12 Promises Of SIA

1. We will finally know freedom, happiness and serenity.
2. We will remember the past at last and walk freely away from it with our child intact.
3. We will comprehend the word “safety.”
4. We will know sleep without fear.
5. No matter how terrible the incest, nor how devastating its effects, we will recover and become whole again.
6. That feeling of hopelessness and self-condemnation will disappear.
7. We will lose our sense of toxic shame and gain self-respect.
8. Revulsion will slip away.
9. Our perpetrators will no longer have any power over us.
10. Fear of love and sexuality will leave us.
11. We will intuitively know how to handle intimacy.
12. We will suddenly realize that we are alive, lovely, whole, sane and safe.

12 Promises of SIA, version 2 (Adapted from AA’s 12 Promises)

1. We will attain and maintain serenity.
2. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
3. We will learn how to be gentle with ourselves regarding the past and remain open to it.
4. We will comprehend the word “serenity” and we will know peace.
5. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experiences can benefit others.
6. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
7. We will learn how to balance our own needs with the needs of others.
8. Self-knowledge will blossom.
9. Our whole attitude and outlook on life will change.
10. Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us.
11. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
12. We will suddenly realize that Loving Higher Power is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.