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
"We tried to carry the message"
I trust that my honest experience will resonate with people who are ready to hear it.
I've been working on my self-esteem long enough now to start feeling safer carrying the message to others. The language of Step 12 offers hints to help keep things manageable.
"We". I'm not alone. We in AWG agree that our message about autism and self-esteem recovery is important and that it's worth reaching out to others to spread it. I know other members are carrying the same message along with me, and that knowledge is with me every day.
"Tried". All I have to do is try. Since I know I can't predict or control the results of my tries, my trying is free from the stress of expectation. I trust other people to know what is right for them right now. As long as I have tried, my responsibility has been fulfilled. I can be satisfied with my effort.
"To carry". I simply carry the message, that's all. That means if people seem interested, I might tell them what I know about autism, my self-esteem journey, and AWG. I might also take the initiative to mention it to others if I think it might help them. That said, "carrying" the message doesn't mean insisting or pushing it on people, or mentioning it in situations where I don't feel safe. I trust myself to know and how when to open up, and I trust others to "take what they like, and leave the rest".
"The message". We say "the" message, it can have many variations. Just like everyone else, I have a unique, personal experience of autism, my self-esteem recovery, and what things have helped me in my self-esteem journey. The experience that is true to me is the one I represent to to others. I don't try to "tailor" my message to others or anticipate their experiences or needs. I trust that my honest experience will resonate with people who are ready to hear it.
Share questions:
- Do you try to carry the message about autism, self-esteem recovery, and AWG in your daily life? What does that look like?
- To you, what is "the message"?
- What parts of your experience do you feel comfortable sharing with people?
- In situations where actively sharing is not possible, are you still able to get satisfaction out of carrying the message inside?
- Do you feel that the way you act in daily life transmits or channels some of the connection you found in AWG?
- Any tools, resources, or strategies that helped you?
- Anything else to share?
AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Workbook
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3