SAA Scotland - sexual addiction recovery group

Getting started
The 3 circles
Meetings
The twelve steps
Staying sober

Scottish meetings
Personal stories

What is SAA?
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Call us in confidence:
Edinburgh 07900 484184
Glasgow 0141 552 0154
Dundee 07760 274601

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Confidentiality
SAA Scotland is an anonymous group. However, anonymity does not apply if you tell us you are involved in sexual violence or in any sexual activity involving minors. We will report any instances to the police.

The twelve steps of SAA

SAA is a spiritual programme based on the principles and traditions of Alcholics Anonymous. Core to this programme is the Twelve Steps, which are also the core of AA. Thousands, if not millions, are testament to the success of these steps as a path to recovery. So there is hope, trust us.

But they are not easy. We hoped we could find an easier way but we haven't.

We stood at a turning point. You may be standing there now.

1.	We admitted we were powerless over addictive sexual behaviour - that our lives had become unmanageable.	God and the Higher Power The Twelve Steps programme isn't religious but it is spiritual. It asks us to trust in a power greater than ourselves - a "higher power". For some, that will mean God in the traditional sense. For others, it can mean their deep subconscious, or the SAA fellowship, or simply human nature. The definition doesn't really matter to start with. Your sense of your higher power develops as you go further into the programme. At the start, it just helps to realise there is a power greater than yourself - and if you can't manage your addiction, this power can help.
2.	We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3.	We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
4.	We made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves.
5.	We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6.	We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7.	We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8.	We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9.	We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.	We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11.	We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
12.	Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other sex addicts and to practice these principles in our lives.

The Scotland Intergroup of SAA is an autonomous registered fellowship composed of registered groups of recovering sex addicts who follow the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Sex Addicts Anonymous®(SAA). The views expressed on this website are those of Scotland Intergroup and do not necessarily represent those of Sex Addicts Anonymous as a whole. The official website of Sex Addicts Anonymous® (http://www.saa-recovery.org) is overseen by the ISO of SAA, Inc., through its Board of Trustees who are elected by delegates who represent its member groups.