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- 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
behavior 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 has 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 in 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.
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