Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous(SLAA) Meetings

General Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) Meeting Information

With 1,000’s of SLAA meetings being held every day, it’s easy for you to find local live meetings and online meetings with people from your local community in attendance. If you are in a treatment center, they will have meetings and may also provide transportation to and from meetings. Many meetings have childcare, to ensure mothers and fathers can attend meetings also.

Meetings for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous and are most often held in public places like churches, community centers, club houses and parks. During the COVID pandemic, many of your local SLAA meetings are still being held on the same day and time as before, but have transitioned to an online platform like Zoom. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a twelve-step program for people recovering from sex addiction and love addiction. While SLAA groups do not affiliate themselves with any particular religion, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous to is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from sex and love addiction.

Types of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) Meetings

As a general rule, there are two standard types of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meetings: open meetings and closed meetings. Open and closed Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meetings often follow various formats including:

• Topic/Discussion SLAA Meetings: Possibly the most common meeting format, the chairperson or leader of the meeting will choose a topic to discuss during the meeting. These meetings may be open or closed.
• Beginner SLAA Meetings: These meetings are led by a veteran member who has been in SLAA for a long period of time and may follow a variety of formats (discussion, topic, book, literature, step, etc.), while focusing on the first three of the 12 Steps of SLAA, or it may be more of a question-and-answer type format.
• Speaker SLAA Meetings: SLAA members who have been sober for a minimum period of time may be chosen beforehand to share their past experiences and how working through “The Program,” as NA’s 12 Steps and Traditions may be referred to, has helped them get to where they are today. These NA meetings are often open to the public, many are recorded, so you can listen to your favorite Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) Speakers any time you want.
• Book, Step, Tradition or Literature SLAA Meetings: A reading from various SLAA Literatureis read, shared on and worked through during the meeting. These SLAA meetings are usually held in a rotation as the SLAA Steps, Traditions, Book or Literature are worked through. Individuals may use workbooks and texts during the SLAA meeting or for homework assignments.

People can attend as many Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meetings as the want and are often encouraged to attend a number of meetings until they find a meeting or set of meetings they like and that have people attending who they can relate to. People are encouraged to find an SLAA home group which they attend regularly. This is usually a meeting you relate to, that has people who are benefiting from the meeting and Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous program. They generally take a commitment at their SLAA home group and hold themselves and others accountable for attending.

How is a Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA)Meeting Conducted?

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous membership is open to people recovering from sex addiction and love addiction.. People do not have to do anything prior to attending an SLAA meeting; they can just show up. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meeting attendance is kept confidential, and individuals are welcome to attend as many different SLAA meetings as they desire. SLAA meetings are typically an hour, but there are also many longer meetings and some shorter in duration.

Typical Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Meeting Format

Individual Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous groups may differ slightly in the way they run Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meetings, but in general, a typical format for an SLAA meeting is as follows:

• Welcome and opening
• Moment of silence and recitation of the Serenity Prayer
• Explanation of 12-Steps, expectation of confidentiality, and reiteration of openness to all and no cost for membership
• Reading from the Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) Literature
• Introductions around the room (first name only, though no one is required to speak)
• Introduction of the speaker or facilitator of the meeting
• Discussion
• Announcements
• Passing of the collection plate, donations are not required although this is how the MA group sustains itself
• Closing, most likely with an SLAA reading and a closing prayer

As Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meetings are meant to be a fellowship, there is also often coffee and refreshments at some point either before, during, or after the SLAA meeting for networking and socializing. SLAA members may choose to volunteer at SLAA meetings as coffee makers, greeters, literature distributor, or they can get more involved volunteering as the SLAA group’s secretary, SLAA treasurer, SLAA chairperson, etc.

Those who have been in Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous for a long period of time may become a “sponsor” for newer SLAA members. A sponsor is a more veteran member of the SLAA group, who has gone through the same difficulty you may be facing, has taken the 12-steps of the SLAA program, knows the literature and will guide you through the 12 steps of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous to help with your success. SLAA sponsors also offer encouragement around the clock, helping to provide in-the-moment support and guidance when needed, and introduce you to other Recovery Resources. SLAA sponsors are often available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, usually by phone, to help sponsees get through potentially difficult situations, temptations, or triggering events. SLAA sponsors may meet or check-in with their sponsees regularly, and lifelong relationships may be formed.

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous groups are safe environments, where individuals are surrounded by others with the same goal to recover from sex addiction and love addiction.. These SLAA meetings can provide individuals with a network of peers who can understand and empathize with each other in ways that others who are not in Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous may not be able to as easily.

The Recovery HQ Team is here to help you!

It’s important to know that you and your loved one are not alone in your fight for sobriety. Whether you choose to go to Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meetings, take up meditation or yoga or use other resources, taking the first step toward regaining your life has begun. Contact the Recovery HQ Team and we will help find the solution which best fits your needs.