I am me

Virginia Satir (維琴尼亞·薩提爾)是知名的心理治療師，也是家庭治療的先驅---這些都是我很後來才知道的!第一次認識Virginia Satir，其實是她的文字，為當時徬徨的我指向一盞明燈的方向，就這樣，我一直以為她是個作家，直到開始為了我的論文閱讀更多的家庭治療理論及Family Sculpture (家庭雕塑)技巧的使用時，我才豁然明白，原來Virginia Satir是個治療師，也是發展家庭雕塑的先驅之ㄧ!這樣的發現，更令我覺得神奇，也許當人有相似的信念時，也會喜歡上相似的理論

“I am me”，看似很簡單的道理，但我一直清楚記得，當我不停懷疑自己，指責自己時，抬頭看見一位治療師在他牆上所掛的這篇文字，我從一片淚眼矇娑中找到了依附的光明！

I am me by Virginia Satir
In all the world,
there is no one else exactly like me -
everything that comes out of me is authentically mine,
because I alone choose 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 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 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 turned out to be unfitting, I can discard that which I feel 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,
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 &

I AM OKAY

by Virginia Satir