You are not alone
Sex Addicts Anonymous Calgary is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other, to not only solve their own problems, but to also help others recover from sex addiction.
SAA Calgary Groups
Calgary has three groups under the common fellowship of Sex Addicts Anonymous. Groups serve varying needs of our members and have slightly different formats. International virtual meetings may found at saa-recovery.org. We hope you find a meeting that is right for you.
SAA SAFE Group
In-person meetings on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 – 8:00 PM and on Saturday mornings from 9:00 – 10:30 AM. Virtual meetings on Mondays and Thursdays from 7:00 – 8:00 PM.
This meeting is open to anyone desiring personal sexual sobriety.
SAA Morning Serenity
Virtual meetings Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with a hybrid in-person/virtual meeting Fridays. All meetings from 6:30 – 7:20 AM.
This meeting is open to men desiring personal sexual sobriety.
Our Recovery
In-person meetings held Fridays from 7:30 – 8:30 PM.
This meeting is open to all who identify as LGBTQ+ and desire personal sexual sobriety.
About Us
We are sex addicts. Our sexual activities, both online and off, brought us immense pain, suffering, and loneliness. For some of us, it nearly destroyed our lives. No matter the consequences of our actions, we couldn’t seem to stop until we finally reached out for help.
Our Meetings
Attending meetings seemed daunting at first, we worried about who we would meet and whether we would be recognized. Summoning courage, we discovered we were not alone and that we could share those parts of which we were most ashamed. To our astonishment, we found love and understanding. We found recovery.
Annual Retreat
The Calgary SAA Co-ed STEP Retreat at a tranquil location just outside the city, is for anyone recovering from pornography, love, relationship, co-dependency or other types of sexual addiction.
Dates: April 4-6, 2025
For more information contact: calgarysaferetreat@gmail.com
Frequently Asked Questions
What is sex addiction? Is it a real thing?
Many of us questioned the addiction label and the disease model. Some clinicians prefer the term sexual compulsion. Yet, we have found the following fittingly describes our problem…
“Sex addiction is a disease affecting the mind, body, and spirit. It is progressive, with the behavior and its consequences usually becoming more severe over time. We experience it as compulsion, which is an urge that is stronger than our will to resist, and as obsession, which is a mental preoccupation with sexual behavior and fantasies.”
– Sex Addicts Anonymous Pg. 3
Why don’t you publish the locations of your meetings?
Given the sensitive nature of sex addiction, anonymity is critical to our individual and collective safety. We use first names and do not share who we meet and what is said at our meetings with anyone…
To keep our meetings safe, we share our virtual and in-person locations with individuals only after confirming their genuine desire to attend, and after explaining a little about our fellowship and the importance of anonymity.
Do I need to believe in God to join SAA?
No, many members are atheists or agnostics and others prefer the term Higher Power. Our fellowship is not associated with any religion or set of beliefs. However, SAA is a spiritual program…
We discovered that we could not overcome our problems using our own willpower, no matter how hard we tried. And we tried mightily. We had to give up trying to go it alone and sought help from something greater than ourselves, something outside ourselves. For some members, that is the group. For others, it is God. Others have a different conception alltogether. This was a spiritual experience, bringing us from isolation and secrecy to fellowship and integrity.
What can I expect at an SAA meeting?
Meetings are run by members. We read literature helpful to our recovery and share openly about our progress and how we are applying the twelve steps in our lives…
Two members will connect with you before your first meeting to welcome you, explain more about SAA, and answer any questions you have.
Reach out by phone or email to learn more about our meetings.
What are the 12 Steps? Are you part of AA?
We are not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous, but we are grateful to AA for pioneering the 12-step model upon which Sex Addicts Anonymous is based.
The twelve steps of SAA are:
- We admitted we were powerless over addictive sexual behaviour — that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood God.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them, or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us, and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to
What does it cost to attend an SAA meeting?
There are no dues and fees to attend SAA meetings. Donations are accepted at the end of our meetings to cover our modest expenses. However, donations are not accepted from newcomers at their first meeting.
Have questions?
Feel free to reach out:
Serenity Prayer
Just for today the expanded serenity prayer can help.
God grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And the Wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace,
Taking, as he did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would like it.
Trusting that He will make all things right,
If I Surrender to his will;
That I may be reasonably Happy in this life,
And supremely happy With him forever in the next. Amen.
