S.L.A.A. is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition oriented recovery fellowship.
S.L.A.A.'s Twelve Steps ©1985 S.L.A.A.
1. We admitted we were
powerless over sex and love addiction - 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 God.
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 God 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 whenever 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 a Power greater than
ourselves, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to
carry that out.
12. 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.
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S.L.A.A.'s Twelve Traditions ©1985 S.L.A.A.
1. Our common welfare
should come first; personal recovery depends upon S.L.A.A. unity.
2. For our group purpose
there is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as this Power may be expressed
through our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do
not govern.
3. The only requirement
for S.L.A.A. membership is the desire to stop living out a pattern of sex
and love addiction. Any two or more persons gathering together for mutual
aid in recovering from sex and love addiction may call themselves an S.L.A.A.
group, provided that as a group they have no other affiliation.
4. Each group should be
autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or S.L.A.A. as a whole.
5. Each group has but one
primary purpose -- to carry its message to the sex and love addict who still
suffers.
6. An S.L.A.A. group or
S.L.A.A. as a whole ought never to endorse, finance, or lend the S.L.A.A.
name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money,
property, or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every S.L.A.A. group
ought to be fully self - supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. S.L.A.A. should remain
forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. S.L.A.A. as such
ought never to be organized, but we may create service boards or committees
directly responsible to those they serve.
10. S.L.A.A. has no opinion
on outside issues, hence the S.L.A.A. name ought never to be drawn into public
controversy.
11. Our public relations
policy is based on attraction rather than on promotion; we need always maintain
personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, film, and other public
media. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all fellow S.L.A.A.
members.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual
foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before
personalities.
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