Blessings

Many of us have found that as we work the steps we are blessed with the benefits of practicing spiritual principles in our daily lives. Our relationships, careers, and family lives are positively changed due to working the program. Listed below are the blessings that many of us have experienced in SLAA:

Excerpts taken from the text of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous and reprinted in the pamphlet ‘Addiction and Recovery.’ Copyright © 1990. All Rights Reserved.

• We came to find intimacy with ourselves, intimacy with God, and then intimacy with others.
• In domestic partnerships we discovered a whole new experience of sexuality as a non-addictive medium.
• In relationships with others we let go of self-serving power and prestige as driving motives.
• Careers that had been exploited mainly for material security at the expense of self-fulfillment no longer appealed to us.
• Our usefulness as channels for healing was a direct result of our experience in sickness, as well as in recovery.
• We discovered that we could continue to affirm our recovery by working with other sex and love addicts.
• We discovered that the source of love, which was of God, had begun to flow from within us.