AWG Secular 12 Step Self-Esteem Group 🚀
Code: 781927
Meeting description
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 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
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?
AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Workbook
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3