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What Causes Your Anxiety?
Your Best Anxiety Solution
Frequently
Asked Questions - 1
Procedure
For Use
Practice Exercises
Frequently
Asked Questions - 2
Module 1
Removing Emotional Trash
Module 2
Helping You Feel Better TODAY
Module 3
Helping You Move FORWARD
Module 4 Parents' Program
Module 5 Siblings' Program
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4-4
Embarrassed yet?

If you feel
embarrassed to be seen with, or are ashamed of your child,
in any way, those negative feelings can have an extremely detrimental
effect on your
overall relationship. Therefore, clearing out your feelings of
embarrassment, shame,
or hurt now, can make a profound difference in your lives together!
Here You Will Use This
Backward8 Exercise for
Clearing Out Any
Embarrassment, Shame and Hurt You
Might Feel About Your Child
Completing this exercise
can help you feel dramatically better about yourself and your life!
DO
THIS FIRST:
Make a list of every
negative emotion you feel about your child
that causes you any
embarrassment, shame, or hurt...
Don't be
afraid to add something to the list if it feels shameful to you.
Please try to be as specific as possible. And just remember....
THERE ARE
NO WRONG ANSWERS!!!
Start each
statement in your list with the letter
I
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I've
given you several good examples so you will know exactly
what you need to do. You are welcome to use these stressful
examples in your list, and add more of your own. These
examples are offered to help REMIND you of many different
types of common stressful issues.
You
SHOULD STILL work through all of these examples
even if they do not directly apply to your own situation.
Also, wherever you see a blank spot in a phrase, such as
__________, please fill in the blank your own appropriate
response if possible (and if it
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What shame, embarrassment, betrayal, or hurt do I feel over
my child
wanting to live as a male
(or anything else about
your child)?
I often
feel _______ at my child for putting our family through
_______,
I feel so _______ with my child for doing this,
I feel so hurt by my child's acting like a male,
I feel like I did something wrong to _______,
I often feel like I should have shown more love and
attention to _______,
I feel like I caused his _______ to dress and act like a
male,
I often feel embarrassed to be seen with my cross-dressed
child in public,
I often get a strong feeling of tension whenever somebody
sees us together,
I feel so hurt when people give me grief about _______,
I don't feel confident in myself and my abilities when it
comes to supporting my _____,
I feel ______ when I tell somebody that my child likes
dressing as a boy,
I just don't know if I can shake this overwhelming ______,
I feel like I am not strong enough to get over this shame
from _______,
I really feel so _______ when my child wears those ______,
I feel like such a complete fool for ________,
I don't feel like I deserve to have a good life,
I feel like I am not worthy of having good things like
_______ in my life,
I feel so _______ because my kids are losing their sister,
I feel _______ because everybody must think of my child as
a freak,
I still feel some of this remaining shame from ________,
I still feel some of this remaining embarrassment from
________,
I still feel some of this remaining betrayal from ________,
I still feel some of this remaining hurt from ________,
Please add more examples
of your own to this list.
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Note:
Whenever you clear out the anxious intensity from the negative
aspects of an issue, it can be extremely helpful
if you replace that negative issue with an empowering,
positive CHOICE statement (a
Backward8
Power-Phrase).
And, there is nothing more empowering than making a
definitive choice to do something. That is why this
next step gives you a positive-choice affirmation
immediately following the removal of a negative issue using
the special anxiety-clearing exercises in this
Backward8
course.
PLUS, this step will help to make it a permanent habit for
you to automatically LINK a positive thought to any negative
issue, so that whenever something negative happens to you, a
positive thought will immediately
and automatically pop into your mind
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DO THIS SECOND:
Create Your Backward8
Power-Phrases...
Write "Even
though" in front
of each of your statements,
and
add 87654321 after your statements.
Then, add the following
words to the end of your statement:
"I
CHOOSE to love and accept all of me!"
For
example:
If your statement was...
"I always feel so
embarrassed to be seen with my cross-dressed child."
Your new statement would then become:
"Even though
I always feel so
embarrassed to be seen with my cross-dressed child,
87654321
I CHOOSE to love
and accept all of me!"
Do that for every
issue statement in your list from above.
You are welcome to
modify the positive choice
Power-Phrases so they are
more applicable
to your own specific needs.
Just make sure every statement is positive, personal, and in the
present tense
(as though it is already happening now).
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DO THIS
THIRD:
Perform Your Backward8
Procedure
Remember, this works the same way as anything else, the more
counting
repetitions you do,
the better your results
will be! So...KEEP
COUNTING!
Procedure
Select
a statement from your list above, and
mentally visualize
(imagine) yourself
feeling the stressful intensity that
you WOULD feel if you were actually experiencing
that
right now, then repeat each of your complete statements as
you have written
them out (including counting backward from 8)!
Keep repeating this process for each issue until you no longer feel any
intensity from the issue!
You will gain positive results for some issues much faster
than you will for other issues.
So, be patient, and your results will come for you.
Backward8
is a process, NOT an event!
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NOTE...
It is very common for
other thoughts or emotions to pop into your mind while you are counting.
While you're doing the exercises,
you will likely discover all kinds of new, unrealized
thoughts
and emotions that may have been
buried deep within your subconscious mind for
years...
possibly even since your early childhood.
If, at anytime, while you're working through any of the
exercises in this Backward8
course,
you notice any other negative thoughts or stressful emotions
popping up, even if they do not directly
apply to the
particular exercise you're working on at the moment, then
you should write
them down,
and take some extra time to clear all of those negative
issues, as soon as possible! It's THOSE
negative thoughts
and emotions that will get in your way as you go forward in
your life!
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Releasing Your Sense Of Loss Over Losing Your Female
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