It is approved by the organization for use in their fellowship. SLAA publishes the book Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. SLAA encourages recovery from sexual anorexia, emotional anorexia and social anorexia, three related areas of self-deprivation that lead to isolation and often accompany patterns of addictive behavior. Many of those practicing the SLAA recovery program develop the ability to engage in a healthy committed relationship. Examples of bottom-line behaviors might include sexual or romantic activity outside the scope of monogamous relationships, anonymous or casual sex, compulsive avoidance of intimacy or emotional attachment, one-night stands, compulsive masturbation, obsessive fantasy, compulsive attraction to unavailable or abusive partners, and a wide variety of addictive sexual, romantic, or avoidant behaviors. However, these behaviors are never set in stone and may change as SLAA members continue in the program. SLAA encourages members to identify their own "bottom-line behaviors." The organization identifies these behaviors as "any sexual or emotional act, no matter what its initial impulse may be, which leads to loss of control over rate, frequency, or duration of its occurrence or recurrence, resulting in spiritual, mental, physical, emotional, and moral destruction of oneself and others." Maintaining " sobriety" in the SLAA program requires abstaining from one's bottom-line behaviors. COSLAA is another twelve-step fellowship created to support the family members and friends of sex and love addicts. Augustine of Hippo in his work Confessions. SLAA is also sometimes known as the Augustine Fellowship, because early members saw many of their shared symptoms described by St. He founded SLAA as an attempt to stop his compulsive sexual and "romantic" behavior. Though he had been a member of AA for many years, he repeatedly acted out and was serially unfaithful to his wife. SLAA was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1976, by a member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous ( SLAA) is a twelve-step program for people recovering from sex addiction and love addiction.
Sex addiction and love addiction recovery To help you feel welcome, let us know if you have a preference to speak with someone who is a trans or non-binary person.Not to be confused with Sex Addicts Anonymous, Sexaholics Anonymous, Sexual Compulsives Anonymous, or Sexual Recovery Anonymous. SLAA San Francisco – East Bay is a diverse and inclusive fellowship. Leave your name and a phone number where you can be reached on the voice mail and someone will return your call within 24 hours. You can contact the San Francisco / East Bay Intergroup via email at: or at (415) 979-4715. For information about SLAA as a whole, see the Fellowship-Wide Services website. # The San Francisco / East Bay Region Intergroup does not speak for any other regional intergroup, or for SLAA as a whole. ©1985, 2003, 2012 The Augustine Fellowship, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc. Additionally, we try to avoid drawing undue attention to SLAA as a whole from the public media.
We need protect with special care the anonymity of every SLAA member. We find a common denominator in our obsessive/compulsive patterns which transcends any personal differences of sexual orientation or gender identity.
We are, however, united in a common focus: dealing with our addictive sexual and emotional behavior. SLAA is not affiliated with any other organizations, movements or causes, either religious or secular. Our developing a relationship with a Power greater than ourselves which can guide and sustain us in recovery.Īs a fellowship SLAA has no opinion on outside issues and seeks no controversy. Our giving back to the SLAA community what we continue to freely receive. Our practice of the Twelve Step program of recovery to achieve sexual and emotional sobriety. Our capacity to reach out for the supportive fellowship within S.L.A.A. Our willingness to stop acting out in our own personal bottom-line addictive behavior on a daily basis. To counter the destructive consequences of sex and love addiction we draw on five major resources:
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SLAA is supported entirely through the contributions of its membership, and is free to all who need it. The only qualification for SLAA membership is a desire to stop living out a pattern of sex and love addiction. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition-oriented fellowship based on the model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous.
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