This week we will be talking with Wendi F, another lustaholic/sexaholic. In this conversation we explore her life experience that led her to an eventual awakening. We discuss what it means to find the core of an addiction and how it differs from many of the ancillary or appendages to an addiction. We discuss a new life with a Higher Power and the absolute power of having a sponsor to help you walk through the steps of recovery. This is another powerful conversation that will help break the stigma of addiction if you allow it to.
If this is your first episode of this series (or of this podcast as a whole), I highly recommend that you go back and listen to all of the previous episodes of this Journey In Recovery series at some point. There are 12 Steps and they are in a prescribed order for a reason. So, whether you do that now, or after you listen to this episode, I heartily invite you to listen to the others and then continuing with steps 8 through 12 over the next several weeks. Step 9 reads, “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.”
In this and other conversations, you may be introduced to concepts that you have never before considered, or may even seem contradictory to what you have considered truth for perhaps your whole life, but these concepts are shared as honestly and openly as possible, using real experiences that cannot be denied as being true to these people sharing them.
While you listen, take mental or physical notes of ideas of self-improvement that pop into your head. Then, at the end of this podcast, review those notes and make a plan about how you can implement them.
So there you have it. Step 9 . “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.”
At the end of this conversation, Wendi F discussed the 20 questions to consider asking ourselves. There are also questions that you can find and ask yourself about virtually any addiction out there. In fact, just substituting your own suspected issue with the words sex or lust comes up here will give you a good idea. I will link to several questions to ask oneself if one is an addict or not below.
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Resources:
20 questions from SA (Sexaholics Anonymous): https://www.sa.org/test/
12 questions from AA (Alcoholics Anonymous): https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/is-aa-for-you-twelve-questions-only-you-can-answer
Questions for NA (Narcotics Anonymous): https://www.na.org/admin/include/spaw2/uploads/pdf/litfiles/us_english/IP/EN3107.pdf
Sexaholics Anonymous: https://www.sa.org/
S-Anon (for the loved ones of sex addicts): https://www.sanon.org/
Sexaholics Anonymous Lifeline: https://sal12step.org/
Sex Addicts Anonymous: https://saa-recovery.org/
Resources for many different fellowships:
http://www.reneweveryday.com/resources/the-lists/
http://www.reneweveryday.com/resources/family-and-friends/