New POSA Support Group Materials

IT HAS BEEN SO VERY INSPIRING TO WORK WITH THESE POSAS

There have been at least five new POSA Meetings formed in this past year alone! It has been so very inspiring to work with these POSAs who took the initiative to begin hosting meetings in their local areas. Our communications in working together have energized and empowered all of us!

We know how treacherous life can feel in the wake of discovering that your life partner has betrayed you. One of the more extraordinary gifts hidden within this relational devastation is the power of POSAs to find and to support one another. To begin our healing process, we can learn to stop trying to bond back to the person who carelessly ruptured our bonds (at least until they've earned our trust back sufficiently), and to find new, supportive people to trust and to create healing community with.

This is the spirit that POSA Support Meetings were created out of. We realized that we needed a safe space to process our grief together and to find others who understood; who didn't judge us or try to talk us out of our pain; kindreds to lean on; and for us to then provide leaning shoulders for others during those particularly rough days that we all feel.

After evaluating our own meetings and receiving feedback from other groups about what was working well and of the recurring challenges that present frequently at meetings elsewhere, Team Posarc had some roundtable discussions to explore options to better serve POSA Meetings everywhere. The result of that brainstorming has resulted in the formation of our revised POSA Meeting Guidelines. We're excited to share them with you and these can be downloaded in pdf format directly from our new information page that features helpful strategies inHow to Start a POSA Group.

We hope that you'll find that this new meeting format flows easier, and we've also added some new heart-centered guidelines that enable even more safety for the sharing portion of the meetings. Attached to the new POSA Meeting Guidelines manual is also an updated list of possible themes and topics for shares and discussion.

We know that routine use of pornography and the many other forms of sexual betrayal are becoming ever more common and often even socially encouraged. Our Support Groups are a way to help us gain and hold traction in our sometimes-newly-budding awareness that these are not acceptable in our lives or tolerable in our relationships. We are freeing ourselves with the help of our Groups as we find the strength and power to live into our true values.

If you feel in need of a group of kindreds to help you stand firm in your convictions...if you are reeling from the devastating blows of sex addiction to your relationship...and if you feel that local support to supplement your therapy or Recovery Coaching would be helpful, consider starting a POSA Meeting in your area. It puts an end to the silence that so many of us have suffered in for too long.

Be sure to check our Meeting List to see if there is already support available in your own area.

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