Guiding Principles
SLAA’s Guiding Principles*
The principles which had been worked out on the hard anvil of A.A. experience were to be our guiding principles. These principles had safeguarded the A.A. fellowship during a time when alcoholism was thoroughly stigmatized in society's view. We believed that theses same traditions would serve us equally well if we observed them. We knew that our “condition” of sex and love addiction was no less stigmatized, in contemporary society, than alcoholism had been in the 1930’s and 40’s. We needed to be protected both from adverse attention from the outside, and from that destructive inner demon: self-serving personal willfulness.
Our fellowship could survive only if we successfully negotiated both the external and internal threats. If we failed to recognize and meet these challenges, and our Fellowship collapsed, we knew that we, as individuals would probably not survive.
Each of A.A.’s Twelve Traditions were discussed, sometimes heatedly, and modified wherever necessary to fit the needs of our own Fellowship. Click here for the Twelve Traditions of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous.
*Excerpted from © 1993 SLAA Basic Text, page 122
SLAA’s Guiding Principles*
The principles which had been worked out on the hard anvil of A.A. experience were to be our guiding principles. These principles had safeguarded the A.A. fellowship during a time when alcoholism was thoroughly stigmatized in society's view. We believed that theses same traditions would serve us equally well if we observed them. We knew that our “condition” of sex and love addiction was no less stigmatized, in contemporary society, than alcoholism had been in the 1930’s and 40’s. We needed to be protected both from adverse attention from the outside, and from that destructive inner demon: self-serving personal willfulness.
Our fellowship could survive only if we successfully negotiated both the external and internal threats. If we failed to recognize and meet these challenges, and our Fellowship collapsed, we knew that we, as individuals would probably not survive.
Each of A.A.’s Twelve Traditions were discussed, sometimes heatedly, and modified wherever necessary to fit the needs of our own Fellowship. Click here for the Twelve Traditions of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous.
*Excerpted from © 1993 SLAA Basic Text, page 122
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
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
