- I have the right to feel safe and
to have a secure home life.
- I have every right to be respected
and not be hurt or abused.
- I do not have to punish myself
because other people have hurt me.
- I have the right to be angry or
upset and to have those feelings heard.
- I do not have to justify my self
harm to others.
- Other people's judgments of my
behaviour are based on their own fears and limitations. I am
coping the best way I know how.
- Others do not have to like what I
do to myself, nor do they have to be around when I hurt myself.
Each of us have our own needs and ways of coping.
- I have the right to own my body
and be in control of what happens to it. I also own my feelings
and am responsible for how I deal with them.
- I am not responsible for how other
people deal with their feelings.
- I have the right to express my
distress and given the things that have happened in my life, I should
be congratulated for having found a way of surviving.
- I am in charge of my life. I
have the right to say what I do and do not want for myself, now and in
the future. I also have the right to change my mind.
- I am the expert of my own life -
no one else really knows my reality and what I feel and need for
myself.
- I have the right to want attention
and to ask for support from people who could help - Although I realize
that people cannot always give me the support I need, I do not have to
see this as a rejection of me as a person.
- I have the right to want a lot of
support during difficult times. I am not at fault if existing
resources do not meet my needs.
- I have the right to have helpful
information made available to me.
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