Bay Area SAA Welcome
For Newcomers
- Next Meetings
- Sun. 3:15AM • SAA Daily Call
- Sun. 4AM • Sunday Serenity
- Sun. 5AM • Women Sunday Skype Voice
- Sun. 7AM • 12-Step Big Book Study Telemeeting
- Sun. 7AM • Sunday Morning Hope and Recovery Men's Group,
- Sun. 7:15AM • Emeryville • Sunday Sunrise Spiritual Solutions Meeting
- Sun. 8AM • Sunday 8 am PST Literature
- Sun. 9AM • San Francisco • Answers In the Heart
- Sun. 11AM • Freedom Through Recovery
- Sun. 11AM • European WebCall - Sunday (90 minutes)
- Sun. 2PM • Original Sunday Afternoon Women's TeleMeeting
- Sun. 4PM • Berkeley • Step Study/Speaker
- Sun. 4PM • Santa Rosa • Healthy Intimate Relationships
- Sun. 5PM • Oakland • Oakland Sunday Fellowship
- Sun. 5PM • SAA Call Sunday
- Sun. 5PM • A Journey to Hope Step Study - Sunday
- Sun. 6PM • Big Book 12-Step Study TeleMeeting
- Sun. 6PM • Women's Absolute SAA Study Group
- Sun. 6PM • Sunday Night Women's SAA Big Book Topic Meeting
- Sun. 6PM • Sunday GLBTQ Telemeeting
- More Meetings…
What is Sex Addiction?
Sex Addiction can involve a wide variety of practices. Sometimes an addict has trouble with just one unwanted behavior, sometimes with many. A large number of sex addicts say their unhealthy use of sex has been a progressive process. It may have started with an addiction to masturbation, pornography (either printed or electronic), or a relationship, but over the years progressed to increasingly dangerous behaviors.
The essence of all addiction is the addicts' experience of powerlessness over a compulsive behavior, resulting in their lives becoming unmanageable. The addict is out of control and experiences tremendous shame, pain and self-loathing. The addict may wish to stop --- yet repeatedly fails to do so. The unmanageability of addicts' lives can be seen in the consequences they suffer: losing relationships, difficulties with work, arrests, financial troubles, a loss of interest in things not sexual, low self-esteem and despair.
Sexual preoccupation takes up tremendous amounts of energy. As this increases for the sex addict, a pattern of behavior (or rituals) follows, which usually leads to acting out (for some it is flirting, searching the net for pornography, or driving to the park.) When the acting out happens, there is a denial of feelings usually followed by despair and shame or a feeling of hopelessness and confusion.
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Men's newcomer line: (510) 906-1644 |
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Women's newcomer line: (510) 863-0788 |
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Bay Area SAA Announcements
$96,000 LifeLine Partner Challenge
Matching Gift Challenge for ISO LifeLine Partners
• Starts October 1, 2019; Ends When the $96,000 matching fund is depleted or May 31, 2020.
• Only new or increased Monthly LifeLine Partner enrollments will qualify for the match.
Write For Out Of The Fog - Our Newsletter
All contributions are welcome on your recovery, the Steps, an epiphany you had or
any other wisdom you wish to share. Send all submissions to
newsletter@bayareasaa.org.
Featured Literature
In the past year there were two new pamphlets that came out. Both can be found at
https://saa-recovery.org/literature.
Hope of Recovery -
Offers a good overview of the SAA program.
Recommitting to Recovery -
For those who are coming back to work the program.
Sex Addicts Recovery Podcast
Volunteers Wanted For Thumbnail Artwork. Contact Jason T: taboadafett@gmail.com
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