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april, 2019

20apr8:30 am10:00 amAA Big Book - Men Only - Alcoholics Anonymous

20apr9:00 am10:00 amDA Prosperity - Debtors AnonymousA 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.

20apr10:00 am11:00 amCOSA Womens Group - Partner of a Sex Addict

20apr10:15 am11:15 amDA Vision Group (all except 2nd Sat)- Debtors Anonymous

20apr10:30 am12:00 pmSA - Closed to viewers

Event Details

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.

Time

(Saturday) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Location

Room 3

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20apr10:30 am12:00 pmSAA Step Study - Closed to viewers

Event Details

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

Time

(Saturday) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Location

Room 7

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20apr11:00 am12:00 pmCompulsive Eaters Anonymous

20apr11:30 am1:00 pmSLAA Women'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.