Sex and love addicts anonymous twelve steps

The Twelve Traditions are reprinted andДЄdapted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. *В©1985 The Augustine Fellowship, S.L.A.A., Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all fellow S.L.A.A. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, film, and other public media. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.ДЎ1. has no opinion on outside issues hence the S.L.A.A. as such ought never be organized but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.ДЎ0. should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employД©. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.ДЁ. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money,В property, or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.Д§. as a whole ought never endorse, finance, or lend the S.L.A.A. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the sex and love addict who still suffers.Д¦. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or S.L.A.A. group, provided that as a group they have no other affiliation.Д¤. Any two or more persons gathered together for mutual aid in recovering from sex and love addiction may call themselves an S.L.A.A. membership is a desire to stop living out a pattern of sex and love addiction. Our leaders are but trusted servants they do not govern.ДЈ. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as this Power may be expressed through our group conscience. Our common welfare should come first personal recovery depends upon S.L.A.A. Use of the Twelve Steps in connection with programsДЄnd activities, which are patterned after A.A., but which address other problems, does not imply otherwise.ДЎ. is a program of recovery from alcoholism only. Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Steps does not mean thatДЄ.A. The Twelve Steps are reprinted andДЄdapted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. * В©1985 The Augustine Fellowship, S.L.A.A., Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to sex and love addicts and to practice these principles in all areas of our lives. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with a Power greater than ourselves, praying only for knowledge of GodвЂ™s will for us and the power to carry that out.ДЎ2. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.ДЎ1. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.ДЎ0. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.Д©. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.ДЁ. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.Д§. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.Д¦.

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.ДҐ.

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.Д¤. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.ДЈ. We admitted we were powerless over sex and love addiction вЂ“ that our lives hadВ become unmanageable.Дў.

Sex and love addicts anonymous twelve steps