Faml220 Document Mychoicediagram
Faml220 Document Mychoicediagram
Faml220 Document Mychoicediagram
My Choice Diagram
Sense/Desire
I want to give my sister a compliment. PERSON
I see her as a person. Heart at
Peace
Choice Honor
Betray
How I See Myself How I see the Others
OBJECT
I feel guilty, selfish, and angry with I see others as objects that I have to fulfill
tasks for (compliment them). They are Heart at war
myself for not giving the compliment. I
start to see myself as an object because something that takes up my time and energy.
my self-worth is weakened.
Using the example of eating healthy and exercising, if I betrayed my senses to do these
things, I would feel like others were better than me or even judging me. I wasn’t being working
out, so now I am judging my body image to others and am feeling like I am fat an ugly. I wasn’t
eating healthy, so now people think I eat unhealthily all of the time and have no self-control.
If I have a sense of doing something for myself and I don’t do it, I feel bad. For example,
if I was trying to eat healthy, but I decided to eat a cookie and a brownie, then I would feel bad
about myself. I would see myself as unhealthy, gross, without self-discipline, pathetic and
ultimately a failure.
The feelings I would have relate closely to the previous section. I would feel like a
failure. I have tried changing my habits of eating and exercising, but they don’t ever last.
Physically, I would feel gross and less energized. Mentally, I would feel defeat, disappointment,
No, I would not feel justified. I probably wouldn’t do anything at the time to change my
decision, but I would not consider it justified. I would feel that I could do much better, but I just
I would say that it was like a self-betrayal. I didn’t do all that I could for myself because I
just didn’t want to or I was too lazy. I did nothing that would be of any benefit in the long run.
My sense was to work out and eat healthy, but I didn’t do what I thought was right for myself.
How can understanding the My Choice Diagram and Self-Betrayal relate back to parenting
While working with children, parents and caregivers do what they think to be right in the
moment, or they do the opposite because of reaction to a situation. If they did something that
they felt was right at the time and then see that it was wrong after the fact, parents/caregivers
would probably have some self-betrayal. Understanding the My Choice Diagram and Self-
Betrayal would help parents to see children as people rather than objects and reduce the amount