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	<link>https://essay.sa.org/issue/october-2018/</link>
	<description>An International Publication of Sexaholics Anonymous</description>
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		<title>Please Share Your Lust With Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous, USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[In the White Book, it says that we identified with each other at the point of our weakness. I need to hear your struggles with lust in order to get in touch with my own lust. I need to hear your pain so I know I don’t want to go back out there. I need to hear your hope so I know there is a way out. I need you to be “specific but not graphic,” as one member puts it.]]></description>
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		<title>Editors&#8217; Corner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meir</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Dear Essay readers:
This issue of Essay includes many stories on “Humility: Being Right Sized.” Your next issue in December will focus on “Service Work as a Gift.” Please send in any stories or short articles on your experience with Service Work! Future topics are: February, 2019: Sobriety and Relationships; May, 2019: Open-mindedness. Let us hear from you at essay@sa.org]]></description>
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		<title>Fundamentals of My Surrender</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott T., Pennsylvania, USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Often my willfulness asserts itself, and I have been learning the following ingredients of surrender.]]></description>
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		<title>Dear ESSAY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous, USA - Brendan, Ireland - Patrick J.</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Dear Essay,
Over the last several years I have noticed that speakers at International, regional, and even local meetings are not really sharing the pain of what got them to SA. They skip over the past with vague generalizations, so as to get to the recovery part and “focus on the solution.” I think this is misguided. As a newcomer, I need to hear the problem, so I know you understand what I am going through.]]></description>
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		<title>A “Magic Sentence”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous, USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[In my SA experience, I have encountered many times when lust and arousal seem ready to overwhelm me. In recent conversations I’ve also heard these common sexaholic scenarios:]]></description>
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		<title>Discussion Topic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The ESSAY Editor</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[The author of “Emotional Sobriety” identifies with the depressions experienced by Bill W. and his discovery of emotional sobriety.]]></description>
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		<title>Insatiable Curiosity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amjed, Texas, USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[In my home group, we encourage newcomers to read an Essay article entitled “I Don’t Have to Know” for 40 consecutive days. The author describes a compulsive need to know everything around him. He has Batman-like hyper-vigilance that is a habit of insobriety. Realizing that he is not Batman and not God, he relies on the simple mantra of, “I don’t have to know” to practice a healthy habit to not feed the impulsive desire to look.]]></description>
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		<title>Finance Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meir</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[A detailed donations report is enclosed with mailed issues of Essay, or is available from saico@sa.org. We thank SA members who generously contribute so that we may continue to carry the SA message to the sexaholic who still suffers.]]></description>
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		<title>SA CFC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Z. - Manse B.</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[The SA Correctional Facilities Committee is seeking the experience, strength, &amp; hope from any &amp; all SA members who have served, or are currently serving, time in prison, who have benefited from the SA program through CFC services, whether by working with a sponsor, reading our literature, attending meetings, etc. Stories will be recorded anonymously for an outreach video project. Please send responses to - calsacfc@gmail.com]]></description>
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		<title>Solitary Self-Appraisal Insufficient</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Whenever I try to hold something back from my sponsor or renewal partner, I find lust creeping back into my life with renewed vigor. In the AA chapter “Into Action” this quote is found: “…we usually find a solitary self-appraisal insufficient. …they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty…” (AA, Chapter 6). We find that most relapse comes from an insufficient Fifth Step (or Tenth Step).]]></description>
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		<title>Accepting Myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[My SA bus journey has been a long ride but well worth it so far. I still don’t know our destination even after 13 years. I have gone through the Steps with my sponsors several times in the course of my journey, and I have learned that the principles of Steps Four and Five still apply to me!]]></description>
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		<title>The Conversion And Humility</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rafael G., Colombia</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[My battle against the addiction was devouring my insides, and the only way to cope with it was to project everything on those nearest to me. As the monks did in the Middle Ages when they flagellated their backs for having sinned, I flogged myself psychologically very hard and did that with others.]]></description>
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		<title>Humility and Honesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron, Taiwan</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[My natural tendency is to vacillate between pride and shame. Maybe I hit moments of humility somewhere in between. It occurs to me is that both pride and shame are dishonest states of being, while humility is completely honest. That’s why I can slip into a false humility quite easily, because it is dishonest and still being prideful. It’s still about me, and not about God and others.]]></description>
