After the hand massage, it can be helpful to journal or share with another person your answers to these sentence stems.
- Mother gave me the sense that my body was…
- Mother gave me the sense that sex was…
- Mother gave me a view of men as…
- Mother gave me the sense that love was…
- When Mother touched or held me, I felt…
- Father gave me the sense that my body was…
- Father gave me the sense that sex was…
- Father gave me a view of men as…
- Father gave me the sense that love was…
- One of the unspoken messages I got from Father about love was…
- When my Father touched or held me, I felt…
- I am becoming aware…
- I am beginning to suspect…
- If it turns out I don’t need my parent’s permission to be a sexual being…
- If I were fully willing to own and experience my own sexuality…
- If I were fully accepting of my own body…
- If I were to admit how much I enjoy sex…
- If I didn’t ever worry about my masculinity/femininity…
~ Harville Hendrix
