Affirmations with other program work are a powerful tool for addressing our critical nature toward ourselves and others.  These affirmations represent basic truths that most of us did not receive as children, but we can claim as adults.  Read these affirmations out loud for several weeks.  You may also write down some of them and post them where you can read them.  With affirmations, we begin to challenge the inner Critical Parent.  We learn to give ourselves a break.

1. It is OK to know who I am.

2. It is OK to trust myself.

3. It is OK to say I am an Adult Child.

4. It is OK to know another way to live.

5. It is OK to say no without feeling guilty.

6. It is OK to give myself a break.

7. It is OK to cry when I watch a movie or hear a song.

8. My feelings are OK even if I am still learning how to distinguish them.

9. It is OK not to take care of others when I think.

10. It is OK to feel angry.

11. It is OK to have fun and celebrate.

12. It is OK to make mistakes and learn.

13. It is OK not to know everything.

14. It is OK to say "I don't know".

15. It is OK to ask someone to show me how to do things.

16. It is OK to dream and have hope.

17. It is OK to think about things differently than my family.

18. It is OK to explore and say, "I like this or I like that".

19. It is OK to detach with love.

20. It is OK to seek my own Higher Power.

21. It is OK to reparent myself with thoughtfulness.

22. It is OK to say I love myself.

23. It is OK to work an ACA program.

~ Adult Children Alcoholic/Dysfunctional Families, pp. 329-330
c. 2006 ACA World Service Organization
(aka the ACA Big Book or ACA Handbook)
Available at http://www.adultchildren.org/lit/Handbook.s