How can SLAA help?
Twelve Step groups work because of action: Action taken by the recovering person to learn how to live our lives a little better each day, to make positive choices, to release old behaviors, and to learn to look outside of ourselves for help. These steps, these actions, work if you work them.
The Steps — The Tools — The Literature
The Twelve Steps of SLAA
- 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 a 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 a 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.
Tools that Help Recovery
Meetings - where we share our experience, strength and hope with each other to better understand our common problem and work together towards the solution.
Telephone - our meeting between meetings. By making contact with others, we begin to break out of the isolation that is so strong an element of the disease.
Sponsorship - two people with the same problem helping each other to work the program. It can provide a framework for a recovery plan and for doing the Twelve Steps, and bring emotional support at difficult times.
Literature - SLAA uses Conference-approved literature, plus our own books and pamphlets.
Twelve Steps - a guiding program of Recovery based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Prayer and Meditation - a means of establishing conscious contact with a Power greater than ourselves, for spiritual healing.
Recovery Plan - a pre-determined way of expressing our sexuality consistent with our values, so that even when confused, we have a written guideline to help us.
Withdrawal - (partial or total). We get support in SLAA by abstaining from behavior, people, places or things that we consider harmful. Without abstinence, recovery is impossible.
Relationships - a way of changing the instant gratification habit and of getting to know more about ourselves and another person before committing ourselves to any sexual decisions. We let go of self-serving power and prestige as driving motives.
Slogans - simple statements that can be used in crisis situations to give some basic guidelines.
Service- a way of helping ourselves by helping others.
Literature List
The literature is generally available at meetings, or you can send a money order to our Ontario Intergroup address, requesting specific literature. You can order literature by e-mail at: slaa.ont.lit@gmail.com. Or you can Download the most recent literature order form in pdf format.
Please note: a Shipping and Handling fee will be applied to out of Toronto orders only (15% of Order Sub-Total)
Books:
SLAA large with title $17.00 each
SLAA large anonymous $17.00 each
AA 4th edition hardcover $10.00 each
AA 4th edition softcover $9.00 each
AA Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions $10.00 each
World Directory of SLAA Meetings $20.00 each
Pocket Meeting $2.00 each
Magidex $5.00 each
Booklets: $7.00 each.
Anorexia Booklet
Withdrawal Booklet
Working the Steps Booklet
Relationships Booklet
Pamphlets: $1.50 each.
Welcome
Questions Beginners Ask
Introduction to Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
Sex and Love Addiction: 40 Questions for Self-Diagnosis
Suggestions for Newcomers
Setting Bottom Lines
Anorexia (Sexual, Social, Emotional)
Withdrawal: Gateway to Freedom, Hope and Joy
Addiction and Recovery
Sponsorship (A Return from Isolation)
Relapse Prevention
Renewal of Sobriety (A worksheet for S.L.A.A members who have had a "slip" or those who are struggling to maintain their Bottom Lines.)
Pamphlets: $0.00 each.
For the Professional: Information about S.L.A.A.
Addicted to Sex? Addicted to Love? (Information about S.L.A.A. for you or someone you know)
Public Information Guidelines
Supporting SLAA the 60/40 Way
Meeting Starter Kits: $0.00 each.
Basic Meeting Starter Kit
Anorexia Meeting Starter Kitt
Intergroup Starter Kit
Plastic Recovery Chips: $1.00 each
(Available in 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, Desire Chip, Step 1 Chip)
Bronze Medallions: $7.00 each
(Available in single medallions of 1 year - 15 years)