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 Readings
Self-esteem and current events: Part 2
Current events can change how I think about my values, and about how I express them. What happens then?
In Step 1, "We admitted that despite our efforts, many of the factors affecting our sense of self and self-esteem seemed out of control, leading to increased unmanageability in our lives." Sometimes, those "many factors" include current events. What happens then?
Good self-esteem involves living my values. But what does that look like when current events make me feel an even greater impetus to express my values in my daily life?
In Steps 10 and 11, I align my life, relationships, and actions with my values in a way that is healthy, sustainable, and manageable. But what if my alignments are disrupted by current events? And if events are in flux, how can I know what sustainability and manageability mean relative to what's happening?
I don't have these answers yet. But going back to earlier Steps is helping me to feel at least a little more grounded. I've been engaging with Steps 6, 7, 8, and 9: investigating the ways in which my sense of self and self-esteem are informed by outside influences, exploring the idea of individual needs and self-care, examining personal values, and considering the connections between myself, other individuals, and communities.
I'm finding my thoughts on each of these topics have changed a little since last time I worked the Steps. Noticing these changes helps me feel in touch with what's going on inside me. Eventually, I hope to form a new, up-to-date basis for Steps 10 and 11: updated alignments between my self-care, values, relationships, and my actions, in a way that is healthy and manageable for me.
The Steps are cyclical. Any time that "factors affecting my sense of self and self-esteem seem out of control, leading to increased unmanageability in my life," working the steps can help me find my way back to both authenticity and manageability.
Share questions:
- Has the way you think about your values, or how you express your values, ever been impacted by current events? It's okay to answer generally or with references to recent events.
- Have any of your Step 10/11 alignments ever been interrupted by current events? Please describe.
- How are current events affecting your thoughts on... the ways in which your sense of self and self-esteem are informed by outside influences? Individual needs and self-care? Personal values? Connections between yourself, other individuals, and community?
- Do you feel a stronger pull towards masking in everyday life if current events are difficult? How do you deal with that?
- Any tools, resources, or strategies to share?
- Anything else to add?
AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Workbook
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3