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Change your story, change your life

• We are our story and all our relationships will fit into the context of  our story.
• We are our story and our confidence will fit into the context of our story.

Story-time ~ First years

Bring yours into transparency:

“My Story, by ……………………………………………”

I grew up believing I was…………………………………………, as I was the ……………. child, and I developed…………………………………… My father was …………………………………………. and my mother was…………………………………………. My earliest memories are of how ……………………………….spent time with me. They had, didn’t have  the time to spend with me in my earliest development stage by encouraging me, playing with me and letting me develop at my own pace. They did/didn’t make eye contact that reflected I was beautiful and magnificent.   After-all they ………………………………………………….

From my ………………..(?)……………………I learned to say my first words and listening to them I was able to put sentences together. So I began to think in a similar way. ……………………………shaped my thinking patterns that I now take for granted.  I watched………………………………….to see how they reacted to me, others and their changing environment and this began to shape my emotional reactions. I noticed how their voices changed and the things they talked about to discover what was important to them. Some of my earliest memories of what was important to my ……………………………………. was

I remember going to school and making my first friends and how they looked different from me. I was able to compare myself to them and the differences that stood out to me was that I was ………………and they where …………………………………………………..   As we continued to grow and develop the changes began to …………………………………………………………….. The teacher ………………………was ………………………………………….to me. The teachers name was and he/she had/didn’t have time to spend with me in a kind, gentle way that I felt……..comfortable and at ease with this new …………………………………

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Notice how these early experiences now define your first reactions to any stimulus that you experience in your relationships.  I refer to stimulus as anything that brings you from your center of peace and inner quiet.  It will be what brings you into action or reaction.

______________________________________________________________by Renee Lindstrom, getting InTouch Connecting for Inside Awareness -2013