“Around age thirty-two, one of the many bishops who had tried to help me overcome this addiction told me about a 12 Step program for sexual addiction. I didn’t even know what a 12 Step program was, but my bishop told me that another member of my congregation had found success there. At this point, I was willing to try anything. I went to my first 12 Step meeting and was very nervous. It turned out that the people there were just like me and had been in predicaments similar to mine but were now changing for the better. I identified with what they were saying, and I got hope in that first meeting that this might actually work. I was no longer alone. I kept going back to the 12 Step meetings, started “working the steps,” and began to see real changes in my behavior and in my level of peace and joy. It was a rocky road in the beginning for a while, but with a lot of meetings and working the steps, I became free from these addictions and then started to work on overcoming the effects that all of those years of addiction had on me.” ( Selected from a recovery story, He Restoreth My Soul Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD)