As we use the Twelve Steps of SLAA in our recovery, many of us experience higher levels of self-esteem, and receive unexpected blessings we would not have known how to ask for. Twelve Blessings of RecoveryAdapted from recovery principles and language in the Preface of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous: Basic Text (1986), pp. vii–ix.
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Recovery from addiction is a personal journey, and having the right tools can make all the difference. Below is a simplified list of 40 recovery tools to help you or a loved one stay on the path to sobriety. These tools focus on emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. The original list (source unknown) follows.
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There are 2 versions of the 40 questions for self-diagnosis. The form below provides both sets of questions. The form will calculate a score (out of 40). There is no specific range that indicates that sex and love addiction is problematic for you – although higher scores are a stronger indication. The form is completely
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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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20 Questions To Ask Yourself Many people wonder whether they are an addict. This list is adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous, and changes the word “drinking” to “thinking”. The old adage applies: “It was not the drinking that got us stinking, but the stinking thinking that got us drinking.” All addicts have to admit that negative
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Abstinence. A change in our behaviour that involves stopping the addictive pattern — one day, sometimes one minute, at a time. Abstinence is a beginning point in sobriety. Acting Out. To engage in addictive behaviour. Engaging in a behaviour which is on one’s bottom line is often referred to as having a slip (more minor)
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Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition oriented fellowship based on the model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous.All members share an obsessive or compulsive emotional and sexual pattern, in which relationships or activities have become increasingly destructive in all areas of life — career, family and sense of self.It is open to people of
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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The Twelve Concepts for World Service of SLAA ©2012 The Augustine Fellowship, SLAA, Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Twelve Concepts of Alcoholics Anonymous are adapted with the permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (“AAWS”). Permission to adapt the Twelve Concepts does not mean that Alcoholics Anonymous is affiliated with this program. AA is a program
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Step 1 prayer Dear Higher Power,I admit that I am powerless over my addiction.I admit that my life is unmanageable when I try to control it.Help me this day to understandThe true meaning of powerlessness.Remove from me all denial of my addiction. Step 2 prayer God,I know in my heart that only you can restore
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