For Newcomers

• Welcome
• What is Sex Addiction?
• Am I a Sex Addict?
• For Women
• For GLBTQQI
• Find a Meeting

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 (415) 456-1063 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.

SAA Phone Forums on Best Practices

Monthly calls 2nd Wednesday of each month, 5-6 pm Pacific Time. Contact: info@saa-recovery.org. for call-in information.
The next forum is on: April 8th, 2020: Service Resumes and the Nominating Committee---requirements for international service and how you can participate • May 13th, 2020: Prisoner Outreach and how members can be involved.

A few Meeting CONTACTS are needed!

Online meetings require a contact to share the log-in details for video sharing. But we don't have all of the meeting contacts. Please find your meeting in the list and check. Contact by email: bayareasaaonline@gmail.com.

MEETINGS HAVE TEMPORARILY BECOME ONLINE MEETINGS

Our meeting list has been updated. Please refer to the meeting list (on the Meetings page) for information.

Newcomer phone lines need volunteers

Help is needed for the four individuals who are currently manning the lines (two men and two women). info@bayareasaa.org

RETREAT CANCELLED.

Please see the Events page for updated information.

Elect Group Service Representatives (GSR) For Your Meeting

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 sends a GSR to represent them at the meeting. Each meeting should have a registered a primary and alternate GSR with the ISO. The bay area has 3 Areas (South Bay, SF/Marin and East Bay). That means the bay area will be represented by 3 GSRs.

The general information required for the ISO office form is: Group Code (can be provided by the ISO Office), Group Name, Meeting Day/Time, Meeting Street Address, Meeting City/State/ZIP, GSR name, GSR contact information, Alternate GSR name & information. Email the information to: brian195410@gmail.com.

33rd Annual International SAA Convention: "Envisioning Serenity"

May 22 – 25th Register by May 1 for best convention rates. Contact info@saa-recovery.org for more information.

Donations to Intergroup via PayPal

Use the following address: BAISAApaymentsonly@gmail.com.
If sending a check the old-fashioned way, make it out to BAISAA, Inc.

Publishing Announcements

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