Welcome To Twelfth Step Ministry, Inc.

a safe, inclusive community of hope, support, education and training for the recovery and professional communities in North Texas

Our History

Dr. Tom Shipp, the long time pastor of Lovers Lane United Methodist Church translated his calling to provide help and recovery for the alcoholic, by drawing on his community of faith to realize this mission.

Since the early 1990’s the Twelfth Step Ministry has been providing recovery and support services to community members in North Texas. Then in December 2005 the Twelfth Step Ministry was formalized and incorporated with it’s own board of directors.

Today’s Meetings

september, 2018

04sep(sep 4)7:15 pm01(sep 1)8:15 pmSLAA Men's Step Study

Event Details

Step Study Groups: It is a tradition that we work through all twelve steps in groups, called Step Study groups. Those groups are single-sex and will consist both of members who have worked the steps many times and those who have never worked them before. Once formed, the groups close to additional members so that a coherent and unchanging group may work through the steps together. We strongly recommend members join a Step Study group when one begins to form.

S.L.A.A. TERMINOLOGY

Bottom-line Behavior: Sex and love addiction is more complicated than alcoholism or drug addiction in that it may manifest itself in patterns that vary from addict to addict. Because of this fact, in SLAA, we each define our own sobriety, and the behavior(s) that we determine to constitute our addiction we call our bottom-line behavior. A common basic bottom line is to avoid sex outside of a committed relationship. Members may also include on their bottom-line going to a particular place, contacting a particular person, watching a certain kind of movie or program, avoiding pornography, dressing provocatively, cruising for partners or even allowing oneself to drift off into all-consuming fantasy — in short avoiding anything that causes us to plunge back into our addiction. The participation of a sober sponsor is essential in setting your bottom-line. Only we ourselves can determine which behaviors are addictive for us, but our addiction may blind us to the realities of our behavior; we need the assistance of a loving outsider and a Higher Power to assist us in this process. Typically, our bottom line will change as we progress in recovery. The initial bottom line may be changed, as we see the need, to include behaviors that we did not previously recognize as addictive. This process continues until the addict reaches a comfortable and manageable pattern of living. The process of establishing our bottom line, like much else in recovery from this disease, is a trial and error process. We may even have to modify our behavior with our spouses and significant others.

Time

4 (Tuesday) 7:15 pm - 1 (Tuesday) 8:15 pm cst

Location

Room 2

Calendar GoogleCal

05sep7:00 pm8:30 pmSLAA Mens Step Study(closed to new members)

11sep(sep 11)7:15 pm08(sep 8)8:15 pmSLAA Men's Step Study

Event Details

Step Study Groups: It is a tradition that we work through all twelve steps in groups, called Step Study groups. Those groups are single-sex and will consist both of members who have worked the steps many times and those who have never worked them before. Once formed, the groups close to additional members so that a coherent and unchanging group may work through the steps together. We strongly recommend members join a Step Study group when one begins to form.

S.L.A.A. TERMINOLOGY

Bottom-line Behavior: Sex and love addiction is more complicated than alcoholism or drug addiction in that it may manifest itself in patterns that vary from addict to addict. Because of this fact, in SLAA, we each define our own sobriety, and the behavior(s) that we determine to constitute our addiction we call our bottom-line behavior. A common basic bottom line is to avoid sex outside of a committed relationship. Members may also include on their bottom-line going to a particular place, contacting a particular person, watching a certain kind of movie or program, avoiding pornography, dressing provocatively, cruising for partners or even allowing oneself to drift off into all-consuming fantasy — in short avoiding anything that causes us to plunge back into our addiction. The participation of a sober sponsor is essential in setting your bottom-line. Only we ourselves can determine which behaviors are addictive for us, but our addiction may blind us to the realities of our behavior; we need the assistance of a loving outsider and a Higher Power to assist us in this process. Typically, our bottom line will change as we progress in recovery. The initial bottom line may be changed, as we see the need, to include behaviors that we did not previously recognize as addictive. This process continues until the addict reaches a comfortable and manageable pattern of living. The process of establishing our bottom line, like much else in recovery from this disease, is a trial and error process. We may even have to modify our behavior with our spouses and significant others.