12 Steps of SLAA The Twelve Steps:
A pathway to sexual and emotional sobriety

Enough of us have worked through these Twelve Steps that a common experience of recovery from sex and love addiction has emerged.

1. We admitted we were powerless over sex and love addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with a Power greater than ourselves, 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 sex and love addicts, and to practice these principles in all areas of our lives.

©1985 SLAA
*Reprinted for adaptation by permission of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) World Services, Inc.

Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who solve
their common problem and help others to recover.
The Greater Delaware Valley Intergroup (GDVI) of
The Augustine Fellowship of Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA)
SLAA-GDVI: Serving Philadelphia/Southeastern/Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and the State of Delaware