Bay Area SAA Welcome
For Newcomers
- Next Meetings
- 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
- Tue. 7PM • San Mateo • San Mateo
- Tue. 7PM • San Francisco • Big Book/1st Step
- Tue. 7PM • Windsor • Hot Seat Book Study
- Tue. 7PM • Tuesday Night Mixed Step/Story/Topic
- Tue. 7PM • SAA Online Text Tuesday
- Tue. 7:30PM • Concord • Newcomers
- Tue. 7:30PM • Palo Alto • 12x12 Study Meeting/Speaker Meeting
- Tue. 7:30PM • San Rafael • Big Book/Speaker
- Tue. 8PM • A Journey to Hope SAA Beginner's Meeting
- Tue. 8PM • SAA Vallarta Spanish Online 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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Bay Area Intergroup • P.O. Box 14754 • San Francisco, CA 94114 |
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Bay Area SAA Announcements
Meeting Cancelled for Thanksgiving
We won't be holding the 7AM Thursday meeting at Most Holy Redeemer this week (San Francisco).
Motorcycle Fun
Outer Circle Activity. Join up! contact: tenderpublishing@icloud.com
Attention:
Because they have no email contact, lots of meetings do not get their recovery literature and announcements.
Please ask all business meetings to send its email contact to: info@bayareasaa.org.
Bay Area Women's Contact Sealed Envelopes
Replenish your BAY AREA WOMENS SEALED ENVELOPES-kristinaanonymous@gmail.com
Area formation has begun!
ELECT YOUR GROUP SERVICE REP Registration forms: brian195410@gmail.com.
Ping Pong Before Recovery
7:30-8:30am 2 tables before the Saturday San Jose meeting.
Intergroup representatives
Please meet at Lutheran Church, 1744 University Avenue, Berkeley, Rm 210
11:15am every 2nd Saturday
An LGBT Intergroup has formed.
To join your meeting to it contact ISO: saa-recovery.org.
Publishing Announcements
Call (415) 456-1063 or send email to info@bayareasaa.org to publish fellowship news and announcements here.