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Table of Contents
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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
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Removing Emotional Trash
Module 2 –
Helping You Feel Better TODAY
Module 3 –
Helping You Move FORWARD
Module 4 – Parents' Program
Module 5 – Siblings' Program
Help Guide
Helpful Offers For You
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The Girl With
Self-Esteem Issues: A Memoir
By Rosie Mercado
The Self-Love Workbook
For Teens
By Shainna Ali
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Do your family's
rigid religious beliefs ever get in the way of
your transitioning to become a girl?
How much stress and anxiety does that cause you?
Backward8
Protocol for
Clearing Out Your
Stress & Anxiety You Feel From Your
Family's Rigid Anti-Transgender Religious Beliefs
DO THIS FIRST:
Make a list of everything that causes you to feel grief
(or that you have felt in
the past)
from your family's strict conservative, or religious beliefs.
Don't be afraid to
add something to the list if it feels frustrating 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
is applicable). |
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What makes me feel upset or frustrated about my family's rigid anti-transgender
religious beliefs?
I feel so overwhelmed
by my family's religious beliefs,
I keep thinking there is no way out for me,
I feel so trapped by the religious bigotry in my family,
I feel so isolated as a trans- girl in this
religious-conservative family,
I get so lonely in this ultra-conservative family,
I feel so hopeless, because I am stuck in this
religious-thinking family,
I get so frustrated that I can't dress as a girl
whenever I want to,
I get so frustrated when my family doesn't take me seriously
as a girl,
I know the Bible doesn't say anything negative about
transgender people,
I feel so frustrated over being in the _______ religion,
I keep making this same mistake, when I think my family will
accept me as a girl,
I get so upset when somebody calls me a he,
I feel so upset whenever somebody in church calls me "the
devil's child",
I get so upset when somebody ridicules me, just because I
_______,
I always get so frustrated at _______,
I get so frustrated when _______ laughs at my _______,
I get so frustrated when _______ sees me as nothing more
than a little boy,
I really hate when I get read as a boy dressed as a girl,
I feel like society will never grow up, and accept
transgender people like me,
I feel like I just want to die,
I often feel like I want to kill myself,
I feel like dying is the ONLY way I'll ever feel truly free
of this nightmare,
I really want to tell my _______ to shove it,
I feel so mad that I want to hit something - whenever I
_______,
I still feel some of this remaining frustration from
________,
Please add more
of your own
feelings of grief
caused by your family to this list. |
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 –
instead of a negative thought! |
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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 relax, and remember that I am awesome just the way I am!"
For example:
If your
statement was...
"I
feel so frustrated when my uptight religious family won't accept me as a girl."
Your new statement would then become:
"Even
though
I feel so frustrated when
my uptight religious family won't accept me as a girl,
87654321
I CHOOSE to
relax, and remember that I am awesome just the way I am!"
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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