AWG Secular 12 Step Self-Esteem Group
Code: 781927
Meeting description
- Find our own concept of self-esteem and grow toward it
- Come to discover a more realistic sense of our place in the world
- Reassess our relationships, especially in terms of our responsibilities towards ourselves and others
- Come to understand personal boundaries, their roles in our lives, and how to develop and maintain healthy boundaries
- Understand the concept of nonviolent detachment and how and when to enact it
- Develop more manageable lifestyles
- Develop a sense of self that leads to more health, well being, and manageability in our lives
- Release others from the responsibility of defining or reinforcing our sense of self-esteem
- Form personal goals about self-esteem and self-concept based on our own understanding of our own needs, as they exist today
AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Workbook
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Readings
Body Image
Learning I’m autistic helped me to stop yelling at myself for not being able to pursue every one of my body image goals. That said, I have new questions.
Before learning I am autistic, body image was one of the most unmanageable parts of my life. I told myself that if I could look a certain way to others, the chaos and confusion inside me would be banished. I had no way of knowing at the time that the main cause of my pain had little to do with the way I looked.
Learning I’m autistic helped me to stop yelling at myself for not being able to pursue every one of my body image goals. That said, I have new questions. What parts of my body image am I willing to spend spoons on? What if I don’t have the spoons even for those? Who do I want to consider when thinking of my body image—just me? My coworkers and clients? My partner? My family? What do I want to “get done” through how I look, and is that worth having less spoons in other important areas of my life? How does my gender identity relate to my body image? I’m still working it out.
- How is your current body image?
- Do negative or positive
aspects of your body image influence your sense of self and self-esteem?
- Do your
body image goals have anything to do with masking?
- Has your body image changed since you learned you are autistic? If yes, what was it like before, and what is it like now?
- Are there any strategies or resources that helped you?
- Anything else to add?