The 8 Tools of Recovery

SIA Literature, available on the SIA World Service website, is an important tool of recovery. Reading can keep us connected to the program anytime.
Sponsorship: We cannot work this program alone. We get a sponsor to help us work the steps; we sponsor others to keep us honest and recovering. Some of us choose to co-sponsor each other.
Meetings: The place where we share our experience, strength and hope and hear how the program works. Attending meetings help transform us from victims into survivors.
Telephone: Reaching out to others lifts our isolation. We learn to connect with others, no matter where we are on the continuum between pain and celebration.
Writing (keep a journal): A way of making conscious contact with ourselves, our histories and our Higher Power.
Anonymity: Respecting another’s anonymity means preserving their confidentiality. We learn to place principles before personalities and that we are all equal before God and all deserving of recovery.
Service: We can’t keep it unless we give it away. We are all responsible for our own recovery, including the upkeep of SIA. There are many ways to serve.

While SIANewYork adheres to Tradition 6 prohibiting or endorsing outside agencies, Tradition 5 prompts us to carry our message of hope and healing to the incest survivor who still suffers. In that spirit, we list the following resources:

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