Why they are important and suggestions for making and receiving them Outreach calls are a crucial part of the SLAA recovery program, working hand-in-hand with meetings, sponsorship, connection to a Higher Power, and service work. Making regular outreach calls (often called OR) to fellow members helps us break out of isolation, overcome feelings of loneliness, […]
Roles and Responsibilities Service is an essential part of recovery in SLAA. Most of us would never have found recovery if not for the work of members who came before us. Now free from active addiction, we too can serve the fellowship. SLAA service begins in the groups, which carry the message directly to still-suffering
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by Robert Weiss MSW It’s no secret that addictions of all types are cyclical in nature, with one stage leading to the next, and then the next, leaving the addict mired in a seemingly endless downwardly spiraling loop. With sex addiction, various versions of the addictive cycle have been proposed. The first of these appeared
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Each boundary is a statement of the behaviour I no longer want to act out, followed by an affirming statement of the behaviour I want to replace the old behaviour with. THE JOURNAL. Jan/Feb 1992 This is not an official document, but suggestions by one member. ‘him/her/he/she’ language changed to ‘them/their’
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The concept of Step Minus One comes directly from Alcoholics Anonymous and Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) literature and early AA history. This is about the need for recovery to include the physical or medical as well as the emotional and spiritual. This meeting is for those dealing with physical or medical issues that affect their recovery and
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When a person is addicted to drugs or alcohol, they will often experience physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms. The reality of physical and emotional withdrawal symptoms from love and sex addiction are no less real. Symptoms can include insomnia and sleeplessness, flu-like symptoms, vomiting and other stomach ailments, as well as deep depression and grief
I put my hand in yours,and together we can do what we could never do alone. No longer is there a sense of hopelessness,no longer must we each depend uponour own unsteady willpower. We are all together now,reaching out our handsfor power and strengthgreater than ours,and as we join hands,we find love and understandingbeyond our
12 Step 23rd Psalm The Lord is my Shepherd, In my addiction and in my life I badly need someone or something outside of myself, my higher power Christ my good Shepherd. (In my addiction and in my life I badly need someone or something outside of myself.) I shall not want. Trusting God quietens
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Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Reaching rockbottom in a life of addiction has been for me the entrance to real life in recovery. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. The necessary experience of grief through withdrawal has made it possible for me to
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12 Step groups hold meetings to determine how to best run the meetings, spend funds, organise events, and deal with issues that affect the group or the wider fellowship. These meetings allow members to work together to consider and agree on how best to proceed in the interests of SLAA. These meetings are conducted by
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