Sex Addicts Anonymous SAA is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other in order to find freedom from addictive sexual behaviours and help others recover from sex addiction.

Being part of SAA means having the choice of setting our own bottom line sexual behaviours. That means choosing what sort of sex we want with ourselves and others and which sort of sex we wish to avoid.

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition oriented fellowship based on the model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous. The only qualification for S.L.A.A. membership is a desire to stop living out a pattern of sex and love addiction.

S.L.A.A. is supported entirely through the contributions of its membership and is free to all who need it.

ACA is a 12 Step program that focuses on emotional sobriety.  

We were all profoundly affected by the dysfunction in our families of origin, whether alcohol was present in the home or not. Consequently, we developed a set of “laundry list” traits that helped us survive that experience. These traits may have been adaptive at the time, but have now come to substantially disrupt our lives.  

We recover by “working our program.” This means attending ACA meetings and working the Twelve Steps. The Steps are not meant to be worked in isolation, which is why we work with more experienced members, a twelve step group, and/or our fellow travelers (others in ACA). ACA has no membership fees.

Meetings are intended to be a safe place. We share our experience, strength, and hope; we offer compassion and understanding.

ACA is not a replacement for addicts working an abstinence program in other Twelve Step fellowships. Adult Children of Alcoholics works best for people that have obtained a level of sobriety in their other program(s).

What is codependence?

Somewhere along the line, we learned to doubt our perception, discount our feelings, and overlook our needs. We looked to others to tell us what to think, feel, and behave. Other people supplied us with information about who we were and should be.

It became more important to be compliant or avoidant rather than to be authentic, and we adopted rigid beliefs about what “should be.” We believed that if we could just “get it right,” things would be okay. When we “got it wrong,” our sense of security and self-worth evaporated.

CoDA Recovery Program

We find by working the Steps and Traditions, we find the strength to be that which God intended, Precious & Free, with healthy, loving relationships. We find the Promises coming true, one day at a time.

Narcotics Anonymous offers recovery to addicts around the world. We focus on the disease of addiction rather than any particular drug. Our message is broad enough to attract addicts from any social class or nationality.

When new members come to meetings, our sole interest is in their desire for freedom from active addiction and how we can be of help.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who come together to solve their drinking problem. It doesn’t cost anything to attend A.A. meetings. There are no age or education requirements to participate. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about their drinking problem.

A.A.’s primary purpose is to help alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

Sexaholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover. The only requirement for SA membership is a desire to stop lusting and become sexually sober according to the SA sobriety definition.

Sexual sobriety means having no form of sex with self (masturbation) or with persons other than the spouse. In SA’s sobriety definition, the term “spouse” refers to one’s partner in a marriage between a man and a woman. For the unmarried sexaholic, sexual sobriety means freedom from sex of any kind - complete abstinence.

The S-Anon International Family Groups are a worldwide fellowship of the relatives and friends of sexually addicted people.

The S-Anon program helps you connect with others who have felt the painful effects of someone else's sex addiction and have found a way forward.

While teenagers may attend S-Anon meetings, they are encouraged to join the S-Ateen Fellowship which welcomes young people, ages 12 to 19, who have been affected by the sexual behavior of someone close to them.