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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St. Patrick’s Day Speaker Jam
November 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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Making a difference
October 13th
"Words cannot describe the sense of spiritual awareness that we receive when we have given something, no matter how small, to another person."
Basic Text, p. 104
Sometimes it seems as though there is so much wrong with the world that we might as well forget trying to make a difference. "After all," we think, "what in the world can I do? I'm just one person." Whether our concerns are so broad that we desire global peace or so personal that we simply want recovery made available to every addict who wants it, the task seems overwhelming. "So much work to do, so little time," we sigh, sometimes wondering how we'll ever do any good.

Amazingly enough, the smallest contributions can make the biggest difference. To gain more from life than an ordinary, plodding existence requires very little effort on our parts. We ourselves are transformed by the deep satisfaction we experience when we lift the spirits of just one person. When we smile at someone who is frowning, when we let someone in front of us on the freeway, when we call a newcomer just to say we care, we enter the realm of the extraordinary.

Want to change the world? Start with the addict sitting next to you tonight, and then imagine your act of kindness multiplied. One person at a time, each one of us makes a difference.
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Not Too Cool to Be Willing
October 13th
Our ability to enjoy our lives is directly related to our willingness to let go of our self-obsession.
—Living Clean, Chapter 7, "Love"
The very idea of dancing without some chemical courage sounds intimidating if not absurd when we're newly clean. Clubbing might have been in the early chapters of our stories, but as fun turned into fun with problems and later into simply problems, any dancing we did was more often about commerce than enjoyment. Going to our first NA dance, therefore, can be a rite of passage, especially for those of us who danced for fun or a fix in our using days.

As the saying goes, "We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." We might warm up to the idea by lurking outside with the smokers after a speaker meeting. A familiar face from meetings asks if we're going in. Not wanting to disappoint, we lean into willingness and say, "Ugh. Okay."

We might muster enough willingness to get through the door and still come up short when it's time to dance. We'll be lining the walls: too tough, too cool, too self-absorbed to give dancing clean a try. When and if we do, the self-doubt of adolescence returns to inquire, "Am I doing this right? Do I look attractive?" and other obnoxious questions that poke at our insecurities.

We retreat to the bathroom where we encounter a home-group member. They practically read our minds and offer this sage advice: "Remember that we're all self-obsessed. I just assume that everyone's too busy thinking about themselves to worry about my dancing." This practical advice helps us combat our self-obsession and find the willingness to get back out on the dance floor.

It's not as though our preoccupation with ourselves ends with one NA dance. If we're paying attention, though, there's a lesson on willingness that we can apply to other pursuits. Acknowledging that if we're thinking about ourselves, we're not really enjoying what we're doing is a good place to start. With that, we can rally the willingness to release those unhelpful self-concerns that are the enemy of joy.
—Living Clean, Chapter 7, "Love"
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