Welcome

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WELCOME to the website for the Volunteer Region of Narcotics Anonymous. The Volunteer Region serves the groups in the state of Tennessee. Some of our areas also include meetings just over the border in Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Virginia.

The PURPOSE of the Volunteer Regional Service Committee, Inc. is to be supportive to an NA region and its primary purpose by associating with areas within the region and helping deal with its situations and needs.

The VRSC services three basic FUNCTIONS:

The primary function of this committee is to unify the AREAS within its region, and to provide help and support to individual areas.
The secondary function of the VRSC is to carry the message of recovery through its various subcommittees.
The third function of the VRSC is to contribute to the growth of, and enhance the quality of Narcotics Anonymous as a whole, by helping support the Volunteer Region.

Call or Text: We’re Here to Help!

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Our Regional Helpline number: 901-350-5030

Text 901-350-5030:
Text a zip code or city to get a list of meetings or
Text “JFT” for the Just For Today reading.
Call 901-350-5030 and enter:
Option 1) to be connected to an area helpline,
Option 2) to get a list of meetings in a city/zip, and
Option 3) to listen to the Just For Today.

If you have questions/problems, please send us an email.

Narcotics Anonymous Public Service Announcement

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Our Message

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“Our message is that an addict, any addict, can stop using drugs, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live. Our message is hope and the promise of freedom.” -Basic Text

Just For Today

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December 22, 2024

Acceptance and Change

Page 372

"Freedom to change seems to come after acceptance of ourselves."

Basic Text, p. 58

Fear and denial are the opposites of acceptance. None of us are perfect, even in our own eyes; all of us have certain traits that, given the chance, we would like to change. We sometimes become overwhelmed when contemplating how far short we fall of our ideals, so overwhelmed that we fear there's no chance of becoming the people we'd like to be. That's when our defense mechanism of denial kicks in, taking us to the opposite extreme: nothing about ourselves needs changing, we tell ourselves, so why worry? Neither extreme gives us the freedom to change.

Whether we are longtime NA members or new to recovery, the freedom to change is acquired by working the Twelve Steps. When we admit our powerlessness and the unmanageability of our lives, we counteract the lie that says we don't have to change. In coming to believe that a Power greater than we are can help us, we lose our fear that we are damaged beyond repair; we come to believe we can change. We turn ourselves over to the care of the God of our understanding and tap the strength we need to make a thorough, honest examination of ourselves. We admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being what we've found. We accept the good and the bad in ourselves; with this acceptance, we become free to change.

Just for Today: I want to change. By working the steps, I will counter fear and denial and find the acceptance needed to change.

Our Symbol

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Simplicity is the key to our symbol; it imitates the simplicity of our Fellowship. All sorts of occult and esoteric connotations can be found in its simple outlines, but foremost in the minds of the Fellowship are easily understood meanings and relationships.

The outer circle denotes a universal and total program that has room within it for all manifestations of the recovering person.

The square, whose lines are defined, is easily seen and understood, but there are other unseen parts of the symbol. The square base denotes Good will, the ground of both the Fellow-ship and the members of our society. Good will is best exemplified in service; proper service is “Doing the right thing for the right reason.” When Good will supports and motivates both the individual and the Fellowship, we are fully whole and wholly free. Probably the last to be lost to freedom will be the stigma of being an addict.

It is the four pyramid sides that rise from the base in a three-dimensional figure that represent Self, Society, Service, and God. All rise to the point of Freedom. All parts are closely related to the needs and aims of the addict who is seeking recovery, and to the purpose of the Fellowship which is to make recovery avail-able to all. The greater the base, (as we grow in unity in numbers and in fellowship) the broader the sides of the pyramid, and the higher the point of freedom. -Basic Text