I AM ME

In all the world,

there is no one else exactly like me

everything that comes out of me is authentically mine,

because I alone choose 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 turned out to be unfitting, I can discard that which I feel 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, and 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 &

I AM OKAY

-Virginia Satir-