iThrive Sexual Integrity Group

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The iThrive Sexual Integrity Group is a working recovery group rather than a discussion-only support meeting like SA/SAA/SLAA/CR. In our model, members are expected to stay actively engaged in recovery all week through step work, accountability, practical exercises, and honest sobriety check-ins.

This group uses a Christ-centered, twelve-step recovery framework and is designed to help men move from secrecy, shame, and compulsive behavior into sobriety, honesty, and connected recovery. Sessions typically include sobriety check-ins, written recovery work, supportive feedback, and practical tools for staying sober between meetings.

Participants are expected to practice the Five Commandments of recovery described in The Final Freedom by Weiss: prayer, recovery connection, recovery reading, meeting participation, and evening prayer. Men are also encouraged to stay accountable to others during the week rather than attempt recovery alone…community makes the difference!

• The Final Freedom.
• Steps to Freedom workbook.
• 101 Freedom Exercises.

These resources provide the structure for twelve-step work, practical recovery assignments, feedback, and relapse-prevention tools. Available for purchase through Heart to Heart Counseling as either digital download or paper back. 

This group may be a fit for men who:

• Struggle with pornography, sexual compulsivity, or other sexually addictive behaviors.
• Want a structured and accountable recovery process.
• Are open to a Christian recovery framework.
• Are willing to do recovery work between sessions, not just attend meetings.

These groups tend to work better for many people because they systematically turn recovery into daily, concrete behaviors inside a very structured, sex‑specific, Christ‑centered program, instead of relying mainly on once‑a‑week open sharing and self‑directed step work. They also work because you have a paid leader who has worked this program with success and who will help you navigate the struggles, pitfalls, and victories along the path to Final Freedom.  

In many traditional SA/SAA/SLAA/CR meetings, the core format is an open share group and reading the steps/literature, but there is often less built‑in requirement that everyone is actively doing structured written work or daily behavioral assignments through the same curriculum. That can make it easier to “attend meetings” without actually changing daily behavior.

Traditional recovery groups strongly encourage working the steps with a sponsor, but the depth of written work, use of a shared workbook, and systematic group feedback is more variable by meeting. Our model hard‑wires it into the group’s life so that “doing the work” is not optional.

In the classic group format, many meetings minimize crosstalk and avoid confronting someone directly during open share. That protects safety but can also let denial go unchallenged especially if sponsors aren’t strong. The iThrive Sexual Integirty Groups deliberately use feedback, boundaries, and self-identified consequences as part of the recovery process.

Other groups use ‘generic’ 12‑step materials plus their own pamphlets, with quality and style varying by intergroup and meeting. Recovery can still be strong, but the level of integration between spirituality, psychological tools, and sex‑specific behavior change is not always as tightly packaged as in the sex addiction specific curriculum that we utilize. 

• Weekly confidential online meetings.
• Guided professional facilitation.
• A structured recovery process.
• Accountability and supportive feedback.
• Homework and practical exercises between meetings.
• A paid professional group experience through iThrive Counseling & Recovery Services.

For pricing, start dates, availability, or a screening conversation, contact iThrive Counseling & Recovery Services.