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AWG Secular 12 Step Self-Esteem Group

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Zoom access and meeting times

Meetings are every Tuesday from 11 am to 12 pm Eastern US Time. See Meeting Time in a Different Time Zone


Meeting ID: 824 1142 4876
Code: 781927

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Meeting description

This is a secular 12 Step meeting focused on self-esteem recovery for late-identified autistic women and members of all other marginalized genders (nonbinary, gender fluid, MTF/FTM trans, agender, autigender, and more). 

We meet each Tuesday on Zoom, practice the AWG 12 Steps using the AWG 12 Step Workbook, share in response to weekly readings, and participate in the optional co-mentorship program if we so desire. 

It is not mandatory to turn on your mic or camera. Coming to listen is totally fine. By taking part, we hold space for others, and ourselves, to participate in a way that is manageable for us as we exist right now.

It is not necessary to actively be doing the AWG 12 Steps in order to be a full participant. Any contact with the group and its resources can be beneficial as long as it’s sustainable for each of us as individuals. Many of us participate simply by attending meetings.

As we participate in this meeting over time, we might find ourselves seeking to…

  • 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

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.

Step 2

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Step 3

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Step 4

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AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Readings

Towards a new closing affirmation

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

In relation to our current 12 Steps, what are the most important ingredients for a closing affirmation for this meeting?

Our closing affirmation has served us well. But now that we have a new 12 Steps, the focus of of the group has expanded a bit. Today we share on our ideas for a new or modified closing affirmation that reflects our new 12 Steps.

Current closing affirmation:

Knowing I am autistic, I can learn to distinguish between harmful mistakes I should make amends for, and autistic traits I’m not to blame for. If anyone has harmed me in any way, I know how to self-care and set boundaries in ways which suit me, even when those ways are not intuitive to others. If a situation is unmanageable right now, I trust in myself, the autistic community, and the world to show me strengths beyond my current awareness as time goes by.

Share questions:

  • In relation to our current 12 Steps, what are the most important ingredients for a closing affirmation for this meeting?
  • What do we want our closing affirmation to affirm?
  • Do you have any ideas for specific phrases or keywords that should go in the closing affirmation?
  • Should our closing affirmation reference self-esteem and sense of self? In what way?
  • Anything else to add?
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