When it comes to recovery, I have a learning disability. If I don’t hear program truths coming out of my own mouth and the mouths of others, I tend to forget what I’ve already learned.

More than once, I’ve gone through a period of struggling, only to find the solution at a meeting—a solution I’d already known but had somehow forgotten. I’ve found myself telling things to sponsees that I needed to hear myself.

Going to meetings and working with others has been crucial to overcoming these “strange mental blank spots” (AA 42) that are a part of my sexaholic mind.