Foundation Principles          

 

             It is our understanding that man’s purpose on earth is to do the will of God.  We addicts, however, are profoundly stubborn and self-centered; we recognize no will but our own.  For us, God has devised our addiction as an invitation to holiness. Our addiction brings us, helpless, to our knees.  Facing something will destroy us and which we are wholly unable to evade, placate or control, we turn in desperation to God.  And he answers us.

 

             The Twelve Steps are a path that brings us to surrender to the will of the God of our understanding. The steps nowhere promise us sobriety.  Nor do they promise us that our defects of character will be taken from us.  What they do promise us is, first, conscious contact with God and, at the end, a spiritual awakening. The gifts of the steps are not material or behavioral; they are spiritual.  It has been our experience, however, that in working the steps – or perhaps better put, in letting the steps work us – all manner of addictions fall by the wayside and every aspect of our character improves, not by our work, but the mysterious action of God’s grace.  Why that happens is beyond our understanding, but our lives, before and after, are proof that it does in fact happen.

 

             Our sex addiction distorts our very nature. It is said that we are made in God’s image.  Consider, then, that in our sexuality our Creator has shared his greatest power with us: through an act of love we create life.   Our gender, moreover, tells us who in large part we are.  Our love-making is designed to be a powerful bond that nourishes a couple emotionally and spiritually, a safe harbor for our most tender feelings.  We sex addicts, however, have gone off the tracks somewhere.  We use our sexuality as a drug to numb painful feelings; we make our sexuality a barrier to intimacy.   The good news is that there is recovery, and through recovery we can have lives filled with joy.  Continued...

North Texas Regional Intergroup of SAA

Recovery by grace, because you are worth it!

Daily Reprieve Foundation Principles and Meeting Format