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Меня зовут Женя, я сексоголичка, трезвая с 1 октября 2021 года. Моя домашняя группа находится в Санкт-Петербурге, Россия, а год назад я переехала в Ханой, Вьетнам, где на всю страну я единственный выздоравливающий сексоголик, о котором известно центральному офису АС. Я начала выздоравливать с того дня, когда впервые пришла на живую группу «Анонимных Сексоголиков», моя жизнь продолжает сильно меняться с того дня. Я благодарна за вссё, что было со мной в прошлом, я не могла поступать иначе; за всё, что происходит сегодня, и за то, что произойдет в будущем. Я доверяю Богу моего понимания и уверена в том, что сейчас, в этот момент, происходит моя жизнь, я принимаю её такой, какая она есть, и я хочу её жить.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention
Эта статья посвящена профилактике срывов. Но в глубине души я чувствую себя неловко, когда пишу об этом. Мне кажется, что профилактика срывов нужна трезвым людям. Эта статья о том, как предотвратить срыв после обретения трезвости. Я считаю, что многие люди не становятся по-настоящему трезвыми, хотя и думают, что трезвы. Почему я так полагаю?
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention
Мой спонсор обычно говорил мне: “Зачем кормить волка? Пусть голодает”, имея ввиду похоть, которая живет в моей голове. Поначалу я только частично соглашался с ним. Но в глубине души я верил, что эта похоть была неотъемлемой частью моего характера, частью меня самого, даже если я знал, что она убивает меня, убивает мою душу. Я боролся с идеей позволить ей голодать. Я ассоциировал этот голод с физическим чувством голода и считал, что когда голоден, единственное решение – это поесть; а звонок трезвому брату, посещение собраний и молитва об облегчении чувства голода не накормят. Аналогично я думал насчёт насыщения голода похоти с помощью употребления похоти. В конце концов, я осознал, что эта точка зрения ошибочна, и мне понадобилась пара лет, чтобы по-настоящему понять это.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention
In Hungary, SA was founded in September 2019. We currently have three weekly meetings, two online and one hybrid, but there is real interest in Monday’s hybrid meeting in Budapest. Participation activity varies—members come and go—but we have about six to eight returning members. The meeting types are varied and include free sharing, SA White Book reading, AA Big Book reading, and speaker meetings.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention
Jestem trzeźwa według definicji trzeźwości SA od 8 lat, dzięki łasce Siły Wyższej. Lubię cyfrę 8, ponieważ przypomina mi znak nieskończoności. I chociaż wciąż uczę się żyć skupiając się na jednym dniu, program daje mi nieskończoną nadzieję, dzień po dniu.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention
Przez całe życie byłam seksoholiczką i to najważniejszy fakt w moim życiu. Mam też inne uzależnienia i inne wspólnoty. Seksoholizm nie jest tym, który zabiłby mnie najszybciej, jak to się mówi, ale na nim się głównie skupiam na programie zdrowienia, gdyż dotyczy i przenika najwięcej sfer życia.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention
Moja grupa macierzysta znajduje się w Petersburgu w Rosji, ale rok temu przeprowadziłam się do Hanoi w Wietnamie, gdzie nie ma wielu innych zdrowiejących seksoholików. Moje zdrowienie rozpoczęło się w dniu, w którym przyszłam na miting SA. Od tego dnia moje życie bardzo się zmieniło i nadal się zmienia. Jestem wdzięczna za wszystko – przeszłość, teraźniejszość i przyszłość. Życie toczy się dokładnie tak, jak chce tego Bóg mojego rozumienia, więc akceptuję wszystko, co przynosi. Pragnę żyć tym właśnie życiem.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention
Ten tekst dotyczy zapobiegania nawrotom. W głębi duszy czuję się jednak niekomfortowo pisząc o tym. Uważam, że zapobieganie nawrotom dotyczy osób trzeźwych. Chodzi o to, jak zapobiegać nawrotom po osiągnięciu trzeźwości. Uważam, że wiele osób nie trzeźwieje, choć myślą, że są trzeźwi. Jak mogę wygłaszać takie twierdzenia?
