Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to. The saa green book is the first book which you might want to read if youre interested in sex addicts anonymous. Suggested topics for discusion meetings soberrecovery. Following the conclusion of the step meetings, some groups will discuss the traditions so that, every thirteenth meeting the group focuses on a tradition. We recover from sex andor love addiction or avoidanceanorexia by sharing. The following documents are not officially approved by slaa as a whole, but many of our members have found them helpful. The conference steps, traditions, and concepts committee cstcc is working on a new book. This by implication means all methods of true recovery are how. Twelve and twelve book project sex and love addicts. A timely and controversial second look at 12step programs, helping all readers to draw on the steps underlying wisdom, adapting them to their own experiences, beliefs, and sources of strength. Additionally we encourage you to read the big book of alcoholics anonymous, especially chapters 5, 6 and 7. Slaa uses uses the twelve steps and twelve traditions adapted from alcoholics anonymous to recover from these compulsions the only requirement for membership of sex and love addicts.
I verified on firefox on my laptop that saas bookhosting provider now uses html5. The literature you are viewing is a large file and may take a few minutes to load. It is spelled out in the appendix of their big book. Do you truly believe that your own willpower will not work with sex and love addiction. Contributions from members help meet the costs associated with the administration and activities of the fellowship. These chapters explain, respectively, our twelvestep program of recovery, the withdrawal experience, and building partnerships. This book is a major contribution to the understanding and healing of sex addiction, romance addiction, and sexual codependency in women. To help us work the twelve steps, cocaine anonymous uses a text entitled alcoholics anonymous, commonly referred to as the big book. Discuss and reflect on how to see to it that your relationship with him is right and the importance of it for you today. By the time we reach this step, we have become ready to understand rather than to be. The green book is published by and can be ordered from the iso of saa. On page 66 3rd par of the slaa hand book it refers to the aa big book and the twelve steps and twelve traditions. Discuss and reflect upon the idea that your discipline or lack of it has played an important part in your life. Steps by the big book step 2 steps by the big book.
Read pages 7576, chapter 6 in the big book, make a list of the character defects that you are ready to have god remove. All references to the topics will be found in the first 164 pages of the book, alcoholics anonymous. Those using mobile devices may encounter problems if your device does not have sufficient memory. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of god as we understood god. Sex addicts anonymous green book saas basic text saa. Read chapter 2 in the big book there is a solution. Clarendon hill presbyterian church 155 powder house blvd somerville, ma 02144. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol drugs, actingout behaviour. This is twelfth step work in the very best sense of the word. This, the newcomer thinks, is just about the last straw. The big book holds within it the central thesis and ideas of alcohol anonymous and the 12 step approach.
Sex and love addicts anonymous slaa is a twelve step twelve tradition oriented fellowship based on the model pioneered by alcoholics anonymous. For individualsboth beginning recovery and experienced in 12step recovery from sex and love addictioncan benefit. We strongly recommend all members read the basic text of slaa, especially chapters. Slaa step 11 questions april 5 january 1 2012 1 april 1 about me. Slaa assertiveness bill of rights why not give slaa a try.
Additionally, we encourage you to read the big book of alcoholics anonymous, especially chapters 5, 6 and 7. Read chapter 3 in the aa big book more about alcoholism. We provide this study guide based on personal experience to help those following aas 12 steps as outlined in the original big book, alcoholics anonymous aa. This love addicts anonymous book examines the very real, though often socially ignored, addiction to sex and love relationships. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. When temporary good fortune came our way, we indulged ourselves in fantasies of still greater victories over people and circumstances. But scarcely any step is more necessary to longtime sobri.
There is no distinction, and in slaa as a wide fellowship, there also is no distinction. Slaa red reading group uses the aa big book to gain the instructions on how recover from our sex and love addictions. But the program offers a great deal of grace and healing, and the book is. Instead they read the 12 and 12 and hope and recovery. Cocaine anonymous world services a guide to the 12 steps.
