ME FIRST

Me First

first
I
must
be
me
not
thee

next
I
must
be
thee
not
me

—Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

Main Ideas

• Love Follows Self-Care
• Self-Care Comes First So You Can Love
• If you are sitting with children on an airplane, who do they tell you to put the oxygen masks on first?
• You and not them.
• Why?
• Because if you are not okay first, then you cannot help them.
• Yes, me first does work some of the time.
• Yes, me first is even necessary some of the time.

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Books of Poems

• Kevin’s Books of Poems

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Related Pages of Free Information

1. Ego Issues: 5 Functions & Parts of Self
2. Ego Issues: Be Container, Not Contents
3. Ego Issues: List Pages
4. Exercises & Techniques: List Pages
5. Self-Esteem Issues: List Pages
6. Self-Nature Issues: List Pages
7. Self-Nature Issues: Focus on 3 Truths for Right Identity
8. Recovery Issues: Temptation—A Strategy to Overcome

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6 Groups of Topics Menu

• 1. Pages by Topic
• 2. Fast-Facts by Topic
• 3. Quotations by Topic
• 4. Poems by Topic
• 5. Scripture by Topic
• 6. Websites by Topic

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9 Skills & Topics Menu

• 1. Anger Skills & Topics
• 2. Blame Skills & Topics
• 3. Communication Skills & Topics
• 4. Coping Skills & Topics
• 5. Counseling Skills & Topics
• 6. Praying Skills & Topics
• 7. Recovery Skills & Topics
• 8. Responsibility Skills & Topics
• 9. Thinking Skills & Topics

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