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First quarter results were promising. Fellowship contributions were back to budget levels. Literature sales were returning to normal. We were finding the way. We were on the right track. Then the Corona Virus struck in mid-March. There was no warning; there was no ramp up; there is no play book. Our meeting room lights were shut off, not dimmed, but just dark. The Fellowship found the way.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Travel & SA Recovery - Trustee Committees - Worldwide News
I have attached my goals for the next year in SA. These are to enhance my sobriety. I am going to do a goal every week and write about it in a journal.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Steps & Traditions - Travel & SA Recovery
The March 2020 Asia Pacific Online Unity event was a huge success.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Travel & SA Recovery - Worldwide News
Can I focus on what I will do to deal with my problems without first admitting I have problems? What does “rigorous honesty” mean, if not to open up to others about my defects? How did I first identify with others in SA and feel that I belonged, other than to hear about the mess others had put themselves through? Why do we read in meetings first about “The Problem” before sharing “The Solution”?
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Featured Article - Steps & Traditions - Travel & SA Recovery
When we come to SA the most important question we can ask ourselves is “What is the point of sobriety?” Maybe we want to strive to “get something back” or to “get something” in the first place — a husband, a wife, a job. Maybe we work to be just “good enough,” mostly sober. Or maybe we just keep coming back to get support for our illness like Roy talks about in Recovery Continues (p67).
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Featured Article - Steps & Traditions - Travel & SA Recovery
When you asked me about how to respond to temptations, I thought I could share a few suggestions and insights with you.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Featured Article - Steps & Traditions - Travel & SA Recovery
One day a sexaholic out walking alone fell into a pit. The pit was deep. As much as he tried, the sexaholic couldn’t get out. He tried to jump up and to climb up, but this proved useless. He was stuck in the pit with no apparent way out.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Humor - Travel & SA Recovery
For years I had not set up a voicemail on my phone. It just did not seem worth the time or energy. Out of a sense of ignorance, I was not thinking of anyone else’s convenience. I suppose I figured I wasn’t worth leaving a voicemail for anyway. However, at the urging of my sponsor I went ahead and activated my voicemail.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: SA Stories - Travel & SA Recovery
Whenever I get into negative or obsessive thinking, I try to remember the great promise of recovery from sex and lust addiction as I first experienced it. We all remember where we were and what we were doing when first we learned of something that would forever change our lives, especially something that promised us freedom from a hopeless state of mind and body.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: SA Stories - Travel & SA Recovery
Recently I faced the most severe challenge I’ve had in 18 months of sobriety. An explicit image and message appeared on my phone out of the blue one day when I was in a meeting at work. Like a deer in headlights, I was struggling to know what to do next. I thought it might be someone I had acted out with in the past.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: SA Stories - Travel & SA Recovery
I was born in a religious family who always believed in Allah and His power. Actually I was believing that He can do anything except this one thing, so I had problems. I couldn’t pray and ask Him about this addiction. I was so resentful how my life was totally destroyed. I can’t describe the remorse and self-pity I felt every time I relapsed.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Featured Article - Travel & SA Recovery
I recently returned home from two months of traveling and living my life in another country. One of the hardest parts of those two months of travel was the disruption to my “standard practice” of my Sexaholics Anonymous program of recovery. I know that disruptions will happen. That’s life.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Travel & SA Recovery
When I was asked if I wanted to share anything with the GDA, I thought about it and welcomed the opportunity. First, I love this very special fellowship of the Spirit, which on the personal relationship level can go deep as we “bear one another’s burdens” and so fulfill the law of love. Thank you!
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Travel & SA Recovery
Eight years ago, I decided to take a month’s leave of absence from work to travel to Florida and enjoy the beautiful March weather of the sunshine state, as well as to practice my favorite sport: golf. One important concern I had when I made that decision: how would I be able to maintain my SA routine that has enabled me to keep progressing in my recovery, which includes attending, on a regular basis, SA meetings?
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Featured Article - Travel & SA Recovery
The only annual novelty that happened in my family, apart from my birthday, was the arrival of the holidays. We used to go to the beach every year and the freedom the sea and the waves produced in me softened the anguish of having “special parents,” who did not love each other and who might even divorce.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Featured Article - Travel & SA Recovery
On page 81 of the Sexaholics Anonymous book is a paragraph which just happens to be my favorite quote from the book.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Travel & SA Recovery
Several years ago I was going to an SA Convention. I got a window seat, because I don’t want anybody to ask me where I am going. I don’t want to lie, and I don’t want to tell the truth. I want to look out the window and be left alone.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Travel & SA Recovery
Awake
Awake now
This day
This moment
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Poems - Travel & SA Recovery
A favorite author of mine (not in a 12-step program) says that love is “a flow of energy willingly allowed and exchanged, without requiring payment in return.” The 12-step recovery process has been an integral part of my experience with this flow of love. As I walk the road of restoration, the channels are open for me to receive the love that my higher power has for me.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: May 2020 | Topics: Happy & Joyous Freedom In Times Of Global Lockdown - Meditations - Travel & SA Recovery
Over three sober decades in SA there have been quite a few pieces of “bad news” for us sexaholics. They all arise, like our entire program, from our experience, strength and hope:
• Worrying about the rest of my life is none of my business — if I am working Step 3.