TOOLS

In SCAA, we have a spiritual solution to sugar and carb addiction that offers a proven and time-tested approach to the program. We use the 12-Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous which is based on sponsorship, participation, and fellowship through online meetings. This is an approach that helps you heal mentally, physically and spiritually.
The tools of SCAA recovery are:

Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous The text in the AA Big Book is what fuels our recovery and helps us to find the solution. You can read the book online here, or can purchase a copy through AA World Service by clicking here.

AA's 12 Steps

• Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over sugar and carbohydrates — that our lives had become unmanageable.
• Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
• Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
• Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
• Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
• Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
• Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
• Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
• Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
• Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
• Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
• Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to sugar and carb addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Sponsorship A sponsor is a sugar and carb addict who guides you through the program and the 12 Steps. If you'd like to get an SCAA sponsor, please send a request through the form on the Contact Us page.

Prayer and meditation Just like talking to a trusted friend, we use prayer and mediation to develop a close and constant relationship with our Higher Power.

Service Having experienced a spiritual awakening as a result of working the 12 Steps, we offer our service to help carry our message to those who still suffer, passing on to others the gift that was freely given to us.

Fellowship We reach out frequently to others in our fellowship via chat, email, text, or phone.