The
Steps of Sexual Abuse Survivors In
Recovery Anonymous(SISAR)
These
are the steps that made our recovery
possible:
We
admitted we were powerless over the
aftereffects of sexual abuse, and
that our lives had become
unmanageable.
We
came to believe that a power greater
than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.
We
made a decision to turn our will and
our lives over to the care of God,
as we understood God.
We
made a searching a fearless moral
inventory of ourselves.
We
admitted to God, to ourselves, and
to another human being, the exact
nature of our wrongs.
We
were entirely ready to have God
remove all these defects of
character.
We
humbly asked our higher power to
remove our shortcomings.
We
made a list of all persons we had
harmed and became willing to make
amends to them all.
We
made direct amends to others
whenever possible, except when to do
so would injure them or others.
We continued to take personal
inventory, and when we were wrong,
promptly admitted it.
We
sought through prayer and meditation
to improve our conscious contact
with God, as
we understood, praying only for
knowledge of God’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 the message to other sexual
abuse survivors and to practice
these principles in all areas of our
lives.
