It was September of 1994 that fo

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It was September of 1994 that four trusted servants, with vision, met, planned, and produced the resurrection of "The Heartbeat", your bi-monthly NA newsletter, which presents the experiences and opinions of individual members of NA.

Originally created in 1990, by members from LA/SAN GABRIEL VALLEY (SGV) AND WESTSIDE, "The heartbeat" produced four issues and then folded. But now "THE BEAT" goes on. Strong! We wish to thank you, Greater LA, for your invaluable support. It has been our pleasure to serve you. This is your newsletter and your contribution of articles; poems, artwork and critical observations are its lifeblood.

We hope you will find personal growth, understanding, and empathy in this web site. We pray you will be moved to a new level of insight into your recovery and the valuable place you occupy as a member of Narcotics Anonymous.

The purpose of this our newsletter is to invite members to engage in a journey of recovery. We believe that these stories are presented in a manner that encompasses the diversity of our fellowship and is reflective of the spiritual awakening described in our Twelfth Step.

We offer this newsletter as a gift, addict to addict, and hope our love and concern for every addict who is trying our way of life comes across as strongly as we feel it. Please use and enjoy "The Heartbeat" newsletter.

Greater LA Newsletter Staff

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Previous Issues of The Heartbeat Newsletter

2010 - May June (Trapped Behind a Wall of Complacency, Last Night, Washout Blues, We've Come A long Way Greater LA, Across the Tracks )
2010 - Mar Apr (The Beginning at the End, A Recovering Addict Shares Gratitude, NA Through the Years, A Spiritual Program )
2010 - Jan Feb (Being Above Gossip Especially In Service, Once a Newcomer Always a Newcomer, The Truth, Many Gifts )
2009 - Nov Dec (One of God's Tools, 4th Step, Blocking Meetings Out, How Are You Living?, I Have Not Been Cured )
2009 - Sep Oct (Step Ten: The Road Toward Serenity, Once a Newcomer Always a Newcomer, Hold On, The Spirit of NA Service, If Only for A Moment)
2009 - July Aug (Acceptability Is Not Recovery, A Teeny Bit of Desire, Back Down Memory Lane, Dear Mystery Sponsor, The Hole, My Recovery, Dear NA Guru)
2009 - May June (If God Spoke to "NA", He Might Have Said:, Choices, Step Ten)
2009 - Mar Apr (GLAASC Executive Body, At The End Of The Day, Why Are We Here? Puzzle, Remember The Day, GLAA Subcommittees)
2009 - Jan Feb (Acceptance Is The Answer, Remember the day before you got clean?, Surrender and Hope, My Journey, My "Oh, My!", The Next Right Thing)
2008 - Nov Dec (Trapped Behind A Wall of Complacency, Acceptance, Obsession, My Three-Foot-Tall 27 Pound Higher Power)
2008 - Sep Oct (No Matter What, The Road to Recovery, The Ties That Bind Us Together, How Surrendering My Life to the Care of God Has Changed My Life)
2008 - July Aug (Exploring The Third Step, Trust, Free to Soar, H.O.W. Recovery Puzzle)
2008 - May June (My Disease Is Always With Me!, What Is Narcotics Anonymous?, Happy To Be In Recovery, Dear Family)
2008 - Mar Apr (Glad To Be Back, Across The Tracks, Failure Is Not A Dead End, Escape From The Phantom Zone)
2008 - Jan Feb (My Last Night, Living Vs Surviving, My Disease Is Always With Me!, My Mind Finally Opened, Who Is An Addict?)
2 007 - Nov Dec (Wash House Blues, Healthy Fear, What My Higher Power is like-how He cares...)
2007 - Sep-Oct (Sponsorship, Into Action (A Work in Progress), Change, Being In The Mirror Again, The Most Important Person in any Meeting is the Newcomer)
2007 - May June (Trust, The Beauty of One Addict Helping The Other Addict, Spiritual, Alive or Dead?, Must in the NA Program)
2007 - Mar Apr (No Longer Running The Show, My Disease Is Always With Me, The Newcomer Asks; "What's a Sponsor and how do I get one?, A Second Chance, Experience)
2007- Jan Feb (It's Always About The Drug, Sponsorship, Daring to Dream: Basic Text Sixth Edition, Can't Buy Me Love, It Works)
Best of the Heartbeat 1999 (Will It Be Me?, Fixing With Sex, My First Convention, Why Can't I Find A Good Relationship)
Best of the Heartbeat 2001 (NA Exposed...Our "True" Origins, No Matter What, Dealing With Illness In Recovery, No Time to Call My Sponsor, Working Shared Goals, Recovery & Relapse Puzzle, No Life Without Hope)
Best of the Heartbeat 2004 (Rainbow of Hope, Time Means Nothing!!! Says Who?, My Struggle, What About God?, Hearing The Solution)
Best of the Heartbeat 2007 (Newcomer's Hope, Step One: The Awakening, Our Symbol, Having Faith And Courage The NA Way, The Process in Action)
Best of the Heartbeat 2010 (Trapped Behind a Wall of Complacency, Last Night, Washout Blues, We've Come A long Way Greater LA, Across the Tracks )
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