The Seven Step Program

The 7 step program:

1) It’s my life

2) My soul is beautiful

3) Emotions add color to the world

4) Teaching my brain to reward me

5) Creating feelings in others

6) Opening my heart to create what I want

7) Relationships

Each step and peer support group will enhance our experience of life.

Step 1 – “It’s my life”

A person entering the group accepts that they are now “their own parent” and have the responsibility of giving themselves the love and happiness, they always wanted to have.

We take responsibility for hearing and seeing who we are. This means that we honor our feelings.When we cry inside, we hear it and do something about it. When we are our own parent and hear our inner child, we feel heard. When we listen we become more alive.

When we laugh and are happy, we reward ourselves by being proud we were good to our inner child. In this way we feel seen for who we are. We become more confident and whole each time we reward what makes us happy.

By being there all the time for our inner child, we re-pattern our early bonding experience. Because of this we have an enhanced experience of ourselves in the world.

As we feel ourselves as a caring and loving parent that is always there, we develop object permanence. Object permanence is the grounded feeling people want. We feel safe, at home and wanted no matter where we are.

The group allows members to talk about the new relationship they have with themselves and how they are parenting their inner child. We support each other as loving and compassionate parents that are learning more all the time.

This first step in opening our heart, is wonderful when we have support for the work we do.