SA Stories

4th Birthday Celebration in Israel

Hello everyone! My friends in recovery! Thank God we still have emails… After I use WhatsApp so much, it’s as if one who doesn’t have it – isn’t around at all. Thank God it’s only my sick head ;-)

By |2024-07-09T10:57:10-05:00March 23, 2017|Comments Off on 4th Birthday Celebration in Israel

The SA “White Room”

I attended my first SA meeting in June 2010. I was broken mentally. I had nowhere else to go. I had failed. I agreed with my counselor that I couldn’t stop using porn. When I attended my first meeting I did not feel judged or pressured by the members. There was no dogma, no form to sign.

By |2024-07-05T13:26:43-05:00March 23, 2017|Comments Off on The SA “White Room”

Lust Addiction in Marriage

I got married with only one week of sobriety in Sexaholics Anonymous. I had just started working with my sponsor, and he said that it might be a good idea to postpone the wedding until I had more sobriety and recovery—but he understood that it was shortly before the wedding and canceling would have been difficult.

By |2024-06-20T13:09:14-05:00December 11, 2016|Comments Off on Lust Addiction in Marriage

High Cost of Fear

Although I am not married, I have lived as if I were—not to any living breathing human being but to FEAR. Just as my addictions seemed to help me to cope with the dysfunctional world in which I grew up, Fear seemed to help me to manage and control my addictions.

By |2024-06-20T13:07:45-05:00December 11, 2016|Comments Off on High Cost of Fear

Emotional Sobriety

A few years into my recovery I found myself periodically delving into some very negative emotions. These incidences were sometimes triggered by things like dealing with difficult people, having to make difficult decisions when there seemed to be no good options, and trying to cope with marital difficulties.

By |2024-08-26T15:08:43-05:00September 14, 2016|Comments Off on Emotional Sobriety

Without God I Can’t, Without Me God Won’t

After my last act out, I have come to wonder if I am addicted to emotional pain. For an addict pain, along with most human instincts and feelings, can be skewed by a strange mental twist. Is pain that place of comfort or familiarity that I am inexplicably drawn to?

By |2024-06-20T13:25:51-05:00September 14, 2016|Comments Off on Without God I Can’t, Without Me God Won’t

Ceased Fighting

My name is Tom M. I have been in recovery and sober since December 2007. Recently I had a phase when many things bothered me. I was mad at people at work, my wife’s requests didn’t make sense to me, things at church annoyed me, and the list went on and on.

By |2024-07-16T18:05:20-05:00June 18, 2016|Comments Off on Ceased Fighting

Thirty Years Sober: Still Surrendering Fantasy

It was July 31, 2015, and I was in the shower. Without warning, in the space of about a minute and a half, three different lust images came through my thoughts. Soon after I let the first one go—20 or 30 seconds later—here came another! Soon after I let that one go, there was a third!

By |2025-08-06T12:44:19-05:00March 19, 2016|Comments Off on Thirty Years Sober: Still Surrendering Fantasy

Humility and Honesty

My natural tendency is to vacillate between pride and shame. Maybe I hit moments of humility somewhere in between. It occurs to me that both pride and shame are dishonest states of being, while humility is completely honest.

By |2024-08-02T13:15:58-05:00March 19, 2016|Comments Off on Humility and Honesty