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Recovery Plan

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Often times when we travel, vacation or get out of our normal routine, we can have problems. It’s important to have a plan when we break our routine. Without a plan we can flounder and white knuckle or way through this time. We may not be able to do recovery the same exact way as when we are home, but with a good recovery plan we can stay close to our higher power and have a successful visit. Below is a worksheet to think through our trip, make decisions and come up with a good plan. This only works if we implement our plan and put it into action when we are out.

Here are some questions that you may ask yourself to help prepare during a time where you are out of your routine, such as on vacation or just visiting a family member’s or friend’s home during the holidays for example:

Recovery Plan Questions

  1. Morning Prayer – What is the plan for my morning prayer during this time?
  2. Daily Reading – What is the plan for my daily reading during this time?
  3. Meetings – What is the plan for attending meetings during the time?
  4. Phone Calls – What is the plan for making calls during this time?
  5. Other Support – What are other ways I can have fellowship or get support during this time?
  6. What are potential triggers I am anticipating during this time?
  7. What is my plan to handle the triggers?

Accountability – Who will I be accountable to during this time? (This is at least one person I will
keep in the loop as to how I am doing)

Other limitations – Are their other things I should limit or make a decision to withhold during this time? (Stuff like alcohol, watching TV alone etc.)

What is my emergency action plan in case I get off track? What adjustments will I make if I have more than one bad day and can’t get back on track?

What would you choose to be a part of. your recovery plan?

Service Opportunities

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Sexaholics anonymous service opportunities exist at a basic level all the way up to international.

Sponsorship

Being a sponsor can be a great service opportunity. This is the most prevalent opportunity existing at all times.

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even a phone call can be service

Correctional Facilities Committee

Would you correspond with a prison inmate?
The Regional Corrections Committee is looking for sponsors for prison inmates who have asked SA for one. If you’re interested, please contact Neal B at 702-840-4585 or by email at [email protected]. Requirements for being a sponsor are 6 months sobriety, have a sponsor, be working Step 8, and discuss this service with your sponsor. See the full requirements in Sponsorship Guidelines.

Intergroup

Sexaholics anonymous service for each meeting should have an intergroup representative. We also have rotations of the Intergroup Chair, The Treasurer, The Secretary.

Website and Technology

We have opportunities to serve with technology.

Retreat Committee

We host a retreat every other year that our intergroup forms a committee to run.

Sexaholics Anonymous Service Manual:

What Can a Newcomer Do To Get Involved in Service?

Much of what follows is the result of a group conscience that asked the above question and was seeking answers as to how the group and Intergroup might carry the message more effectively to the newcomer. Experience has shown us that doing many of these things will assist the newcomer in establishing a new simple life style which focuses on a desire to stop lusting. Using service as a tool of recovery helps in the removal of obsessive thinking by focusing outside oneself.

Early Days

• Stay sober.
• Join a home group.
• Attend meetings regularly.
• Work the Steps.
• Set out and put away literature before and after a meeting.
• Obtain telephone numbers and call someone instead of acting out.
• Get a sponsor. Give a sponsor an opportunity for service, too!
• Anniversary Meetings––volunteer to set up, breakdown, and cleanup after.
• Attend marathons, help setup and cleanup; prepare and serve food.
• Walk up to an unfamiliar face and introduce yourself.
• Arrive at meetings early for fellowship and participate in fellowship after meetings.
• Attend International conventions; meet other newcomers.

Twelve Traditions of Sexaholics Anonymous

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These are the Twelve Traditions of Sexaholics Anonymous

  1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on SA unity.
  2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority – a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
  3. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop lusting and become sexually sober.
  4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or Sexaholics Anonymous as a whole.
  5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to the sexaholic who still suffers.
  6. An SA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the SA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
  7. Every SA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
  8. Sexaholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
  9. SA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
  10. Sexaholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the SA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
  11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, and TV.
  12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

In Sexaholics Anonymous our program is based on AA, so the Twelve Traditions are reprinted in for adaptation with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

Twelve Steps of Sexaholics Anonymous

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These are the Twelve Steps of Sexaholics Anonymous

  1. We admitted that we were powerless over lust — that our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to sexaholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

In Sexaholics Anonymous our program is based on AA, so the Twelve Steps are reprinted in for adaptation with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.