Shame
February 3
“A profound turning point in my recovery happened when I faced and embraced the pain of the emptiness I felt inside, which…
February 23
Best of all, the secret is out. There’s something liberating about sitting in a room announcing to others … that I am a sex addict….
March 26
We do not have to obsess about the past or worry about the future. We can turn our attention to the present, where we really live, and become open to new solutions….
April 13
For the first time I felt that I had a home and a family who supported me, understood me, and let me unload all my shame….
April 14
Some of us write a history of our sex addiction, from as far back as we can remember up to the present, trying to leave nothing out….
June 3
With this step, we recognize that we have a disease, not a mere weakness or character flaw, and that we are powerless to change this fact….
June 6
Rather than struggling with our life’s challenges as if we are alone and need to ‘figure it out’ ourselves, we share our thoughts and feelings with our Higher Power…
September 27
It is the feeling that we are never good enough, that there is something wrong with us, that we are bad people. Shame played a part in the addictive cycle, undermining our resistance to
acting out….
November 4
The First Step is a matter of honesty and openness—in the shadows of aloneness we can trip and bury ourselves in shame….