Bay Area SAA Welcome
For Newcomers
- Next Meetings
- Mon. 9PM • Monday Late Night Recovery
- 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
- 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 SAA Contact Us
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(415) 456-1063 |
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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 Intergroup •
P.O. Box 14754 • San Francisco, CA 94114 Members may contribute to Intergroup by sending a check payable to "Bay Area Intergroup" to the PO Box listed above. |
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General Info: info@bayareasaa.org Información General: espanol@bayareasaa.org Meeting List Updates/Requests: meetinglist@bayareasaa.org Women Seeking Recovery: women@bayareasaa.org GLBTQQI Seeking Recovery: glbt@bayareasaa.org Out of the Fog Newsletter: Click here |
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Bay Area SAA Announcements
Giving Thanks November 16th -- 12 Noon to 3 PM
Please join us in our 17th annual fundraising event! Flyers with Berkeley location can be found at meetings. Call (415) 456-1063 or email info@bayareasaa.org.
$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.
Attention All Meetings - Call to action
Elect A Group Service Representatives (GSR) For Your Meeting. Each meeting should have a registered a primary and alternate GSR with the ISO. What is a GSR? GSR’s meet at least once a year, with the other GSR’s in their area to discuss items to be voted on for the annual conference. Each area will send a GSR to represent them at the meeting. The Bay Area has 3 areas (South Bay, SF and East Bay). So that means the Bay Area will be represented by 3 GSRs at the upcoming October Conference. Have your meeting elect one and register them at https://www.saa-iso.org/mbrs/gsr/index.php.
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.
Holiday Jam - Thursday, December 5th, 8:30 - 10:00 pm
United Methodist Church, 655 Magdalena Ave., Los Altos
Annual holiday jam following the Los Altos evening meeting. Bring your musical instruments, voices and join in a variety of holiday musical merrymaking. Bring a snack to share if you like.
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
New location, time for Monday meeting (formerly in El Cerrito)
Step Study/Meditation/Speaker, 7 PM at 3415 Barrett Ave., Richmond CA 94805. Enter from rear look for sign on door that says 12 Step Meeting. @34th St. (Open to visitors).
New Zoom meeting
“Healthy Intimate Relationships” Zoom (online) meeting, Tuesdays at 5:30 pm PT This is a blended meeting, hosted by COSA, in which SAA members and their affected partners are welcome to join, together or separately, whether they are in a current relationship or not. This meeting uses the 12 steps and traditions to help us develop a greater capacity for empathy and emotional intimacy in our primary love relationships. contact hir.zoom@yahoo.com for meeting ID and password
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