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Yasmin’s account:

Stage 1:

Yasmin thinks she is a bad person.

Stage 2:

She decides that she can test this by asking her friends and family what she is like and if they see her in this way.

Stage 3:

Yasmin thinks if this Root Belief were to be true she would be unhappy and ashamed.

Stage 4:

Yasmin speaks to friends and family to see what they think of her. She also writes down all the good things she has done for others and herself in the past month.

Stage 5:

She has learnt that her Root Belief may be exaggerated as she found out she had done lots of good things for other people recently such as helping an elderly lady cross the road, picking up a wallet and handing it in to the police, helping a friend who had broke up with her boyfriend and had been helping her younger cousin with spelling homework. Her family and friends told her she was kind, funny but too hard on herself! Her more balanced Root Belief is: I’m not perfect but who is?