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15aug12:00 pm1:00 pmSLAA Group - Closed to viewersSex and Love Addicts Anonymous, or S.L.A.A., is a program for anyone who suffers from an addictive compulsion to engage in or avoid sex, love, or emotional attachment. We use the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous to recover from these compulsions. The following behaviors have been experienced by members.

15aug12:00 pm1:00 pmSAA 12@12 - Closed to viewersSAA - Sex Addicts Anonymous A twelve-step program for recovering sex addicts. This fellowship offers a message of hope to anyone who suffers from sex addiction. The primary purpose is to stay sexually sober and help others to achieve sexual sobriety.

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As a fellowship of recovering addicts, Sex Addicts Anonymous offers a message of hope to anyone who suffers from sex addiction.

Through long and painful experience, we came to realize that we were powerless over our sexual thoughts and behaviors and that our preoccupation with sex was causing progressively severe adverse consequences for us, our families, and our friends. Despite many failed promises to ourselves and attempts to change, we discovered that we were unable to stop acting out sexually by ourselves.

Many of us came to this realization when we started attending SAA meetings. In that setting we heard stories similar to ours and realized that recovery from our problem was possible. We learned through the SAA Fellowship that we were not hopelessly defective.

The basic principles of recovery practiced by SAA are found in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. Although we are not affiliated with AA or with any other organization or agency, we are, indeed, grateful for permission to modify and apply the Steps and Traditions to sex addiction, making recovery possible for us.

Although sex addicts may act out sexually in many different ways, there are common elements that seem to characterize our addiction:

Powerlessness over addictive sexual behavior.
Resulting unmanageability of his/her life.
Feelings of shame, pain, and self-loathing.
Failed promises and attempts to stop acting out.

Preoccupation with sex leading to ritual.
Progressive worsening of negative consequences

CLOSED TO VIEWERS AND OPEN TO ALL SEEKING HELP

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(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location

Room 5

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15aug6:00 pm7:00 pmMens AA and More (All men seeking sobriety)

15aug6:00 pm7:00 pmDual Recovery AnonymousDRA is an independent, self-help organization. Our goal is to help men and women who experience a dual illness. We are chemically dependent and we are also affected by an emotional or psychiatric illness. Both illnesses affect us in all areas of our lives; physically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually.

15aug6:00 pm7:30 pmSAA Hope & RecoveryThrough long and painful experience, we came to realize that we were powerless over our sexual thoughts and behaviors and that our preoccupation with sex was causing progressively severe adverse consequences for us, our families, and our friends.

15aug6:15 pm7:15 pmSLAA Men's Step Study

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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.