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 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-
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