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A Special Welcome to Women

Ideas for Beginning in SAA

The San Francisco Bay Area fellowship of Sex Addicts Anonymous has made it a priority to ensure that women who are interested in our fellowship feel welcome and safe in our meetings. Many women have found serenity and freedom in the rooms of SAA. Please join us.

Local Resources for Women

If you would like to speak to a woman sex addict in the Bay Area about our program, call 510-426-6420. or email women@bayareasaa.org and leave a message stating that you would like to talk with a woman about your situation. A woman from our fellowship will get back to you. We can arrange for a woman to accompany you to a meeting or to give you the code for special women's teleconference meetings.

Other Resources for Women

If you wish to tap into the national network of women via e-mail, visit saa-recovery.org/ForWomen.

A Woman Sex Addict Shares her Experience

I am very grateful to have found SAA and sobriety in 2004 in Miami Beach, Florida. SAA had just started there and meetings were often 2 or 3 people, if that. There were only 2 or 3 meetings a week. The shame I felt at facing my sex addiction was overwhelming. I cried at every meeting (and as a home group friend recently reminded me, all the way through every meeting!) During that first year, I finally learned that I didn't have to act out, and I learned that I had never known that I had that right. As my sobriety took hold, I started to have a sense of personal dignity I had never before experienced.

There were always women at those early meetings, and I was the one who spoke to every woman who called the number on our little website. We learned to be creative, grateful for what we had, and put each other's sobriety first. I got sober in a group of people who had to learn by getting sober together.

When I moved to San Francisco in 2005, the picture was truly different. There are 48 meetings a week here, some with a hundred people, and I am frequently the only woman. I was warmly welcomed and invited to meetings and fellowship everywhere. At the beginning, I pretty much hung out with the gay men until I got to know everyone. Now I have so many friends and I am involved in service and love my SAA life. sobriety, and spiritual growth.

We are working hard to make it easier for women to join the fellowship and stay. The truth is, it's hard for all of us—men and women. It takes such tremendous courage to take that first step, to pick up the phone and call, or to walk in to a meeting. Please know that there are so many of us who have been where you are, and we are all waiting to help you. You don't have to suffer alone any more.

Exploring Inclusion and Diversity in SAA January 29th at 8 AM PST

This will be a half day event to explore and celebrate diversity and inclusion in SAA. The day will include speaker meetings, a workshop, discussion in breakout rooms and time for reflection. To get involved and offer service at this event or to find out more information, including the PASSWORD, contact: idc@saa-recovery.org.
4-8.30pm UTC 10 am-2.30pm CT.
Meeting ID: 809 198 3822.

Bay Area SAA & COSA Quarterly Speakers Meeting

The first quarterly Speakers Meeting for SAA & COSA of this year will be Saturday, February 5th at 5:30 PST! We have two wonderful speakers, Bennett D (SAA) from Oakland and Brian T (COSA) from the Bay Area who will share their experience, strength and hope with us.
Join Meeting here
Meeting ID: 837 2934 5573
Contact for more info Michael N. at MPN121@gmail.com

"Working the Steps"

Workshop starts on zoom Saturday January 8, 2022 at 7:15-8:15am P.S.T. Here is the invite: https://bit.ly/2022SAAWorkshopInvite

SAA Outreach

SAA has 2140 meetings in over 80 official SAA areas throughout the world. Help carry the message FURTHER to ALL Sex Addicts that still suffer.

The Inclusion and Diversity Committee (IDC) helps deepen our understanding of inclusion, diversity and recovery in our fellowship.

Serve our fellowship with your skills. • Current talents needed:
◦ Translating literature into Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, and Hindi. And other major languages needed, Farsi, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Filipino/Tagalog
◦ Basic video editing and Zoom proficiency for upcoming events.

To get involved, contact Fiona at twelvestepsrule@gmail.com or Rey at rey_g@sputnik57.com.
Ask to be added to the IDC email list at info@saa-recovery.org.

Publishing Announcements

Call (415) 456-1063 or send email to info@bayareasaa.org to publish fellowship news and announcements here.