To help you make this decision, it is suggested that you complete the SLAA's 40 Questions for Self-Diagnosis. You may be experiencing one or all of these characteristics, but only you can decide for sure if S.L.A.A. Do you confuse love with neediness, physical and sexual attraction, pity and/or the need to rescue or be rescued?.
Do you fearing abandonment and loneliness? Do you stay in and return to painful, destructive relationships?.Do you few healthy boundaries, becoming sexually involved with and/or emotionally attached to people without knowing them?.Are your sexual behaviours causing you problems? The only requirement for membership of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a desire to stop addictive sexual behavior. SLAA uses uses the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous to recover from these compulsions. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, or S.L.A.A., is a program for anyone who suffers from an addictive compulsion to engage in or avoid sex, love, or emotional attachment. members.Īnonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.Twelve Steps To Recovery – free, simple, proven We need guard with special care the anonymity of all fellow M.A. Our public relations policy is based upon attraction rather than promotion we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, t.v., film, and other public media. name ought never be drawn into public controversy. Marijuana Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues hence the M.A. M.A., as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve. Marijuana Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.Įvery M.A. groups ought never endorse, finance, or lend the M.A. as a whole.Įach group has but one primary purpose, to carry its message to the marijuana addict who still suffers. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using marijuana.Įach group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or M.A. Our leaders are but trusted servants they do not govern. unity.įor our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority, a loving God whose expression may come through in our group conscience. Our common welfare should come first personal recovery depends upon M.A.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to marijuana addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs. 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.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.Ĭontinued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.Īdmitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood God. We admitted we were powerless over marijuana, that our lives had become unmanageable.Ĭame to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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