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Our Mission
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (S.L.A.A.) is a 12 Step - 12 Tradition
oriented fellowship based on the model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous.
The program began on December 30, 1976 in Boston, MA when a member of
another 12 step fellowship found he needed additional support relating to his
sex/love/relationship issues, than what was offered in the other fellowship.
Meetings began in members' homes and shortly thereafter moved to
Churches and the name "The St. Augustine Fellowship of Sex and Love
Addicts Anonymous" came into existence to satisfy the questions of church
board members who weren't initially open to Sex and Love Addicts meeting at
their facilities. Today the meetings are held in all states and in more than
seven countries Internationally.
The only qualification for membership is a desire to stop living out a pattern of
sex and love addiction. To counter the destructive forces of sex and love
addiction we draw on five major resources:
1. Sobriety. Our willingness to stop acting out in our own personal
bottom-line addictive behavior on a daily basis;
2. Sponsorship/Meetings. Our capacity to reach out for the supportive
fellowship within S.L.A.A.;
3. Steps. Our practice of the Twelve Step program of recovery to achieve
sexual and emotional sobriety;
4. Service. Our giving back to the S.L.A.A. Community what we continue to
freely receive; and
5. Spirituality. Our developing a relationship with a Power greater than
ourselves which can guide and sustain us in recovery.
We use the 5 resources to counter the destructive consequences of one or
more addictive behaviors related to sex addiction, love addiction, dependency
on romantic attachments, emotional dependency and sexual, social and
emotional anorexia.
We find a common denominator in our obsessive, compulsive patterns which
renders any personal differences of sexual or gender orientation irrelevant.
Some of us have found that our stories formed in other fellowships that
mentioned our addictive nature did not simply cease to exist after we stopped
drinking and using.
Sadly, obsession and compulsion had continued to run us, albeit in other
areas. Sobriety from alcohol had brought many blessings indeed, but for
some, in itself was incomplete.
Welcome home. This group may be of help to you.
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (S.L.A.A.) is a 12 Step - 12 Tradition
oriented fellowship based on the model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous.
The program began on December 30, 1976 in Boston, MA when a member of
another 12 step fellowship found he needed additional support relating to his
sex/love/relationship issues, than what was offered in the other fellowship.
Meetings began in members' homes and shortly thereafter moved to
Churches and the name "The St. Augustine Fellowship of Sex and Love
Addicts Anonymous" came into existence to satisfy the questions of church
board members who weren't initially open to Sex and Love Addicts meeting at
their facilities. Today the meetings are held in all states and in more than
seven countries Internationally.
The only qualification for membership is a desire to stop living out a pattern of
sex and love addiction. To counter the destructive forces of sex and love
addiction we draw on five major resources:
1. Sobriety. Our willingness to stop acting out in our own personal
bottom-line addictive behavior on a daily basis;
2. Sponsorship/Meetings. Our capacity to reach out for the supportive
fellowship within S.L.A.A.;
3. Steps. Our practice of the Twelve Step program of recovery to achieve
sexual and emotional sobriety;
4. Service. Our giving back to the S.L.A.A. Community what we continue to
freely receive; and
5. Spirituality. Our developing a relationship with a Power greater than
ourselves which can guide and sustain us in recovery.
We use the 5 resources to counter the destructive consequences of one or
more addictive behaviors related to sex addiction, love addiction, dependency
on romantic attachments, emotional dependency and sexual, social and
emotional anorexia.
We find a common denominator in our obsessive, compulsive patterns which
renders any personal differences of sexual or gender orientation irrelevant.
Some of us have found that our stories formed in other fellowships that
mentioned our addictive nature did not simply cease to exist after we stopped
drinking and using.
Sadly, obsession and compulsion had continued to run us, albeit in other
areas. Sobriety from alcohol had brought many blessings indeed, but for
some, in itself was incomplete.
Welcome home. This group may be of help to you.
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