These chapters explain, respectively, our twelve step program of recovery, the withdrawal experience, and building partnerships. But scarcely any step is more necessary to longtime sobri ety and peace of mind than this one. The entire saa green book, and the entire aa big book, are. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading sex and love addicts anonymous. We become sober by abstaining from these bottomline behaviours on a daily basis. People in that group have sobriety not because of the basic text but because of others in the group who are actually working the steps.
This literature is where the how methodology sprang from. Were here for men and women, and the program seems to work well for both. The only qualification for slaa membership is a desire to stop living out a pattern of sex and love addiction. Kind, trusting, satisfying relationships using the 12 steps, the 12 traditions and the 12 concepts 605 4725770 access code. Some have found reading the chapter entitled to the agnostic in the aa big book helpful. Slaa is supported entirely through the contributions of its membership and is free.
Honesty, openmindedness, willingness from the aa big book pg 570 format says the 12 steps are required. In slaa how a step 4 must be written in the format of a four or five column table as outlined in the aa big book. In the order they are written, one step at a time, every two weeks. This pamphlet contains a description of one method for taking the twelve steps of cocaine anonymous. A telephone meeting for learning about and discussing bottom lines. The big book, alcoholics anonymous some groups discuss one chapter from the big book each week. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Sex and love addicts anonymous 12 twelve steps to recovery. Yet many addicts try to sidestep the 12 steps by telling themselves theyre not like the.
Unitarian universalist church 274 pleasant st concord, nh 03301. One of the main differences is that regular 12 step fellowships suggest the 12 steps as a means to recover from addiction, while the h. These step study guides and worksheets have been used by thousands of aas, nas, alanons, oa overeaters, cas, gas and other 12 step recovery program members that use the 12 steps as instructed in the book, alcoholics. Regular attendance at 12step meetings is a vital part of the treatment plan for sex and love addicts. As ive said many times throughout my answers to these questions, my new slaaquestion inspired understanding of step 3 is that it is a path from selfdriven ego to selfless godnature. Welcome to the green book step study a study of the twelve steps of saa based on quotes from sex addicts anonymous 1st ed. Slaa is open to anyone who knows or thinks they have a problem with sex addiction, love addiction, romantic obsession, codependent relationships, fantasy addiction andor sexual, social and emotional. I find time to do and say things that would help heal the damage that i have done. This means that only people who consider themselves to be members of s.
We strongly recommends all members read the basic text of slaa, especially chapters. It is as if he is using the 12step as a kind of justification of his sobrietybywithdrawl theory instead of giving practical advise as to how to work them. The basic text for the augustine fellowship, sex and love addicts anonymous kindle edition by fellowship, the augustine. The eighth step starts the procedure of forgiving others and possibly being forgiven by them, forgiving ourselves, and learning how to live in the world. Other groups read from the big book weekly and discuss each chapter as they go along. Mens mtg serenity on sunday men, location temporarily closed.
Because sex and romantic love are so highly touted in our culture, compulsive behaviors in this area are often overlooked, tolerated and even encouraged. When it comes to ego defl ation, few steps are harder to take than five. Step five admitted to god, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. The deception of others is nearly always rooted in the deception of. Steps by the big book step 1 steps by the big book. Perhaps we think of our days work and the chances it may afford us. This is the basic premis of the original 12 step fellowship, aa. Thus blinded by prideful selfconfi dence, we were apt to play the big shot. Before answering each set of questions, read the appropriate step chapter in the aa 12 x 12. Download pamphlets and handouts to use in big book group sessions our workbook companion to alcoholics anonymous 12 steps of recovery from alcoholism and addiction is called steps by the big book. Risenshine 12 step big book study sex addicts telemeeting, pacific time call in number. You will need a copy of that book and are urged to get one. This means that only people who consider themselves to be members of slaa should make a contribution.
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