Voices of Recovery
October 16
Emotions are an important part of my life today. They help me to understand myself and my relationship to the world….
October 17
Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or SAA as a whole….
October 18
We address our sharing to the whole group, not to one or more individuals…
October 19
For example, work may require that an employee use the Internet, or an SAA member might live with other people who subscribe to an online service. If we had legitimate need for Internet access, we found it helpful to be accountable to a sexually sober member of the fellowship…
October 21
When we were active in our addiction, it was difficult to stop our sexual preoccupations….
October 22
These last two years, I have felt more hurt than at any previous time in my life. But I do not feel the guilt and shame and lack of control of actively living out my addiction….
October 23
I am encouraged to focus, not so much upon not acting out, or even avoiding middle-circle behaviors, as on practicing a new way of living that brings wholeness and integrity to everything I do….
October 24
To be restored to sanity is to rediscover the spiritual nature we have always had but which was hidden by the insanity of our disease…
October 25
One way in which God’s love has been evident is the support I have received from friends with whom I have been honest….