CASA - Child Abuse Survivors Anonymous - casanon.org

You are home.

1. We admitted we were powerless over our memories - that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people where ever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other survivors, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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Survivors of Incest Anonymous
Sexual abuse of children is a severe violation of expected trust that wounds deeply, but there is hope. SIA is for anyone sexually abused as a child, whether by a family member or outside the family.

Al-Anon / Alateen
A fellowship of people affected by someone else's drinking or sobriety, to share experience, strength and hope.

Adult Children of Alcoholics
Sometimes close or merged with Al-Anon, ACA/ACoA focuses on the lasting effects that growing up in an alcoholic home has on our lives as adults.

Alcoholics Anonymous
When you decide to face your problems, getting sober may be the first indicated step.

Narcotics Anonymous
To escape the pain of our memories, many of us turned to heavier drugs.

Marijuana Anonymous
Marijuana can seem innocuous but can lead to just as many compulsive, addictive behaviors, especially in someone who is in emotional pain.

Overeaters Anonymous
Overeating can be common among child abuse survivors because food was the only available drug to sedate one's pain as a kid. "It's not what you're eating, it's what's eating you."

Debtors Anonymous
Learning to stop being a victim means taking care of ourselves. Often times child abuse survivors self-sabotage by compulsive spending, under-earning or cluttering.

Co-Dependents Anonymous
Sometimes child abuse survivors remain emotionally involved with perpetrators of abuse, or repeat the same emotional cycles with others in unhealthy forms of dependence.

Sex Addicts Anonymous
Child abuse survivors often pursue sex in unhealthy ways.

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
Sex and love addiction can manifest as fear of intimacy and even anorexic avoidance of sex.

Wikipedia's list of 12-step groups
Check this list for more information about specialized 12-step groups.