I'm choosing to talk about my past because I want to recover and be free.

I'm choosing to see people as they truly are through the eyes of an adult and not through the eyes of a child.

I'm choosing higher education because it is something I have always wanted for myself. I love to learn new things.

I'm choosing my particular field of learning because I feel that I have an aptitude for it, as well as concern and compassion for people going through certain crises.

I'm choosing to write about my feelings so I can see them as reality on paper. They are much less forbidding written in purple ink!

I'm choosing to be happy today because it's sunny outside and it makes me feel good.

I'm choosing to believe The Five Freedoms apply to me too. They are my rights!

I'm choosing to believe that the abuses inflicted on me were not my fault.  Children have no choice, but adults do.  I do not have to allow people to abuse me as an adult.  People can only do to you what you let them do.

I'm choosing who to trust and share my feelings with. I do not have to speak to a WCG "minister" to appease someone else's feelings. I do not have an obligation to discuss private things with just anyone. I can say, "I don't care to discuss that" and not feel guilty about it.

I'm choosing not to feel guilty about other people's problems or choices.  I am responsible for my choices only.