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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Netflix & Chill
October 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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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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Chili Cook Off
October 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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Seeing ourselves in others
September 26th
"It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another."
Basic Text, p.38
How easy it is to point out the faults of others! There's a reason for this: The defects we identify most easily in others are often the defects we are most familiar with in our own characters. We may notice our best friend's tendency to spend too much money, but if we examine our own spending habits we'll probably find the same compulsiveness. We may decide our sponsor is much too involved in service, but find that we haven't spent a single weekend with our families in the past three months because of one service commitment or another.

What we dislike in our fellows are often those things we dislike most in ourselves. We can turn this observation to our spiritual advantage. When we are stricken with the impulse to judge someone else, we can redirect the impulse in such a way as to recognize our own defects more clearly. What we see will guide our actions toward recovery and help us become emotionally healthy and happy individuals.
Page 280
Open-Mindedness and the Third Tradition
September 26th
Tradition Three asks us to practice open-mindedness toward ourselves, toward others, and toward the possibility of change.
—Guiding Principles, Tradition Three, "For Members"
Tradition Three, which states that the desire to stop using is the only requirement for Narcotics Anonymous membership, is direct, inclusive, and thorough. We can even say that it's radical in what it invites us to do: leave our judgments about who qualifies for NA membership at the door. As individual addicts, we decide if we qualify, and we leave that decision to others to make for themselves.

As with all spiritual principles applied to any single Step or Tradition, open-mindedness is not an "I got this" position we take. It's an ongoing process that demands work. The excerpts from our literature that are read aloud in meetings continually confront our views about who is an addict or what is recovery. We need to keep reading them, hearing them, and acting on them. They support NA's values of inclusiveness and acceptance of all addicts no matter where we come from or what we look like; what substances, delivery method, or quantities we used; what's on our resumes (criminal or otherwise); whom we are attracted to; what our spiritual pursuits have been in the past (if any); and so on. We are all welcome here in theory—and, ideally, we're welcomed by each other in practice.

At the practical core of this Tradition is not only open-mindedness but also compassion for ourselves and for others. We begin to reject our preconceived notions of belonging, relieved that even a slight desire is enough. We become willing to be part of a group that will have us as a member. For many of us, that's tough going, as in the past we've resisted becoming a member of anything. Our dual low self-respect and lack of humility told us that a group that welcomes us and is so open to anybody probably is for losers anyway, so why bother?

We bother because we're desperate and we want our lives to improve. As we grow, open- mindedness further expands our investment in others' health and well-being. It's the gateway to empathy and unconditional love. Our open-mindedness helps keep others in the room who doubt that they qualify as addicts, who fear being part of a group, or who think that they can't stay clean.
—Guiding Principles, Tradition Three, "For Members"
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