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SELF ESTEEM

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
in Health & Wellbeing
Not sure whether this should be here or anything goes, but I just found a poem I'd like to share about self esteem, that I was given in a group therapy session in hospital.
SELF ESTEEM by Viginia Satir


I am me
In all the world, there is no one else like me,
there are persons who have some parts like me,
Therefore everything that comes out of me
is authentically mine because I alone chose it
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 disapointment, exitement;
My mouth, and all the words that come out of it,
polite, sweet, rough, correct or incorrect;
My voice, loud or soft; and all my actions,
whether they be to others or myself.
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and sucesses,
all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me,
I can become imediately aquainted 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 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 puzzelsand for the ways to find out more about me.
However I look and sound,
Whatever I say and do,
and whateverI think and feel at a given moment in time is me.
This is authentic andrepresents 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 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

sorry for such a long one, just wanted to share that with you all.
Take care one and all.
Love and Peace
LUKA
The river is wide and oh so deep. I've been walking around in tears, No answers arethere to get. Cause between this world and eternity there is a face I hope to see

Comments

  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What a wonderful way to get to being insane Luka <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

    well done m8

    j9
    I had a life once, but I stopped feeding it so one day it just walked away.

    MTS ^5 ;)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think i need to print this out and read it every single day!

    Not cos ive got no confidence but so i can make myself do things because i am me!!!

    <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by j9:
    What a wonderful way to get to being insane Luka <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

    well done m8

    j9


    really hadn't noticed, finally a status that matches my diagnosis's from the dr's maybe Dom or Karla's spoken to my consultant <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif"&gt; lol

    thank you though J9

    Luk
    The river is wide and oh so deep. I've been walking around in tears, No answers arethere to get. Cause between this world and eternity there is a face I hope to see
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    This is so strange!

    I finished my drug rehab program today (went great, BTW), and the poem our group read at the graduation ceremony is the one you just posted!

    Here I am, on the other side of the world, reading the same poem and thinking the same thoughts without realizing it. Makes you think...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Great poem LUKA <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">.

    Nice to see you back Burnout_Girl (maybe now you should be Phoenix_Girl <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt; ), I'm glad it went well.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Burnout_Girl:
    This is so strange!

    I finished my drug rehab program today (went great, BTW), and the poem our group read at the graduation ceremony is the one you just posted!

    Here I am, on the other side of the world, reading the same poem and thinking the same thoughts without realizing it. Makes you think...

    Welcome Back Burnout, great to see you are back. Hope things went well for you, you have been missed and our thoughts have been with you.

    I guess that poem is bulk standard for hospitals, clinics, therapy centres to help us pick ourselves up off the ground, but it's got such a nice sentiment to it. <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

    Once again great to see you back

    Luv
    LUK
    The river is wide and oh so deep. I've been walking around in tears, No answers arethere to get. Cause between this world and eternity there is a face I hope to see
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    thats a beautiful poem Luka, and i can really relate to it.

    Thanks for sharing it. <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

    I am going to print it out and read it every day! It might help make me a better person <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;
    The more sand that escapes through the hourglass of time, the clearer we should be able to see through it.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Luka,
    That poem really inspired me, i suffer from depression and quite severe self esteem problems and i found that just reading it helped. Are you named Luka after the song?
    <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;
    I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Burnout_Girl:
    This is so strange!

    I finished my drug rehab program today (went great, BTW), and the poem our group read at the graduation ceremony is the one you just posted!


    Great to see u Burnout, how did it go?

    Make a new post <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">? Maybe a diary post?

    j9

    I had a life once, but I stopped feeding it so one day it just walked away.

    MTS ^5 <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/wink.gif"&gt;

    [This message has been edited by j9 (edited 25-01-2001).]
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by citrus_fruit:
    Luka,
    That poem really inspired me, i suffer from depression and quite severe self esteem problems and i found that just reading it helped. Are you named Luka after the song?
    <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;


    I am so glad that you all enjoyed the poem, the sentiment is nice, I hope it has helped bring a little light into your lives <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">.

    I guess the same old shit never changes I had my first session with my CPN today what a pointless waste of time that was. I feel worse now than I did before I went in. As I said in another post there are still times I feel this bad and this is one of them. Fighting the urge to harm or worse. Still I won't go on.

    Yes Citrus My name does come from Suzzane Vega's song LUKA, http://www.thesite.org/ubb/Forum22/HTML/000070.html this link is a thread which explains most of our names.

    Peace All
    Luk
    The river is wide and oh so deep. I've been walking around in tears, No answers arethere to get. Cause between this world and eternity there is a face I hope to see
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Luka thank u for the poem and Im sorry to hear that thing r bad again. Give your CPN some time. I dreaded mine coming over and I thought she was doin nothing for me, but now I think she aint that bad. Its good to no that somebody will b there to see u if u r really shitty rather than goin it alone (which u dont have to anyway, coz u got us <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">). Hope things get a bit better though..hang in there!

    Glad to hear u r doin well burnout_girl. If u feel u can why not tell us wat it was like, Im interested to no but its up to u if u dont feel comfortable thats fine <IMG alt="image" alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/wink.gif"&gt;
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I thought I'd read this after you told me about it. It really is a great poem and maybe I should take notice of it cause self esteem is what i don't have!
    Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive
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