Steps & Traditions

Traditions in Practice

From where does your group get SA literature? Who provides informational packets to individuals trying to start a new group? Who helps the desperate sexaholic connect with a group, or another member? From whom can you obtain information about meetings and contacts when traveling? Who provides online registration for our International Conventions?

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The Gift of Healing

In the early recovery stages, the pain of my addiction was excruciating. Today I want to pay it forward, as others did for me. I discovered 12 essential keys that have contributed to my personal recovery.

By |2025-09-22T13:07:13-05:00May 19, 2018|Comments Off on The Gift of Healing

The Fourth Step

Thirty years ago in SA I had an awful experience working on my Fourth Step. I focused solely on my defects of character and acting out behaviors. As I wrote I reacted in shame and acted out sexually. I couldn’t connect with any hope that I could get well or notice the hand of God working in my life. I was worse off after completing my Fourth Step than I was before I started it!

By |2025-09-22T13:17:40-05:00May 19, 2018|Comments Off on The Fourth Step

Twenty More Years

I am grateful for six years of sobriety, starting October 10, 2011. It has been by the grace of God, the support of the fellowship, and a whole lot of work on my part.

By |2025-09-22T13:30:22-05:00February 8, 2018|Comments Off on Twenty More Years

Sexaholic, Mentally Ill, and Sober

I lost 8 years of sexual sobriety and was only able to regain it after discovering a mental health condition which had been undiagnosed since childhood. I had spent a lifetime in counselors’ offices trying to work out what was wrong with me. I came into SA, being one of the founding members of the program in my city. I got sober, worked the Steps, did service, sponsored others, immersed myself in the literature and conference recordings. But I wasn’t “happy, joyous, and free!”

By |2025-09-22T13:30:42-05:00February 8, 2018|Comments Off on Sexaholic, Mentally Ill, and Sober

Step 9: Just Another Day?

Today is November 7th. Three full days after I celebrated my November 4th birthday I still have not gotten any text or phone call from my parents, brother, or my two children. I realize that I am an adult. I told myself over and over again that it was just another day. All my life I was told “a birthday is just another day.” I believed hoping for birthday wishes was selfish and to just move on.

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How NOT to Work the Steps

Jesse became an expert — on the Steps! Here’s the Jesse Step Program: STEP 1: Powerless? “Yes, of course! I can’t stop myself.”

By |2025-09-22T13:34:59-05:00February 8, 2018|Comments Off on How NOT to Work the Steps