What are your basic rights?

Not your political rights but your basic human rights within relationships, your rights to self-care and your right to autonomy and independence. Your right to put yourself first sometimes!

The Basic Human Rights listed below have been created in various forms in assertiveness training courses. Read this list and consider how you fare in relation to your family – your parents, your partner, your children, your siblings. Have a then think about how assertive you are in relation to your friends socially, your community groups, employer, employees, work mates, colleagues etc.

Dysfunctional, abusive and unhealthy family structures fail to empower children to take charge of their lives as they mature.

• These children become adults that have developed a range of possible characteristics when they grow up in difficult families of origin
• learnt to devalue their feelings
• don’t express their opinions
• minimise their own needs
• prioritise others’ needs
• feel disconnected from themselves
• find it hard to ask for what they need
• are typically passive
• may have a sense of hopelessness
• can develop self destructive behaviours
• experience frequent low self esteem

If you find yourself living without a personal rudder, a lost adult then it may be that you were not given the basic human rights that support healthy lifestyles. You may not feel like you are entitled, nor deserving, but you are, by your very birthright you are indeed entitled to these basic human rights.

By Jane Macnaught

Jane Macnaught

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