I’ll Stand By The Door – Roy K. 2008
[Originally published in Essay February 2019] Recorded Audio Greeting to the Newark, New Jersey “Chorus of Recovery” 2008 International Convention My name is Roy and I’m a Sexaholic. I’m standing here...
View ArticleForgiveness Is Worth The Effort
[Originally published in Essay May 2019] Forgiveness Is Worth The Effort Three thoughts on forgiveness #1: Why Forgive? The first, and most important, concerns why I forgive people. In a nutshell: I...
View ArticleI Don’t Need To Know – Art B.
[Originally published in Essay 2016 #3] I suffer from a sort of hypervigilance. Something in me wants to identify and define every object, every person, every angle and surface in my physical...
View ArticleOpen My Mind To What This Day Offers — Compartir Sobre La Mente Abierta
[Originally published in Essay May 2019] The eternal discontent with my life is part of my illness. I cannot find myself. My life I do not like. I need something more. That enormous expectations that I...
View ArticleDealing With Fear
[Originally published in Essay in February, 2019] G-d handles what we cannot I would like to share how the program has given me the gift of lowering the volume of my fears. I cannot say that they are...
View ArticleAt Last! An End To Chronic Relapsing
[Originally published in Essay May 2019] It works if we work it The Foreword to the Second Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous says that “Of those who came to A.A. and really tried, 50% got sober at once...
View ArticleFarsi language selection from Essay “Service Work As A Gift” December 2018
Translation of Essay December 2018 “Service Work As A Gift” into Farsi from the Iran SA Fellowship. https://www.sa.org/w/wp-content/uploads/2019.2-Farsi-Essay-2018-12-1.pdf
View ArticleEssay August 2019 “S.A. At 40 Years” in Farsi
A partial translation into Farsi (Persian) language. ESSAY Farsi – August 2019
View ArticlePromoting Businesses in SA (Trad. 6)
(from Essay August 2019) I love making candy. As with any interest of mine, it grew into a real passion. People encouraged me to create a candy business, which I tried…and failed. (I’m not a very...
View ArticleSingle and Serene
(from Essay August 2019) Single is a unique platform I viewed men as toys or saviours but never as human beings. They filled my time until I found THE ONE who became my god. The fear of not being loved...
View ArticleLa Cárcel De Mi Egocentrismo — The Jail Of My Egocentrism
(from Essay October 2019) Hola compañeros. Soy Rafael de Colombia. sobrio desde el 1 de junio de 2016 y solo por hoy. Estoy en el paso 12 con mi padrino. Con frecuencia me siento impotente ante lo que...
View ArticlePracticing The Principles — Twelve Steps Changed Her
(from Essay October 2019) Hi, I’m Wendi, sexaholic in Colorado with progressive victory over lust since November 7, 2011. Recently I attended a regional retreat with the theme “Practicing The...
View ArticleBack to Basics — Harvey A.
Back to the Basics (Essay December 2018) It seems like only yesterday that my old friend and sponsor Jesse L., shared with me a wonderful story. He said that there once was a world-renowned football...
View ArticleWhat Will You Do Differently This Time?
(from Essay December 2019) I have been in and out of SA for 13 years and my newest sobriety date in April 7, 2019. Why? I never put recovery first, until now. In the past 13 years there have been...
View ArticleOpposition Or Compassion — Step 7
(from Essay December 2019) I am ready in Step 7 to ask God to remove another shortcoming and in Step 9 make amends to someone I hurt. I was ready with resentment and anger when my spouse opposed me or...
View ArticleIsolation … L’isolement… In Subtle Forms
(from Essay February 2020) Isolation has always been a danger for me as a sexaholic. Before coming to SA, I lived my life in a bubble, withdrawn from others, cut off from any type of Higher Power, out...
View ArticleCheck List Sobriety
(from Essay February 2020) I had a sponsee who would call me every day with a check in. I laid out a daily program of action like the one that was given to me. Every few days he would call to report he...
View ArticleSober Dating
[from Essay February 2020 “Sober Dating”] Sober Dating It is not for everyone For years I thought I took sober dating very seriously. My partner and I had been sexual together in 1991 and all hell...
View ArticleMy Experience With Sober Dating
[From Essay February 2020 “Sober Dating”] My Experience With Sober Dating Ten years of patience pays off Recently married for the fourth time, the marriage already unstable due to my disease, I arrived...
View ArticleFirst Light
[from Essay May 2020] The moment we knew the jig was up First Light Whenever I get into negative or obsessive thinking, I try to remember the great promise of recovery from sex and lust addiction as I...
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