That Help Us Get Better Meetings are where we share our experience, strength and hope with each other to better understand our common problem and work together towards the solution. The Telephone is our meeting between meetings. By making contact with others, we begin to break out of the isolation that is so strongly a part of the disease. Sponsorship is two people with the same problem helping each other to work the program. It can provide a framework for a sexual recovery plan and for doing the Twelve Steps, and can bring emotional support at difficult times.
Literature is our portable program.
We also make use of AA's and OA's and other Twelve Step programs' conference-approved literature, as well as other appropriate materials. The Twelve Steps are a suggested program of recovery, based on the Twelve Steps of A.A. Prayer and Meditation are means of establishing conscious contact with a Power greater than ourselves. A Sexual Recovery Plan is a predetermined way of expressing our sexuality consistent with our values, so that even when confused, we will have a written guideline to help us. We get support in SCA by abstaining from people, places or things that we consider harmful. Dating is a way of changing the instant gratification habit and getting to know more about ourselves and another person, before committing to any sexual decisions.