Bay Area SAA Welcome
For Newcomers
- Next Meetings
- Sat. 10AM • Berkeley • Spiritual Solutions
- Sat. 11:15AM • San Francisco • Healthy Intimate Relationships
- Sat. 1PM • Men's Step Study
- Sat. 3PM • Mixed Open Intimacy and Sexual Avoidance
- Sat. 5PM • Saturday Evening Womens Telemeeting
- Sat. 5:15PM • San Francisco • Reading/Speaker
- Sat. 6PM • Saturday Evening TeleMeeting
- Sat. 6PM • Sober Sisters SAA
- Sat. 6PM • SAA Online Text Saturday
- Sat. 7PM • El Cerrito • Step Workout
- Sat. 9PM • Saturday Late Night Recovery
- Sat. 9PM • Big Book Step Study: Step 11 with Meditation Practice
- Sun. 3:15AM • SAA Daily Call
- Sun. 4AM • Sunday Serenity
- Sun. 5AM • Women Sunday Skype Voice
- Sun. 6:45AM • Emeryville • Sunday Sunrise Spiritual Solutions Meeting
- Sun. 7AM • 12-Step Big Book Study Telemeeting
- Sun. 7AM • Sunday Morning Hope and Recovery Men's Group,
- Sun. 8AM • Sunday 8 am PST Literature
- Sun. 9AM • San Francisco • Answers In the Heart
- More Meetings…
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.
Bay Area SAA Contact Us
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(415) 456-1063 |
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Bay Area Intergroup • P.O. Box 14754 • San Francisco, CA 94114 |
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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: newsletter@bayareasaa.org |
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Bay Area SAA Announcements
BIG NEW YEAR SPONSORSHIP
Panel and Discussion of all aspects. Get a sponsor! Learn how to sponsor!
27 Jan, Sunday: 1-4pm: 2951 Derby Street, Berkeley: Contact Brett: 760-650 5735
Easy Free Parking. Entrance on and Park on Derby only. Bus 79 from Rockridge BART.
Women's Sponsor-Sponsee-Connection Tele-meeting
First Tues: 5:30pm Pacific Time: Info: 267-332-4698 saawomensig@gmail.com
SAA BAY AREA ANNUAL RETREAT
March 15-17, Fri, Sat, Sun.
Please see Events page to sign up online or download flier! Workshops, Dance, No-Talent Show, Recovery Galore
In beautiful Marin Walker Creek Ranch
Volunteer for Service. For directions, fliers and info Contact: vlsales@me.com
Get Your Latest Edition of OUT OF THE FOG
Write for it! OR subscribe: newsletter@bayareasaa.org.
New Meeting!!
Fremont 8am Saturday, Kaiser, 39400 Paseo Padre Parkway 94538 Room H-109
ELECT YOUR GROUP SERVICE REP
GSR Registration forms: brian195410@gmail.com.
NEW-TO-SAA- BAY AREA SEALED ENVELOPES for women
To replenish, contact: kristinaanonymous@gmail.com
Be a Newcomer Phone Servant
Contact: kristinaanonymous@gmail.com
Attention: Business Meetings
Please send an email contact to: info@bayareasaa.org.
Be An Intergroup Rep
Lutheran. Ch, 1744 University. Ave, Berkeley, Rm 210, 11:15am, 2nd Sat.
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.