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
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
• 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
Self-esteem: what is it good for?
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
I know I'm trying to raise my self-esteem, but what are my reasons?
Part of my demand-avoidant self bristles at the idea that I need to improve my self-esteem. People have been telling me all my life that self-esteem is a good thing, and I guess I believe them, but I'm the kind of person who needs my own reasons if I'm really going to throw myself into something. Will increased self-esteem improve my emotional life? Psychological life? Social relationships? Relationship with myself? Material security or physical safety? Or something else? Maybe picturing the benefits can help me feel more motivated to work for higher self-esteem.
Share questions:
- Why are you working on your self-esteem?
- Are there specific benefits you are aiming for?
- What have you heard from others about the benefits of self-esteem? What rings true to you, and what not so much?
- What benefits have you already seen from your self-esteem journey?
- Have their been any unexpected benefits from pursuing higher self-esteem?
- Any benefits you were expecting, but now think probably come from something besides self-esteem?
- Any tools, strategies, or resources that helped you?
- Anything else to add?
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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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