WHO SPEAKS THROUGH YOU? WHAT TAPES ARE RUNNING?

1) What were the rules of your childhood homes? Spoken and Unspoken

2) What qualities were emphasized?

3) What was expected from you? Performance? Adjustment? Was anger ok? Was mad laughter frowned upon? Was individuality encouraged?

4) What did you pick up from their lifestyle? What examples did they set? 

5) Describe your parents as you saw them then and now?

6) What core concepts did you pick up from parents and guides and culture? View the same through peers, teacher, others in formative years

7) What old tapes still run through your mind? What does your mother or father speak as your inner critic?

8) What message do you yearn to hear? I am loved; I am safe; I am good enough; I matter; I deserve…