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
Still divided from my needs?
Is ableism keeping me from seeing my needs as a part of "me"?
While investigating the idea of ableism, I've realized that I still tend to separate my needs from my sense of self. It feels like "I" am whatever aspects of me help me to perform in the world of ableism, while the aspects of me that need accommodations and understanding are something else. I thought I left this division behind when I stopped masking as much, but no. I might outwardly behave as though I accepted my needs as part of my identity, but when I look closer, I feel almost as though the accommodations I make for myself are really for someone else. Like I'm my own child, a child I somehow still feel like I have to apologize for. I hope that someday I can feel that my needs are part of my wholeness. It might help to hear where each of you are on your own journeys with this.
Share questions:
- Does it feel like your needs are an integrated part of your sense of self, or do they feel separate? Please describe.
- Has it always been that way? If the way you see your needs changed at some point, when and how?
- Have any strategies helped you to feel at one with your needs? Self-talk, or maybe something else?
- Have any writers or other cultural influences helped you to feel more united with your needs?
- Are there ableist dimensions to how you think about your own needs? What are they?
- If you could magically have yourself feel any way about your own needs, what would it be?
- Any tools, strategies, or resources that helped you?
- Anything else to add?
AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Workbook
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Step 3