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
My relationship with hope
It's a new thing for me to explore the idea of hope as a positive emotion, and I am finding some strength in it.
Merriam Webster dictionary defines hope as "desire accompanied by expectation of or belief in fulfillment". Pre-identification, the "expectation" part of that definition was made difficult by my uncertainty in myself. For example, if I had an exam, I couldn't know if I'd be able to study or what state I'd be in on exam day. I still hoped to pass, but the "expectation of or belief in fulfillment" aspect seemed to be based on factors outside my control. That made hope a little painful at times, more like apprehension at what might happen than true hope for an expected outcome.
Hope has become easier now that I know I am autistic. Factors related to my autistic traits, like executive function struggles, are more predictable and able to be worked around, encouraging my "belief in fulfillment". I'm also more aware of what hopes are realistic or unrealistic for me given who I am. It's a new thing for me to explore the idea of hope as a positive emotion, and I am finding some strength in it.
Share questions:
- What, to you, is hope?
- Do you feel hope? What is it like?
- What has been your history with hope pre- and post-identification?
- What is hope's relationship to your sense of self? Self-esteem?
- What benefits might hope have in our daily lives? Drawbacks?
- Do you consider yourself a hopeful person?
- What are you hopeful about these days?
- Any tools, resources, or strategies that helped you?
- Anything else to add?
AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Workbook
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Step 3