Daily Reprieve Group Preamble (cont)

 

At this time, let us read the steps, the traditions and the promises. 

         Thank you.  Let us identify ourselves, first names only.  Newcomers need not admit to a sexual addiction.  In this group we do not, in introducing ourselves, give our sobriety date if we have one.

 

Remember that we avoid crosstalk at our meetings.  Crosstalk is advice giving, criticizing, interrupting, singling out, lecturing or responding directly to another member.  We also avoid double-dipping – that is, speaking twice in a meeting.  Here we share our experience, strength and hope and do not dwell on the particulars of our disease.  We should not mistake our meetings for group therapy.  We do not have a psychological disorder; we have a spiritual disorder. And if one believes that he is suffering from a psychological disorder, we have nothing to offer him. We do not profess any psychological expertise; indeed, our Eighth Tradition enjoins us to “remain forever nonprofessional.” We are not psychologists. We are sex addicts.

 

The AA Big Book tells us that we will be absolutely unable to stop our addiction on the basis of self-knowledge and, further, that as we work this program, we will obtain no more than a daily reprieve, a respite entirely contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.  The focus of this group is that daily reprieve and the maintenance of that spiritual condition.  We may have had spiritual beliefs before we came to these rooms; now we will have spiritual experiences.  Indeed, as you sit in these rooms you may come to hear the voice of the God of your understanding in the sharing of your fellow addicts.

 

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is the indispensable guide to our recovery; we base our program on that volume.  Continued..

North Texas Regional Intergroup of SAA

Recovery by grace, because you are worth it!

Daily Reprieve Foundation Principles and Meeting Format (cont)