New Resource: Worksheets for Building Your Relationship With Yourself as a Survivor

By Christine Murray

As a survivor of an abusive relationship, it’s natural to spend a lot of time reflecting on your experiences in relationships with others--including your abuser, as well as other people in your life like your family members, friends, and perhaps professionals from whom you sought support related to your abusive relationship. You may also spend time thinking about potential future romantic relationships, like whether and when you may want to start dating again or how to build a healthy romantic relationship after you’ve experienced an unhealthy, unsafe one. 

There is a lot of potential value in reflecting on your experiences in relationships with others, but there is one other relationship that’s important to give your time, care, and attention: Your relationship with yourself. Having a healthy relationship with yourself can increase the health of your relationships with others because how you view yourself impacts how you show up in your relationships with others. 

Today, we’re debuting our newest free Source for Survivors resource: Our Strengthening My Relationship with Myself Worksheets. You can download these for free by visiting this website: Source for Survivors Strengthening My Relationship with Myself Worksheets. This resource includes 3 worksheets: (1) Reflection questions to examine the current quality of your relationship with yourself; (2) A self-rating exercise to consider how your relationship with yourself impacts how you show up in your relationships with others; and (3) An opportunity to write a self-supporting letter to yourself. 

We hope you’ll find this to be a helpful resource along your healing journey. If you choose to complete these worksheets, we hope they will foster a better understanding of the importance of your relationship with yourself, as well as help you identify ways you can strengthen it.