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When the road ahead of you seems to have no end, And when it’s rough and rocky at every turn and bend, When you’re tired and weary, and feel you’ve lost your way, When you face new roadblocks each and every day, When just getting started requires an uphill climb, Do not be discouraged– take [...]
. . . a reflection on the 2010 ISO of SAA “Long Live the Miracles” International Conference. Todd W., IISAA Delegate My experience this past weekend continues to give me much to reflect on. My experience is not unique. I went both as a delegate for the Indiana Intergroup of SAA and as an attendee [...]
Richard S. In SAA, personal recovery should always come first. However, there is a part of recovery that gets very little recognition, and that is service work. What is service work? Service work can be as simple as chairing a meeting or becoming the Intergroup representative for your meeting. When does service work become a [...]
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A poem by Portia Nelson Chapter One: I walk down the street.
Two individuals recently made donations of $500 each to IISAA. It was pointed out that these gifts violated our bylaws which limit such personal gifts to $200. Intergroup voted to correct this oversight by returning $300 to each donor. Following much discussion of this point and in a subsequent group conscience vote, it was decided [...]
IISAA’s 2010 – 2011 Theme The Twelfth Step of SAA states that: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other sex addicts and to practice these principles in our lives. In Chapter 3 of our basic text, Sex Addicts Anonymous, we learn: For some [...]
Adapted from an email A member of a certain 12-Step group, who previously had been attending meetings regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, his sponsor decided to visit him. It was a chilly evening. The sponsor found the sponsee at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Knowing the reason for his sponsor’s visit, [...]
Pornography and in particular Internet pornography are a plague on modern society. Here are some random stats from a variety of sources: The number one search term used at search engine sites is “sex”. 70% of 18 to 24 year old men visit pornographic sites in a typical month.