Understanding Family Scripts To understand more about how your identification in your family of origin developed, take a few minutes and think back to your adolescent (ages 12-18) days and answer the following questions:
When were you an adolescent?Note the ages and years that span your adolescence. e.g ages 13-18, e.g. 2012-2017.
What was the best thing that your family said about you or did for you?
Try and remember one exact day when that was said or done for you. Remember now what you felt then. When do you feel this way now?
Who did the family think you were like?
Did you have a nickname? How did you feel about it?
Did family members tell you what you would end up being? Or doing? Was it what you wanted to be or do? How did you respond?
How do you think your family would have described you to a close friend of theirs? What were they most concerned about for you?
What does your family want you to be like? To do in your life?
Summarize and reflect on what you learne