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Module Two |
Reading Three: TV says kids are: |
Virginia Satir was another pioneer in self-psychology and believed in positive human nature. She spoke of life scripts and during family therapy, often had participants write out the sort of story or belief system that different member of the family held. It was therapeutic for those who wanted to gain insight into the psychology of the family tree and different messages about being human or being a specific gender.
Here is a poem she wrote when she was working with an angry young teen.
My Declaration of Self EsteemI 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. --- From Self Esteem by Virginia Satir |