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BRENDA MYERS-POWELL - DREAMCATCHERS

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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stopsextrafficktalk/2013/02/26/brenda-myers-powell-talks-about-sex-workers-anonymous-aka-prostitutes-anonymous Before "Dreamcatchers", Brenda was just another resident at Genesis House in Chicago.  Genesis House had been founded by a nun named Edwina Gately.  Prostitutes Anonymous was our program's name in 1988 when we got a call from Edwina for help.  She said none of the women in the program were relating to her being she was an older white female who had never been a prostitute herself.  I had no way of affording a trip to Chicago and she was barely getting by, but many of the talk shows were filmed in Chicago back in the late 1980's.  Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, Sally Jesse Raphael, and Oprah were all filmed out of studios there.  I told Edwina I had an idea which worked - I'd get booked on a talk show which would pay for my round-trip and hotel to get there.   I booked the first show and came bearing copies of our &quo

SEX WORKERS ANONYMOUS RECOVERY GUIDE WEBSITE

I put up a separate website for our 1st edition at www.leavingprostitution.com

RECOVERY GUIDE FOR PROSTITUTES ANONYMOUS AKA SEX WORKERS ANONYMOUS

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THE CORE OF SWA

People have a hard time understanding why we in Sex Workers Anonymous do not have the sex industry, prostitution, or drugs, as our 1st step.  The reason is because it's not the problem for us.  When Bill Wilson began to understand the "ism" of alcohol"ism" the program of AA banned him from speaking at meetings, conventions, and even writing for the Grapevine.  They wanted the focus on alcohol - not him. When Bill Wilson and Jimmy Kinnon wrote the pamphlet "problems other than alcohol" they were told "it's an outside issue".   Jimmy was driven to a spiritual bottom at 15 years sober where he almost murdered his family, and himself, just to stop the pain because merely being clean from drugs was not allowing him to be "happy, joyous and free".  He then had a spiritual awakening also - different than Bill's but an awakening the same. With Jimmy, the men who wanted to hijack the literature to open treatment centers locked hi