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My Declaration of Self-Esteem....
"I AM ME" In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically me. Because I alone chose it - I own everything about me. My body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself - I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears - I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me - by so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know - but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles, and for ways to find out more about me - However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically - Me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded - I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me - I own me, and therefore I can engineer me. I AM ME and I AM OKAY © Virginia Satir, 1975.
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Progress not perfection....
It’s Okay… It’s okay to stop the enabling and detach with love. It’s okay to set boundaries. It’s okay to say “No” and to make “No” a complete sentence. It’s okay to change my mind. It’s okay to have a “slip” and revert back to old behaviors. It’s okay to take care of myself and to engage in what some (outside of the program) might call “selfish” behavior. It’s okay to work my Al-Anon program my way in my own time and to know that I will never do it perfectly and that all I can hope for is progress. It’s okay to believe that I’m going to be “okay”. It’s okay to back off from an argument or disagreement by saying, “You may be right” instead of being determined to “win”. It’s okay to forgive myself, understanding that I did the best I could at the time. It’s okay to “take what I like and leave the rest”. It’s okay to define my Higher Power exactly as I wish and to know that mine doesn’t have to match yours. - -Arlois M
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