117 B R E A K I N G F R E E F R OM OU R AT TAC HM E N T S Do you feel any of these roles you are playing for others may be getting in the way? Detaching from roles you play for others doesn’t mean you have to give up the role. It may just mean you need to modify or share the role with someone else or ask others to do for themselves more than they have been. It will require a candid conversation with those you are playing the role for and an explanation of what you have learned about how you play that role. You will also need to include how it is interfering with the changes you want to make for yourself. This will require making requests of others to support you in making the shift in the role and to support you in making the changes you want to make. Then, being very specific, make requests of them and tell them what you need them to do to support you. It is very important that you take full responsibility for assuming the role up until now. Remember, we teach others how to treat us and much of the education comes in the roles we play. Here is an abbreviated strategy in shifting or modifying your roles: By detaching ourselves from certain roles we play or the degree we play those roles, we free ourselves up to make change and move forward. NOW LIST THREE OF THE BIGGEST CHANGES YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IN YOUR LIFE BUT ARE NOT MAKING FOR WHATEVER REASON. 1. 2. 3.
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