The 12 Steps and Traditions - At A Glance
Outline of Understanding The 12 Steps & Traditions
Literature Understanding The 12 Steps & Traditions
Outline of Understanding The 12 Steps & Traditions
Speakers & Conversations 12 Steps and Traditions
Literature Understanding The 12 Steps & Traditions
Outline of Understanding The 12 Steps & Traditions
Literature Understanding The 12 Steps & Traditions
Literature Understanding The 12 Steps & Traditions
Literature Understanding The 12 Steps & Traditions
SLAA Meetings Focused on The 12 Steps & Traditions
SLAA Meetings Focused on The 12 Steps & Traditions
Literature Understanding The 12 Steps & Traditions
Tools To Start Using The 12 Steps & Traditions
SLAA Meetings Focused on The 12 Steps & Traditions
Tools To Start Using The 12 Steps & Traditions
THE 12 STEPS AND TRADITIONS - OUTLINE
12 Steps and Traditions As Defined By SLAA Litature
Our practice of the Twelve Step program of recovery to achieve sexual and emotional sobriety.
The Twelve Steps were originally formulated by Bill W., a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in 1938 . . . Their timelessness after half a century, and their applicability to a different specific addiction such as ours, are tributes to their psychological and spiritual insight and to the high quality of their writing. One thing is clear. The Twelve Steps, as originally set forth in Alcoholics Anonymous, do provide a comprehensive and thorough approach to the problem of dealing with addiction, including sex and love addiction. Our gratitude for the efforts of the early A.A. pioneers is very great. Our expression of it must necessarily fall far short of sufficiently honoring their tremendous achievements.
©2006 The Augustine Fellowship, S.L.A.A., Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc.
Excerpt from https://slaafws.org/no-meetings
The Twelve Steps of S.L.A.A.
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, p 66 and 67
©1985 The Augustine Fellowship, S.L.A.A., Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc. All rights reserved.
- We admitted we were powerless over sex and love addiction – that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with a Power greater than ourselves, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
- 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.
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted and adapted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions does not mean that A.A. is affiliated with this program. A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism only. Use of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after A.A., but which addresses other problems, does not imply otherwise.
©2006 The Augustine Fellowship, S.L.A.A., Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc.
Excerpt from https://slaafws.org/no-meetings
Tip: Work the Steps thoroughly... This work should be done with the help of a sponsor or an understanding member of the clergy, or if neither are available, a therapist.
©2006 The Augustine Fellowship, S.L.A.A., Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc.
Excerpt from https://slaafws.org/no-meetings
Tip: Purchase the “Newcomer’s Packet” and Basic Text and read them. It is also important to read the books upon which our program was founded, Alcoholics Anonymous (especially chapters 5-7) and AA’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, substituting the words “sex and love addiction” and “our addiction” for “alcoholism” and “alcohol.” These books may be purchased from any vendor.
©2006 The Augustine Fellowship, S.L.A.A., Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc.
Excerpt from https://slaafws.org/no-meetings
THE 12 STEPS AND TRADITIONS - LITERATURE RESOURCES
SLAA Pamphlet: Setting Bottom Lines
Conference-approved by S.L.A.A., this pamphlet helps the reader understand what bottom lines are and how to use them.
SLAA Basic Text
Conference-approved by S.L.A.A., this book provides insight into the problem of sex and love addiction, information on working the 12 steps of S.L.A.A., the history of Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous, personal stories from members of the program and much more. The SLAA basic text interprets AA's program to give support to recovering sex and love addicts.
Borrow A Digital Version Of The SLAA Basic Text
Connect to Internet Archive and create an account and they have a limited number of copies of the SLAA Basic Text they loan out for 14 days.
NEW RECORDING
21 March 2024 - Jane speaking at the Red Reading Group spoke on learning to apply the 12 steps to relationships by using our sponsoring relationships as practice.