Steps & Traditions

The Big Book Is the Home Which She’ll Live In for the Rest of Her Life

I have to admit it. I spent a lot of my life searching for a solution. I used to think that I am drowning in a well, and I must find a solution in that well. But that all has changed now. After joining SA, I came to learn that I was looking for a solution in the mud of the problem! I am grateful to God that after I have joined the program, I simply did not leave and run away! I had a feeling, which I wasn’t sure about, but it said “stay in the program”.

By |2024-08-23T13:37:56-05:00September 27, 2022|Comments Off on The Big Book Is the Home Which She’ll Live In for the Rest of Her Life
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The Twelve Traditions as Inventory Questions

In my sponsorship lineage, we work the Traditions after the Steps. Based on what others have taught me and what I have experienced, I put together the following handout in which I try to boil down each Tradition to a word for phrase that best expresses the principle it represents followed by inventory questions to guide my application of the Tradition.

By |2023-09-08T16:00:26-05:00September 27, 2022|Comments Off on The Twelve Traditions as Inventory Questions
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It Works if You Work It

This is one of the program slogans that stuck in my mind after I attended my first SA virtual meeting here in the Philippines. I was afraid and hesitant to attend an SA meeting because I was in denial and doubtful that I am a sex addict, but still forced myself to join that meeting as I was afraid to lose my wife and kids

By |2023-09-08T16:16:49-05:00August 2, 2022|Comments Off on It Works if You Work It
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The Stairway to Spirituality in Recovery

I practice no organized religion, but I may refer to specific religious traditions here because of their being examples related to my journey. In November 1985 I stopped acting out by means of chemical castration. This was because of life-threatening behaviors that were occurring as a part of my acting out. There was no emotional or spiritual treatment combined with it.

By |2023-09-08T16:31:20-05:00May 31, 2022|Comments Off on The Stairway to Spirituality in Recovery
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The Higher Power I Defined in Step Three Is Always with Me

I have a recovery buddy who recently adopted a dog. Having been without a dog for several months, he was so excited when he was finally able to bring “Leroy Brown” home with him. That excitement was quickly joined by frustration.

By |2023-09-08T16:34:37-05:00May 31, 2022|Comments Off on The Higher Power I Defined in Step Three Is Always with Me
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Giving Away My Step One

My name is Catherine and my sobriety date is 31 March, 2021. Since I was a very young child, I have used my imagination to escape from reality. At a very early point that I can’t remember the impetus for, I began to be fascinated by and create narratives around corporal punishment.

By |2024-08-23T14:08:21-05:00April 10, 2022|Comments Off on Giving Away My Step One
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Sponsoring Through Bars—Working Tradition Five As a Group

When I became the IGR of the Dutch Intergroup in 2018, I joined the regional (EMER) Correctional Facilities Committee because I realized I could have been arrested for many a column in the chronicle of my powerlessness and unmanageability. Soon, I offered my service as secretary. Thus moving “to the middle of the SA life raft” I met a lot of trusted servants from the US who were involved in the worldwide CFC service.

By |2023-09-06T16:02:08-05:00February 6, 2022|Comments Off on Sponsoring Through Bars—Working Tradition Five As a Group
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It Comes Down to Trust In My Higher Power

The words of Step Two roll off my lips. “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” They are so easy to repeat. I think, “Of course I believe in a Higher Power, otherwise I wouldn’t be here.” I ask myself, “Really?”

By |2024-07-12T13:52:48-05:00December 13, 2021|Comments Off on It Comes Down to Trust In My Higher Power
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Reflections on Tradition One

When Eddie Rickenbacker’s plane ran out of gas over the Pacific during World War II, he and his crew were in a perilous situation. Adrift on the ocean with three rafts and four oranges, they had to pull together or die.

By |2024-07-12T13:52:32-05:00December 13, 2021|Comments Off on Reflections on Tradition One
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