Personal Rights
- I have numerous choices in my life beyond mere survival.
- I have the right to know and discover my child within.
- I have the right to grieve over what I didn’t get that I needed or what I did get that I didn’t need or want.
- I have the right to follow my own values and standards.
- I have the right to accept my own value system as appropriate.
- I have the right to say no to anything when I feel that I am not ready, it is unsafe or it violates my values.
- I have the right to dignity and respect.
- I have the right to make decisions.
- I have the right to determine and honour my own priorities.
- I have the right to have my needs and wants respected by others sincerely.
- I have the right to terminate conversations with people when I feel put down and humiliated.
- I have the right not to be responsible for other people’s behaviour, actions, feelings and problems.
- I have the right to make mistakes and not to be perfect.
- I have the right to expect honesty from others.
- I have the right to have all of my own feelings.
- I have the right to be angry with someone I love.
- I have the right to be uniquely me, without feeling ‘not good enough’.
- I have the right to feel scared and to say ‘I am afraid’.
- I have the right to experience and then let go of; fear, anger, guilt and shame.
- I have the right to make decisions based on my feelings, my judgment, or any reason that I choose.
- I have the right to change my mind at any time.
- I have the right to be happy.
- I have the right to stability – i.e. roots and stable healthy relationships of my choice.
- I have the right to my own personal time and space needs.
- There is no need to smile when I am uncomfortable or in pain or sad.
- It is okay to be relaxed and frivolous and playful.
- I have the right to be flexible, and to be comfortable being so.
- I have the right to change and grow.
- I have the right to be open and to improve my communication skills so that I will be understood.
- I have the right to make friends and to be comfortable around people.
- I have the right to be in a non-abusive environment.
- I can be healthier than those around me.
- I can take care of myself, no matter what.
- I have the right to grieve over actual or threatened losses.
- I have the right to trust those who have earned my trust.
- I have the right to forgive others and to forgive myself.
- I have the right to give and to receive unconditional love.
- I have the right to challenge you to give yourself these same rights that I claim for myself.