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
Join using same Zoom link every Tuesday. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82411424876?pwd=UVg1c0ZXc1dGMmE1c1F5em9udGJjQT09
Meeting ID: 824 1142 4876
Code: 781927
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
What self-perceptions are really mine?
Monday, July 28, 2025
The Step 2 idea of "my perceptions about myself" can be its own challenge
Like Step 2 says, I'm trying to come to believe that some of my pre-identification ideas about myself might not be true. But to be honest, I've spent so much time seeing myself through the eyes of others that the term "my perceptions about myself" is its own challenge!
Every time I try to imagine self-perceptions, I end up seeing myself through someone else's eyes. My partner. My teacher. My sibling. My parent. My boss. I'm not sure how to break through this wall to find my own perceptions. Has anyone else here gone through this?
Share questions:
- Has it ever been a challenge to determine which perceptions of you were yours, and which seemed to belong to other people? How might this situation have arisen?
- How can you tell when a perception about your is yours as opposed to someone else's?
- Have any other circumstances contributed to this difficulty? Lack of boundaries? Difficulty hierarchizing information? Being trusting? A predilection towards relativism? Holotropism? Other?
- Were some self-perceptions forced on you by others, while some you "just picked up on"? Describe.
- How did you find your own self-perceptions?
- Any strategies, tools, or resources that helped you?
- Anything else to add?
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