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention
Mój sponsor zwykł mawiać: „Po co karmić wilka? Pozwól mu umrzeć z głodu” – odnosząc się do żądzy w moim mózgu. Na początku częściowo się z nim zgodziłem. Jednak w głębi duszy wierzyłem, że ta żądza jest integralną częścią mojego charakteru, tego kim jestem, nawet jeśli wiedziałem, że mnie zabija, że zabija moją duszę. Zmagałem się z pomysłem, żeby pozwolić jej umrzeć z głodu.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention - SA Stories
I am sober by the SA sobriety definition eight years now, by the grace of a Higher Power. I like the number eight because it reminds me of the infinity sign. And even though I’m still learning to live within the day, the program offers me endless hope, day by day.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention - Steps & Traditions - Women in SA
I’ve been a sexaholic my whole life, and it’s the most important fact in my life. I’ve other addictions and other Fellowships also. Sexaholism is not the one which would kill me quickest, as the saying goes, but it is the major focus of my life in recovery, being the most all-encompassing and all-pervasive of them.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention - SA Stories - Women in SA
My home group is in St. Petersburg, Russia, but one year ago I moved to Hanoi, Vietnam, where there are few other recovering sexaholics. My recovery started the day I came to an SA meeting. Since that day my life has changed a lot, and it is still changing. I am grateful for everything, past, present, and future. My life is happening exactly as the God of my understanding wants, so I accept everything life brings to me. I want to live this life.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention - Theme - Women in SA
This article is about relapse prevention. However, deep down inside of me, I am uncomfortable writing about this. I feel relapse prevention applies to people who are sober. It is about how to prevent people from relapsing once they get sober. My belief is that many people do not get sober although they think they are sober. How can I make such a statement?
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention - Theme
My sponsor used to say to me, “Why Feed the Wolf? Let It Starve,” referring to the lust residing in my brain. At first, I partially agreed with him. Deep down, though, I believed that this lust was integral to my character, to who I am, even though I knew that it was killing me, killing my soul. I struggled with the idea of letting it starve. I associated hunger with food and believed that, if I were hungry, the only solution was to eat; calling a fellow, attending a meeting, or praying to alleviate the feeling of hunger won’t put food in my belly. Likewise, I projected that only acting out could feed my lust hunger. I eventually realized that this perspective is false, but it took me a couple of years to truly grasp it.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention - SA Stories
In Hungary, SA was founded in September 2019. We currently have three weekly meetings, two online and one hybrid, but there is real interest in Monday’s hybrid meeting in Budapest. Participation activity varies—members come and go—but we have about six to eight returning members. The meeting types are varied and include free sharing, SA White Book reading, AA Big Book reading, and speaker meetings.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Featured Article - Relapse Prevention - Worldwide News
This is a postcard I sent from the Cracow Convention, where I asked fellow attendees to write something or at least their names for my home group in Italy. It was a meaningful experience for me to engage with both familiar faces and newly met fellows, offering a small way to “carry the message” to those who couldn’t be present. Additionally, it could serve as a bridge from our group to the larger SA fellowship. There were many names written, reflecting various languages and alphabets. My only regrets? Not buying a larger postcard to collect even more messages, and not using colored pens.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: International Conventions - Relapse Prevention - Worldwide News
In the beginning of recovery, when I was struggling to find long-term sobriety, every relapse seemed like a death sentence. This was a delusion and a lie. Who was judging me? Not my Higher Power. I was the judge, and again I was making myself the god and center of my world. My Higher Power never stopped desiring a relationship with me. He was and is the real center of the world. He was not concerned about judging me. His intention was to call me away from bondage to lust because it blocked our relationship. For this reason, guilt did not serve me. Guilt distracted my attention from seeking help from my HP and from the help of others in the SA fellowship.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Relapse Prevention - Theme
I met my sponsor at an online SA meeting that I had never before attended. The fact that both I and my future sponsor decided to join that same meeting on the same day is evidence of my Higher Power’s love for me. Meeting him came at a time when I felt alone and disconnected, longing to feel loved and understood by my Higher Power.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Relapse Prevention - Theme
Trying to control my sexual lust is like trying to predict the weather. Sometimes I can do it successfully. However, most of the time, I fail miserably. Lust is cunning so I end up fooling myself into thinking that I can control it. The measure of my success in controlling lust is the measure of my self-deception that I am able to control it. If I go for an evening without acting out, I magnify it so that it looks like a major breakthrough in my battle against this cunning, baffling, and powerful disease.
TYPE: article | Magazine Issue: October 2023 | Topics: Relapse Prevention - Theme - Web Exclusive
There are three essential things that help me be sober. The first is a commitment to surrender every single lust temptation to my Higher Power. The second thing is to associate myself with the SA fellowship at every opportunity. I do this with regular communication with my sponsor, phone calls and meetings with SA members, and constant study of SA literature.