A twelve step program for a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Their primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

A twelve-step program for debtors trying to recover from money problems and compulsive debt. Their primary purpose is to stop debting one day at a time and to help other compulsive debtors to stop incurring unsecured debt.

COSA – Partner of a Sex Addict
Adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon, COSA is a twelve-step recovery program for men and women whose lives have been affected by another person’s compulsive sexual behavior.

Welcome to CEA-HOW

Do you eat when you’re not hungry?
Are you unable to lose weight? Gain weight?
Do you hide your eating habits from others?
Are you obsessed with body image, weight or exercise?
Have you lost control of what you eat and when?

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DA Debtors Anonymous
A twelve-step program for debtors trying to recover from money problems and compulsive debt. Their primary purpose is to stop debting one day at a time and to help other compulsive debtors to stop incurring unsecured debt.

Sex addiction, also known as hypersexual disorder, is characterized by persistent and escalating sexual thoughts and acts that have a negative impact on the individual’s life. Sex addicts struggle to control or postpone sexual feelings and actions. Most sex addicts do not know how to achieve genuine intimacy, forming little or no attachment to their sexual partners.
Eventually, the pursuit of sex becomes more important than family, career and even personal health and safety. As sexual preoccupation increases in terms of energy and time, the sex addict follows a routine or ritual leading to acting out on desires, which is then followed by feelings of denial then shame, despair and confusion.

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In defining sobriety, we do not speak for those outside Sexaholics Anonymous. We can only speak for ourselves. Thus, for the married sexaholic, sexual sobriety means having no form of sex with self or with persons other than the spouse. In SA’s sobriety definition, the term “spouse” refers to one’s partner in a marriage between a man and a woman. For the unmarried sexaholic, sexual sobriety means freedom from sex of any kind. And for all of us, single and married alike, sexual sobriety also includes progressive victory over lust (Sexaholics Anonymous, 191-192).

The only requirement for SA membership is a desire to stop lusting and become sexually sober according to the SA sobriety definition.

Any two or more sexaholics gathered together for SA sobriety according to SA sobriety definition may call themselves an SA group.

CEA HOW – Compulsive Eaters Anonymous HOW
A fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength, and hope are recovering from compulsive eating. This program is based on a spiritual leap preceded by abstinence from addictive substances (i.e. sugar and flour). Needing structure and discipline in recovery from food addiction, all H.O.W. groups are sugar and flour abstinent and committed to weighing and measuring their food.

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

Sex 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.

• Having few healthy boundaries, we become sexually involved with and/or emotionally attached to people without knowing them.
• Fearing abandonment and loneliness , we stay in and return to painful, destructive relationships….
• We confuse love with neediness, physical and sexual attraction, pity and/or the need to rescue or be rescued.
• We sexualize stress, guilt, loneliness, anger, shame, fear and envy.….
• To avoid feeling vulnerable, we may retreat from all intimate involvement,…Excerpts from the Twelve Characteristics of Sex and Love Addiction ©1985

You may be experiencing one or all of these characteristics, but only you can decide for sure if S.L.A.A. is right for you.   To help you make this decision, it is suggested that you complete the 40 Questions for Self-Diagnosis.  If you answer yes to any combination of these questions and think you may be struggling with sex and love addiction, you are welcome in S.L.A.A.

MEETING IS CLOSED AND OPEN TO ONLY THOSE SEEKING HELP WITH THEIR ADDICTION

Workaholics Anonymous is a fellowship of individuals who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from workaholism.

The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop working compulsively. There are no dues or fees for W.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. W.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stop working compulsively and to carry the message of recovery to workaholics who still suffer.