Suncoast
Narcotics
Anonymous
24 Hour Helpline:
1-941-257-5055
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
NA is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using.
9:00 am Saturday Peace in the Morning
8940 Midnight Pass Rd Sarasota, FL 34242
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10:00 am Saturday A Spiritual Principle A Day
2705 N Tamiami Tr Nokomis, FL 34275
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10:15 am Saturday East Side Recovery
4850 SR 64 E Bradenton, FL 34208
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12:00 pm Saturday Never Alone
2856 Ringling Blvd Sarasota, FL 34237
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12:00 pm Saturday Spiritual Principles at Noon (ONLINE)
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Meeting Updates:
- Meeting Cancelled: Young People’s Group – Closed Indefinitely
Meeting (Saturdays, 8:00 PM) cancelled indefinitely. - New Meeting: A Work in Progress
Wednesdays - 6:30 PM - Open, Speaker Meeting - Located in Jones Hall (to the right of the sanctuary)
Family of God UMC
5601 16th Ave E, Palmetto, FL, 34221
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Event Updates:
- Groups: Please Update Meeting Formats & Location Wheelchair Accessibility
Please email [email protected] with meeting name, meeting format (speaker, open discussion, etc) and whether the location is wheelchair accessible. - Recovery Convoy - Sun, May 17th
Enjoy a scenic roadtrip, out of town lunch, and fellowship starting in Sarasota and ending in Lithia. - We Do Recover Meeting Anniversary - Sun, May 24th - 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Come celebrate 41 years of carrying the message with dinner and a speaker!
St. Thomas More Church
2506 Gulf Gate Dr, Sarasota, FL, 34231
Get Directions -> - Fresh Start Group Annual Memorial Day BBQ - Mon, May 25th - 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
It's always a good time: join us for fellowship, food, music, karaoke, raffle prizes, and a speaker this Memorial Day!
GT Bray Park – Bright Outlook Pavilion
5503 33rd Ave Dr W, Bradenton, FL, 34209
Get Directions -> - SCCNA Ice Cream Social Fundraiser - Sun, May 31st - 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bring your friends, family, and sweet tooth! We will be auctioning off the chance to pie a convention committee member!
That Church
6502 14th St W, Bradenton, FL, 34207
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When:
Sunday, June 14th
Where:
That Church - 6502 14th St W, Bradenton, FL, 34207
Times:
- 1:30 PM - H&I Committee Meeting
- 2:30 PM - Activities Committee Meeting
- 2:30 PM - H&I Orientation
- 2:30 PM - Web Committee Meeting
- 2:45 PM - GSR Orientation
- 3:00 PM - Admin Body Meeting
- 3:30 PM - Area Service Meeting
Notes:
- There is no parking by the green fence.
- No smoking or vaping ANYWHERE except underneath the basketball hoop.
- Please keep the bathroom doors closed. (The air conditioning in the meeting space depends on it)
Group Readings fo NA Meetings
Use the below links to view, download, or print a PDF of the readings commonly used in NA meetings.
Narcotics Anonymous Resource Links
Helpful links to trusted NA resources for recovery support, literature, and local & global fellowship connections.
Daily Meditations
Subscribe →May 15, 2026 |
Fear of the Fourth Step |
| Page 141 |
| "As we approach this step, most of us are afraid that there is a monster inside of us that, if released, will destroy us." |
| Basic Text, p. 27 |
| Most of us are terrified to look at ourselves, to probe our insides. We're afraid that if we examine our actions and motives, we'll find a bottomless black pit of selfishness and hatred. But as we take the Fourth Step, we'll find that those fears were unwarranted. We're human, just like everyone else--no more, no less. We all have personality traits that we're not especially proud of. On a bad day, we may think that our faults are worse than anyone else's. We'll have moments of self-doubt. We'll question our motives. We may even question our very existence. But if we could read the minds of our fellow members, we'd find the same struggles. We're no better or worse than anyone else. We can only change what we acknowledge and understand. Rather than continuing to fear what's buried inside us, we can bring it out into the open. We'll no longer be frightened, and our recovery will flourish in the full light of self-awareness. |
| Just for Today: I fear what I don't know. I will expose my fears and allow them to vanish. |
| Copyright (c) 2007-2026, NA World Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
May 15, 2026 |
We Can Rediscover Hope at Any Time |
| Page 140 |
| "When we see a member experience a real breakthrough with 20, or 30, or more years clean, we can see that, truly, recovery never stops." |
| Living Clean, Chapter 7, "Love" |
| As a twelve-step program, stairs are an easy go-to metaphor we often use to describe the recovery process. We climb up out of the darkness and despair of active addiction into the light of recovery. Some members say that the farther we go up the staircase, the more we have to lose should we go tumbling back down again. Living Clean describes recovery like a spiral staircase: "Again and again we come to the same view, only each time we are seeing it from a different perspective." One member shared with a laugh, "My staircase feels more like one of those trippy optical illusion paintings where the stairs circle back on each other and the laws of physics don't apply." The longer we stay clean, the more life we experience. And when we're actively working our program, we experience life deeply and continue to encounter more truth about ourselves all the time. Finding a new way to live takes on a different meaning when we stay clean for decades. We discover ourselves, reinvent ourselves, lose ourselves, find ourselves, discover ourselves--again and again and again. The staircase circles back on itself. When we stay clean through it all and stay active in NA, much of our process is visible to those around us. It can be messy. We may grow in ways that cause us to drift apart from some friends in recovery. We may form new connections with other members we never thought we would get close to. We might have moments where we feel silly or slow for having a realization about ourselves so far down the path, only to have our friends respond, "Oh, yeah--we've known that about you for a long time." Few of us end up having the lives that we would have expected to have--or even being the people we would have expected to be--when we first got clean. Our fellow members love us through it all. No matter how far along we are, when we share our new discoveries, we share our hope. |
| My journey may not look like what I expected--or what I think others expected. As my horizons broaden, I will relish each discovery and freely share what I have learned so others can see how my journey continues. |
| Copyright (c) 2007-2026, NA World Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved |