~ I am me ~

I am posting this for a dear friend of mine.. you know who you are... who has been having a hard time as of late.. and for anyone who doubts who they are or there worth. You are loved my friend..

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

by Virginia Satir