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Welcome

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:

  1. The primary function of this committee is to unify the AREAS within its region, and to provide help and support to individual areas.
  2. The secondary function of the VRSC is to carry the message of recovery through its various subcommittees.
  3. 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!

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.

Our Message

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

Click HERE: Just For Today & SPAD

Click HERE: Just For Today & SPAD

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October 06, 2026

Amends without expectations

Page 292

"Projections about actually making amends can be a major obstacle both in making the list and in becoming willing."

Basic Text, p. 39
The Eighth Step asks us to become willing to make amends to all persons we have harmed. As we approach this step, we may wonder what the outcome of our amends will be. Will we be forgiven? Relieved of any lingering guilt? Or will we be tarred and feathered by the persons we've harmed?

Our tendency to seek forgiveness must be surrendered if we expect to receive the spiritual benefits of the Eighth and Ninth Steps. If we approach these steps expecting anything, we're likely to be very disappointed with the results. We want to ask ourselves if we are pinning our hopes on gaining the forgiveness of the person to whom we are making amends. Or maybe we're hoping we'll be excused from our debts by some sympathetic creditor moved to tears by our hard-luck story.

We need to be willing to make our amends regardless of the outcome. We can plan the amends, but we can't plan the results. Although we may not be granted a full pardon by everyone to whom we owe amends, we will learn to forgive ourselves. In the process, we will find that we no longer have to carry the burdens of the past.

Just for Today: I will let go of any expectations I have on the people to whom I owe amends.

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Our Symbol

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

Volunteer Region · PO BOX 12053, Murfreesboro, TN 37129 · volunteerregion@gmail.com · 501c3 Tax Exempt
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