“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
chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth,
my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my
fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own 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 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 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, 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.”
-Virginia Satir
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