New Life Meeting

If you're reading this at an hour you'd rather not admit, and you've sworn off more times than you can count, you're in the right place.

If your first thought is your wife and kids, and your second is everything coming out, you're in the right place. Every one of us lay awake with exactly that. Most of us still have our families. All of us have our lives.

We're people in Springfield who could not stop, who each believed we were the only one this bad, and who found a way out together. Whatever it is, and however far it's gone, someone in our room has done it and said it out loud. Nobody here will ask your last name.

Call or text 417-501-9395. A member answers, not an office.

This page keeps no record of your visit. Nothing you click is stored anywhere. Press Esc at any time to leave.

I need something right now

Tonight is not the night for big decisions. It's the night for one phone call and a few honest minutes.

Get through the next hour

How it starts, how it grows, and what it's really for

The kid who went inside and never came back out. The ladder. The swearing off. The double life. The thing you're actually looking for. Told by people who lived it.

Read our story and see if it's yours

The truth about lust

It is not sex. It is a force that uses sex, and it is eating you. What it is, what it takes, what it makes of you, and the one thing it cannot survive.

Look at it straight

Am I actually an addict?

Twenty plain questions the fellowship has asked itself for forty years. No score is kept and no one sees your answers.

Answer them honestly

What actually happens at a meeting?

Minute by minute, from the parking lot to the closing prayer. You will not be asked to speak.

Walk through your first meeting

Where and when you meet

The room, the days, the times, and a number you can call before you decide anything. Where women in SA meet, too.

Find the meeting

Meetings and phone calls

The Twelve Steps in ordinary words, what a sponsor does, and the tools people here use when the old pull comes back.

See what recovery looks like

I'm a counselor, pastor, or doctor

What we are, what we aren't, and the easiest way to get a client into the room.

For professionals

Every one of us once sat where you are sitting, certain we were the only one this bad. We weren't. Neither are you. Come as you are, and keep coming back.