Welcome beautiful human to a Trauma Informed Recovery Space for survivors of trauma including those with PTSD, CPTSD, ACEs, therapists, counselors, other trauma adjacent professionals are welcome to come and learn as well as be of service to those of us who are struggling. Any who are looking to make their way through the 12 steps through a Trauma Informed lens, or assist those who are trying to do so are welcome.

Our Zoom meetings are held every Sunday at 3pm EST/12PM PT/8PM UCT for 1 hour.  In order to access the zoom link please register to join our WhatsApp group below. 

Ground Rules for our Meetings:

1. Kindly respect and protect the anonymity of all group members, including those in service roles.

2. Please turn off your camera if you are smoking, vaping, eating, or engaging in other behaviors that may be triggering or a distraction from the meeting.

3. Please limit your comments to 3 to 4 minutes so that all people who want to can share.

4. This meeting is not group therapy and is not meant to be a replacement for group therapy or professional treatment.  It is a place where we can share our experience, strength, and hope about what works in recovery. We keep our shares focused on topics discussed in the reading, or on your recovery journey.  We ask that you refrain from going into specific details of your traumatic experiences out of respect to those in the group who may be particularly sensitive to being triggered at this point in their journey.  The processing or reprocessing of trauma is recommended to be done on an individual basis and with a certified professional. If you believe you are experiencing a mental health crisis, we ask that you please send the chairperson a private message and we will do our best to suggest a course of action outside of the meeting. 

5. At the conclusion of your share, please let us know if you would like feedback, or if you do not need feedback.  And to other group members - please respect the sharer’s statement. 

6. When there are ten minutes left in the meeting, the chairperson will wrap up the open sharing and will lead us in a breathing, grounding, or other coping skill exercise so that we can leave our meeting in the solution.

Trauma Informed 12 Steps (CHOICES):

1. Admitted we were addicted to alcohol and/or drugs- that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could help us to become empowered.

3. Made a decision to let go of our attempts to control and asked: What would my Higher Power want for me today?

4. Made a list of our behaviors and patterns that had caused us and others harm, at a pace that was emotionally safe for us.

5. Admitted to our Higher Power, to ourselves and to another human being our list of behaviors and patterns that had caused us and others harm, at a pace that was emotionally safe for us.

6. Became ready to allow our Higher Power to guide us in releasing behaviors that no longer serve us.

7. Humbly asked our Higher Power to help us accept our human imperfections.

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

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

10. Continued to take personal inventory and responsibility for our mistakes, and promptly admitted them.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the Higher Power of our understanding, asking ourselves: What would my Higher Power want for me today? And the empowerment to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to share our stories to support others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. 

The Twelve Traditions of Trauma-Informed Recovery

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon unity of purpose.

2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority, a loving Higher Power whose expression may come through in our group conscience. Our leaders are but Trusted Servants; they do not govern.

3. The only requirement for membership is a desire to be in a healing recovery space.

4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or Trauma-Informed Recovery as a whole.

5. Each group has but one primary purpose, to carry its message to the recovering person who still suffers.

6. Trauma-Informed Recovery groups ought never endorse, finance, or lend the TIR name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

7. Every TIR group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

8. Trauma-Informed Recovery should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ Special Workers.

9. TIR, as such, ought never be organized, but we may create Service Boards or Committees directly responsible to those they serve.

10. Trauma-Informed Recovery has no opinion on outside issues; hence the TIR name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

11. Our public relations policy is based upon attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, film, and other public media. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all fellow TIR members.

12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

Disclaimer: We have drawn inspiration from Choices, Trauma and the 12 Steps by Jamie Marich & Stephen Dansiger, and AA 12 step groups although we are not affliated with one group or another we are our own entity and our purpose is to create a healing a Trauma Informed Safe Enough Space for survivors of trauma including those with PTSD, CPTSD, ACEs, therapists, counselors, other trauma adjacent professionals.  Anybody who is looking to make their way through the 12 steps through a Trauma Informed lens, or assist those who are trying to do so are welcome.