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.

Share your voice and energy on Inclusion and Diversity committee

o At the international level
o Saturday January 23rd at 8am
o Contact Bob L (boblisoboard@gmail.com) and/or Chris (chrisf@saa-iso.net)

o At the local level
o Wednesdays at 6pm
Contact Fiona F twelvestepsrule@gmail.com

Feb. 6th at 6 PM Bay Area SAA & COSA Quarterly Speakers Meeting

This collaborative event will happen once every three months and will feature a speaker from both SAA & COSA, just like at the International Convention. There will be time for shares after each speaker.
Anyone is welcome to attend this open meeting, including partners/spouses and adult family members. Zoom information is below:
Meeting ID: 837 2934 5573
Phone: 669-900-9128
Contact for password Michael N. at (203) 414-0103

New Log-in Credentials for 11th Step Weekday Morning Meditation

Beginning Tuesday January 19th.
7:30 to 8 AM; Dial: 669 900 6833; Meeting ID: 890 7132 6209#
For password call +1 (909) 576-8017.

New/Old meeting revamped

Evidently the Happy Destiny Wednesday 1:10 PM (Open/Mixed) Meeting could not be accessed--until now! The question is whether it could be re-populated. One offer for Secretary has been received. password=Wednesday

San Jose

Jon M is interested in finding members in the San Jose area to meet in-person (socially distanced, outdoors). Please contact Jon M 929-777-0408 for more information.

Hybrid Meetings?

Are you holding a successful hybrid meeting (in person and virtual)? If so Bay Area Intergroup is looking to hear about best practices for this through a panel on how to hold a successful hybrid meeting. Please contact info@bayareasaa.org.

Publishing Announcements

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