SAA Scotland - sexual addiction recovery group

Getting started
The 3 circles
Meetings
The twelve steps
Staying sober

Scottish meetings
Personal stories

What is SAA?
Other resources

Call us in confidence:
Aberdeen 07760 274601
Dundee 07760 274601
Edinburgh 07900 484184
Glasgow 0141 552 0154

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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.

Getting started - tackling sex addiction

Admitting our addiction

Once we can admit to ourselves that we are addicts, we can start to accept it. Accepting it doesn't mean we just put up with it. The opposite is true - it brings us hope by acknowledging the truth.

Rest assured, many of us have spent a long time pretending we are not addicts but progress only seems to come when we admit what we are.

What is sobriety?

Sobriety is easy to define for alcoholics - simply not drinking ever again. For sex addicts, it is more difficult. We are looking for a "healthy sexuality", free from addictive sexual behaviours.

What is healthy for one isn't necessarily healthy for someone else. So sexual sobriety means not engaging in addictive sexual behaviours which are detructive to ourselves or others. We abstain from specific sexual behaviours which cause our lives to become unmanageable.

It is quite common for our definition of sobriety to change. Many of us use a tool called the "3 circles" to help us define this.

How to get started

1.	Establish limits Set boundaries to your sexual behaviour using the three circles tool
2.	Idenfity and stay away from environments and people that have been part of your acting out behaviour. For example, - If internet porngraphy is a problem, install a blocker - Throw away pornagraphic books, videos, DVDs, magazines etc - Request call-barring on your telephone if sex lines are a problem for you - Avoid locations where you would normally act out e.g. red light districts, areas with strip bars, sex shops, saunas etc - Avoid meeting people with whom you would normally act out e.g. ex-partners and so on
3.	Go to meetings The SAA fellowship exists because we have found it helps to share our problem with others and many of us gain strength from this
4.	Practice the twelve steps - the SAA recovery programme
5.	Get a sponsor A sponsor helps us understand and apply the twelve steps and helps the addict feel less isolated and alone

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.