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		<title>Grateful To Be Useful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen S., California, USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[There is the old story of the monk who lived on top of a high mountain. Every day he would walk down with two clay pots across his shoulders. Once at the bottom he would fill both pots and walk back up to his small hut on top of the mountain. On arriving, one of the pots would always be empty.]]></description>
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		<title>Strengths and Weaknesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn N., Pennsylvania, USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I will survive if I am strong,
I will perish if I am weak,
I will beat my addiction,
I will not admit defeat.]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Sobriety</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan T., Ireland</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Throughout my life I used food, alcohol, drugs, relationships, sex, work, and achievements to fill up a gaping hole inside which never seemed satisfied. I had an insatiable need for recognition from people. I viewed everything through a prism of me, self-obsession to the nth degree.]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Away From The Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous, Missouri, USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I used to rock climb. I mean the big mountains, like the Grand Teton in Wyoming, 13,775 feet tall. These experiences taught me some valuable lessons. When I climbed the big mountains, I never climbed alone; I was always roped together with a friend as we climbed over dangerous areas. Can I apply this lesson to my lust addiction? You bet.]]></description>
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		<title>We Came to Believe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston D., USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Have you ever known something—then you didn’t? Have you ever believed it—then you didn’t? Have you had faith and lost it? I have. I was a student, teacher, preacher and leader. I knew the Bible inside and out. I had faith that my God was real. I believed it with all my heart. However, I had a secret. That secret was my addiction. This addiction ate at my core.]]></description>
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		<title>Honesty About Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom W., Maine, USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[In the cell block I have a friend Seth. He talks to me, is friendly and warm. He has been open and honest about his heroin addiction.]]></description>
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		<title>The God Of My Understanding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick J.</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I am seeking a timeless and relevant God to assume ownership of all my affairs and provide guidance for all future decisions. This God will negotiate all interactions between me, my true self, and the rest of creation. My new Higher Power will direct my steps to either avoid or correctly navigate difficult and painful situations, self-induced or otherwise, at His discretion.]]></description>
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		<title>“The Toughest Act in Town”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous, Taichung, Taiwan</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Steps 1-3 brought me into the SA program (vs. just participating in meetings). Steps 4-9 under the guidance of a sponsor took me though the process of reconciling with my past and connecting rightly with God and others. Steps 10-12 keep me in right relationship with God and others and show me a path ahead to keep growing spiritually.]]></description>
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		<title>Progressive Victory: Alcoholic And Sexaholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard H., Missouri, USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Alcoholics Anonymous (the “Big Book”) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions have proven to be indispensable guides in my recovery journey. When I place these two recovery manuals alongside Sexaholics Anonymous, our White Book, I find helpful connections.]]></description>
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		<title>New Mexico “S” Gathering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch, New Mexico, USA</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Over a weekend in early September the New Mexico “S” Fellowships held their 18th annual retreat. The retreat welcomes all 12-Step fellowships in New Mexico in support of the sex addict. Represented this weekend were: SA, SAA, SLAA, SCA, S-ANON, and RCA.]]></description>
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		<title>Helmut M. and Thirty Years of Translations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Your ESSAY reporter</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[During the July SA International Conference in St. Louis the Essay had the pleasure of meeting Helmut M. from Germany. Since 1989 Helmut has provided the translations of SA literature into German. During visits to Germany Roy K. stayed with Helmut in his home. He later stayed with Roy and Iris in Simi Valley, California.]]></description>
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		<title>SIM 2018</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric S., Current SA Correctional Facilities Committee Chair</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[The question of whether technology can foster wholly spiritual recovery is being further explored within the International region of Sexaholics Anonymous. As a user of technology to communicate thoughts around the planet, I was nonetheless skeptical when I heard about last year’s Geek Camp.]]></description>
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		<title>Humor For SA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meir</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[A sexaholic is energetically doing chores around the house and yard. The partner knows from experience that this behavior is probably “chore-play.”]]></description>
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