SIA Literature is an important tool of recovery. Reading keeps us connected to the program anytime.
- Survivorship: Abstinence from victimization.
- 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. Getting to as many meetings as possible helps transform us from victims into survivors.
- Telephone: Reaching out to others between meetings lifts our isolation. We learn to connect with others; no matter where we are on the continuum between pain and celebration.
- Writing: A way of making conscious contact with ourselves, our histories and our Higher Power.
- Literature: Reading can keep us connected to the program any time of day or night.
- 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.
- Anonymity: Respecting another’s anonymity means preserving their confidentiality. Also, we learn to place principles before personalities and find that we are all equal before God and all deserving of recovery.