, "I see you." If someone can see me, then they know how horrible I am.

A lot of us reject empathy at first because we misinterpret it as sympathy, like someone feeling sorry for us. What we begin to understand, as we keep coming back, is that our fellow NA members are feeling our pain with us. We get each other. Our situations and experiences may be different, even unique, but our suffering is not. All of us came to our first NA meeting having fought to keep our addiction going and having lost that fight.

Over time, the value of empathy is revealed. After we surrender to the fact that we belong in NA, it is others' empathy that makes us feel safe enough to accept help. We learn we don't have to hide—we can remove the mask we've been wearing, whether it's one projecting intimidation, righteousness, innocence, or invisibility. We can allow ourselves to be seen below the surface and accept that others do understand us. And in turn, we start to identify and empathize with other addicts in the room.

Being understood can be scary in a different way, too, because we witness people who've been through situations similar to ours who have taken positive action. They are clean and are taking responsibility for their lives, their relationships, and their choices. Allowing their empathy to affect us helps us to let go of the depth of our hurt and to see a path forward. Eventually, we feel grateful that we get to do that. Accepting others' empathy brings relief.

Although we get each other's darkness and hurt, we also feel each other's love and joy. We certainly do get each other, and it's based not only on our wreckage but on how we deal with it. Let's acknowledge that, too.
—Living Clean, Chapter 5, "Fellowship"
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