AWG Secular 12 Step Self-Esteem Group 🚀
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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
Living life to the fullest?
I value the idea of living life to the fullest. Self-awareness about autism is making me reconsider what that means
From an anonymous contributor
Working Step 8 and examining the concept of personal values has made me realize that learning I’m autistic didn’t change my values, but changed my relationship to them. For example, I value the idea of living life to the fullest. Self-awareness about autism is making me reconsider what that means.
An important part of living life to the fullest, for me, has been the concept of hedonism, maximizing pleasure in life and minimizing pain. But after identification, I know I experience certain aspects of existence, like sensory input, more intensely than I was aware of before. That means I might need to integrate hedonism into my life in different ways from how I tried to before identification.
What about you? Has learning you’re autistic changed your relationship to any of your preexisting values? Do you understand “living life to the fullest” in a different way now?
Share questions:
- What, to you, is “living life to the fullest”, and has that definition changed at all since learning you are autistic?
- In what ways do you live life to the fullest as an autistic person?
- Post-identification, have you come to see any of your other values in a new light?
- Any tools, strategies, or resources to share?
- Anything else to add?
AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Workbook
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3