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by Virginia Satir  
 
I AM ME  
 
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me.  
Everything that comes out of me is authentically me.  
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 to myself - I own my fanatasies,  
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 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 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