Each SCA Meeting can have a vote?

At the 2023 SCA ISO Conference the following updates to the By-laws were made:

Article I. Delegates, Section 2. Voting Rights and Proxies

As indicated in Section 1. above, each Intergroup delegation has as many votes as the number of meetings
they represent. An individual meeting can choose to withdraw their vote from the local intergroup and send
their elected or selected representative instead. All delegates may participate in the ISO conference in
person, or by electronic means, including internet conferencing software, telephone, or other digital
methods that ISO may employ in the future. Intergroups or meetings that do not participate in the
proceedings using any of these methods may select a proxy to represent them and cast their votes. This
proxy may be another participating Intergroup, meeting, officer, or another member of SCA. A proxy
designation must be made known to the ISO Chair at least one (1) week before the scheduled conference.
Groups not participating in the ISO conference discussions will be counted as absent in any vote unless
their proxy votes on their behalf

“I want my RTV (Recovery Television).”

SCA New York is pleased to announce its Spring Show  “I want my RTV (Recovery Television).”
 
Performances will be held on Saturday, May 2nd, at 7pm and Sunday, May 3rd, at 3pm at the TADA! theater, 15 West 28th Street, near Madison Square Park. 
 
Tickets are $35 plus online transaction fee.​
 
To buy tickets, click this link:

Hitting Bottom?

There’s a common belief in addiction recovery that keeps people stuck longer than they need to be: the idea that you have to hit “rock bottom” before things can change. It sounds convincing—but it’s not true.

Waiting for things to fall apart often leads to more loss, more disconnection, and more pain. It can quietly reinforce the idea that help is only justified after irreparable damage is done. In reality, recovery doesn’t begin at rock bottom. It begins with awareness.

That moment might look like:

  • Realizing you can’t stop, even when you’ve tried
  • Noticing patterns you’ve seen before starting to repeat
  • Experiencing a rupture in your relationship
  • Or simply recognizing something doesn’t feel right anymore

It doesn’t have to be catastrophic to matter. You don’t need to lose your family, your career, or your sense of self to take this seriously. In many cases, choosing to seek support early reflects clarity, insight, and a willingness to do something different.

Awareness of Addiction can raise your “Bottom” and help you to change direction before things escalate.

“Porn-I can stop whenever I want”

Did your use of porn start with the belief: “It’s no big deal, everyone does it. I can stop whenever I want.” But over time you noticed the patterns deepening and attempts to reduce usage fall by the wayside. Guilt and shame may prevent you from even addressing the issue.

Porn usage is usually done in private and is available around the clock. You my start to find yourself planning your day around it. Staying up later than you want to. Having one slip after another. None of this means you are weak. It means you are trying to manage this burden on your own.  At SCA you can find that you are not alone and it’s about not having to navigate everything by yourself. It’s a place where you can take your time and understand what is driving the behavior, but more important it’s a place where you can start building healthier patterns.

Remembering Bill E (SCA LA, San Diego & Washington DC)

Bill died on November 15th of pancreatic cancer.  A Celebration of Life will be held for him on Saturday, January 17th 2026 at 11AM. It will take place at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, 2728 Sixth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101. There will be a reception to follow in the Great Hall. 

If you plan to attend, please send an email to: Bill.Eadie.COL@gmail.com to give them an idea of the number of people who might participate.
Bill was an ISO rep for Los Angeles and San Diego SCA in the early days of ISO. He was very active in our literature development committees. More recently, he worked on the SCA History and Unity Committee. His background in history and academics was a great help to our work.  Bill also served for several years as the ISO Webmaster, helping to produce our current website. Thirty two years ago Bill moved to Washington DC and helped start SCA there and those original meetings are still ongoing today.
Bill E. was a scholar and a gentleman in my experience, and his long and dedicated service to SCA will have touched the lives of many members who are likely completely unaware of it, as well as those who are.

Sexual Sobriety

Various definitions

Many people who come to this website are struggling with some aspect of sexual behavior that could be called addictive, compulsive, obsessive, dependent, or otherwise out-of-control (all various ways of saying basically the same thing, which is that a person is powerless over some aspect of his or her sexual behavior and that his or her life has become unmanageable).

Sexual Sobriety Definitions Vary

The definition of what constitutes sexual “sobriety” is not the same among the five different fellowships.  Knowing these differences can be helpful in deciding which fellowship best suits the individual needs of each person seeking sexual recovery. There are at least five different 12-Step fellowships that address a person’s sexual behavior.  They are all based on the original 12-step fellowship, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).  From the time of its founding in the 1930’s. A.A. has been so successful in helping people recover from alcohol dependence that its format has been adapted to many other behaviors.  Several different fellowships for achieving sexual sobriety originated in different parts of the country within a few years of each other.

SCA states that: “Members are encouraged to develop their own sexual recovery plan, and to define sexual sobriety for themselves. We are not here to repress our God-given sexuality, but to learn how to express it in ways that will not make unreasonable demands on our time and energy, place us in legal jeopardy — or endanger our mental, physical or spiritual health.”

Although the SCA fellowship originally sought to address issues of sexual compulsion among gay and bisexual men, it has always been open to all sexual genders and orientations, and there is an increasing number of women and heterosexual men participating.

(posted from the SCA Atlanta’s website: https://atlantasexaddicts.com/gasca)

 

Time Change

Please note there is a time change and Daylight Saving Time ends in most of Europe and certain other areas this Sunday, October 26, 2025. Clocks in the affected areas go back one hour. The telephone meetings will still be at 4:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. New York Time as usual, but the time in other places may be different than usual. The meetings will be one hour earlier in much of Europe that week for instance, depending on your location:

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/europe-dst-end-2025.html

Daylight Saving Time ends and the clocks go back one hour in most of North America the following weekend, and the meetings will be back in the usual alignment with most other time zones on Sunday, November 2, 2025:

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/usa-end-dst-2025.html

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/canada-end-dst-2025.html

SCA Toronto Celebrates 25 Years

October 1, 2025 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of SCA meetings in Toronto.

The Toronto group has decided to celebrate this occasion by going out for dinner and having a cake for dessert after their regular 6:30 p.m. meeting on Friday, November 7, 2025.

Anyone who has attended an SCA meeting in Toronto in the past is welcome to join this celebration. Please RSVP by October 31st at  scatoronto@hotmail.com  if you plan to attend. We hope to see as many members as possible there!

To mark this occasion, the group will also be publishing an updated summary history of SCA’s presence in Toronto, expanding on the original version that was submitted to ISO and published on the SCAnner in October, 2015.

Happy Anniversary Toronto!