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. Sometimes life gets interrupted, even sometimes for a very good reason. But, I do find that the habitual practices that I have learned through working the Twelve Steps of Sexaholics Anonymous have quite a positive result in my life. I can really feel the void whenever I experience an ongoing disruption to my regular practices—particularly in the area of my conscious connection with God.

Another area of growth that I have been working on lately is resentment. One of my SA friends and I have been discussing being “unoffendable.” This is definitely an area of weakness for both of us. I confronted my resentfulness when I first worked the Twelve Steps with my sponsor. I had not been able to see this before SA, because I could not admit this defect while I was still acting out with my drug of lust. In order to “practice these principles in all my affairs,” I regularly admit my resentfulness and surrender it to God. As with lust, resentment only gives way to the practice of surrender.

Our program of recovery is really a new way of life for me. Practicing the program—one day at a time—helps keep it new!