• I am a wonderful person
• I am unique - there is no-one else like me
• I am loveable
• I am a good person on the inside and outside
• I am not alone
• I will recover from this
• I did not choose to feel like this
• I can get better
• It's not my fault
• People DO care about me
• I deserve good things in my life
• I can trust some people
• I can protect myself
• I can ask for help when I need it
• I am able to love
• I am worthy of love, care and attention
• I DO help people
• I deserve respect
• It's OK to feel the way I do

Declaration of Self Esteem

I am me. In all the world there is no one else like me. There are
persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly 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, disappointment, excitement, my mouth and all the
words that come out of it - polite, sweet or rough, correct or
incorrect; my voice loud or soft; and 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 can then make it possible for all
of me to work in my best interests.

I know there are aspects about me 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 the 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 me. This is authentic and
represents 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 hear, feel, think, say and do. I have the tools to survivie, 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.

Author: V.Satir