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S.L.A.A. Conference Approved materials

The literature below is not S.L.A.A. Conference approved, but you may find that some of the material will enhance your recovery nonetheless. Please use at your discretion.

Only S.L.A.A. literature, approved by the Delegates at an Annual Business Meeting (or equivalent) by a properly constituted Conference that has passed through the Appendix I process, and has been approved by the FWS Board of Trustees qualifies as Conference-approved Literature.

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Non-Conference Approved Materials

(recommended by S.L.A.A. program members)

  • the Journal - a periodical published by the Conference Journal Committee, a service body within Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
    Download the free digital Recovery Outreach Edition
    Subscribe to receive issues in print
    Purchase and download MP3 audio readings of select issues
    Purchase print copies of “focus booklets” - compilations of shares on various recovery topics

  • A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps: The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery by Patrick Carnes

  • Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book

  • Escape from Intimacy: Untangling the Love Addictions: Sex, Romance, Relationships

  • Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend

  • Facing Love Addiction by Pia Mellody

  • Out of the Shadows: Understanding Love Addiction by Patrick Carnes

  • Is it love or addiction? by Brenda Schaeffer

  • Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood

  • Women, Sex and Addiction by Charolette Kasl

  • Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Hatred by Patrick Carnes

  • In the Shadows of the Net: Breaking Free of Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior by Delmonico, Griffin and Carnes