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MARCH/MAY 1995

CORRECTIONS COMMITTEE UPDATE

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Corrections Committee Update
Hi, my name is Gary G., and I’m a gratefully recovering sexaholic from Cleveland, OH. With the help of God and this Fellowship, I’ve been sexually sober since April 1993. I have been attending SA meetings regularly since November 1991. In early 1994, I joined with a group of SA members from northeast Ohio, who were attending SA meetings within two prisons near Cleveland.

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Group News
On February 4, 1995 the SF Bay area SA Intergroups hosted a half-day workshop on sponsorship. Its purpose was to raise consciousness about this vital aspect of recovery. The workshop saw sponsorship as the “oft neglected leg of the SA tripod” — 1) actively working SA’s Steps and Traditions, 2) regular and frequent attendance at SA meetings, 3) giving and receiving SA sponsorship.

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The Importance of the Group
Getting sobriety in SA was a complicated job for me. First I had to attend meetings where I was told to listen and identify in anticipation of a time when I’d become willing to surrender my lust habit to God. Initially, I resisted this open-mindedness, thinking that I needed to lust to be me. In a year’s worth of meetings, listening to sober and unsober members, I began to realize the benefits of the sober lifestyle for those who had it. I grew enthusiastic about getting serenity, choice, and freedom from lust. One thing that particularly appealed to my ego at that time was that only a sober SA could lead meetings.

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Striving for 100% Willingness
At a recent check-meeting on chronic slipping in our local group here in Somerset, I made a personal discovery which I would like to share, it made so much sense to me.

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12 Steps as Principles of Recovery from where I am Today
Dying: Admit I am powerless over lust; that my sex, sexuality, orientation and relational misconnection are unmanageable.

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Literature Committee Update
The Literature Committee is considering a new book for SA that would address such topics as developing healthy groups, guidelines for meetings, sponsorship, helping newcomers, a history of SA, and more. Parts of Discovering the Principles and the SA Meeting Guide will also be included. But help is needed from each group (and Intergroup).

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Service Structure Committee Update
There has been a surge of interest in SA for unity through representation. Many are asking how they can start an intergroup or communicate with other people in their region. The answers will come; the key is willingness and an open mind. Every area can do what best suits their current situation. The overall goal is to have each SA group represented in their respective regional assembly this year.

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Central Office Begins Process of Updating Records
SA’s Central Office needs to have an updated completed list of all local groups with the following information, if possible:

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