12 Steps
- We admitted we were powerless over the assault, the effects of the assault, and that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a loving higher power, greater than ourselves, could restore hope, healing and sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a loving higher power, as we understood that to be.
- Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves, the assault, and its effects on our lives. We had no more secrets.
- Admitted to a loving higher power, to ourselves, and to another human being our strengths and weaknesses.
- Were entirely ready to have a loving higher power help us remove all the debilitating consequences of the assault and became willing to treat ourselves with respect, compassion and acceptance.
- Humbly and honestly asked a loving higher power to remove the unhealthy and self-defeating consequences stemming from the sexual abuse.
- Made a list of all the people we may have harmed (of our own free will), including ourselves, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people where ever possible, except when to do so would result in physical, mental, emotional or spiritual harm to ourselves or others.
- Continued to take responsibility for our own recovery and when we found ourselves behaving in patterns still dictated by the assault, promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with ourselves and a loving higher power as we understood that to be, asking only for knowledge of HP’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other survivors and practice these principles in all our endeavors.