Bay Area SAA Welcome
For Newcomers
- Next Meetings
- Tue. 3:15AM • SAA Daily Call
- Tue. 6AM • Tuesday Morning SAA Big Book Study
- Tue. 6AM • Intimacy in Partnership (for anorexics/sex addicts who are in a relationship)
- Tue. 8AM • A Mindful Path to Recovery
- Tue. 9AM • Intimacy & Sexual Avoidance
- Tue. 9AM • Joy of Living Women's Meeting
- Tue. 9AM • Tuesday 9AM Solutions Group
- Tue. 10AM • Women Setting Boundaries
- Tue. 12PM • Oakland • Newcomer's Meeting
- Tue. 12:10PM • San Francisco • Internet & Sexual Sobriety
- Tue. 5PM • Tuesday Talking About Recovery (1 hour)
- Tue. 5PM • Tuesday Womens Newcomer Telemeeting
- Tue. 5PM • A Journey to Hope Step Study - Tuesday
- Tue. 6PM • Concord • Next Step
- Tue. 6PM • San Francisco • 12 x 12/1st Step (Chips on 1st Tues)
- Tue. 6PM • Petaluma • Green Book/Discussion
- Tue. 6PM • Womens Absolute SAA Meeting Tuesday
- Tue. 6PM • Women Tuesday Skype Voice
- Tue. 7PM • Berkeley • Green Book Study
- Tue. 7PM • Pleasanton • Pleasanton Tuesday Night Meeting
- 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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Women's newcomer line: (510) 863-0788 |
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SAA Phone Forums on Best Practices
Monthly calls by General Outreach Committee Members 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7- 8pm Central Time. Contact: info@saa-recovery.org. for call-in information.
The next forum is on: February 12th 2020:
Topic is attracting members to service (General Outreach Committee members discuss what brought them to service).
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Annual SAA Retreat March 13-15
At Walker Creek Ranch. Please see Events page for more information and to register.
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