My Decleration of Self Esteem

allifantastical

I had gone to a counselor a few weeks ago to help me with the emotional side of weight loss and things that may have helped to trigger my obesity and he gave me this poem and it really touched me. I thought I would pass it along and see if it could touch anyone else the way it did me. ** sorry about the misspelling in the header topic, I didn't notice it until I already posted it!**

My Declaration of Self-Esteem

I am me.

In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone choose.

I own everything about me -- my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all its thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever they may be -- anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement; my mouth, and all the words that come out of it, polite, sweet or rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud or soft; and 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 can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests.

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 the 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 me. This is authentic and represents where I am at that moment in time.

When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting. I can discard that which is unfitting and keep that which proved fitting, and invent something new for that which I have 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 and I am okay.

V. Satir, "A Goal of Living", ETCETERA, December 1970.

fiona2785

That is brilliant! We don't take enough time to stop and think about ourselves like that. This will help me to remind myself that I'm not my mother, so I don't have to bluster through life claiming that I've got too many other people to think about to take care of myself.

Really hope this helps others, thanks so much for sharing it!

mrskwhite

Do you mind if I steal this for my next blog post?

I love this!

allifantastical

I'm glad you guys like it! Share on with everyone! This really motivated me and I hope it helps others too!