Contents

1. Dedication

2. Letter to Readers

3. I. Questions About the Affirmations

   1. 1. What are the Developmental Affirmations?

   2. 2. Where can I find a list of the Developmental Affirmations?

   3. 3. What are the colored Affirmation Ovals?

   4. 4. Who are the Affirmations for?

   5. 5. Why would I want to use them?

4. II. How to Use the Developmental Affirmations

   1. 6. How are the Developmental Affirmations used?

   2. 7. Can I do activities with the Developmental Affirmations?

   3. 8. Do I have to use the exact words of the Affirmations?

   4. 9. Can I use them for myself?

   5. 10. Can I write my own affirmations?

   6. 11. What if you haven’t been offering these affirmations, and wish you had?

   7. 12. When do you not offer Developmental Affirmations?

   8. 13. What if you or someone else doesn’t believe an affirmation?

   9. 14. How can professionals integrate Developmental Affirmations into their work?

5. III. Affirmation Ovals

   1. 15. Why use the colored oval disks? Why not just use the list of Affirmations?

   2. 16. What is the sub-set of affirmations called the Love Affirmations?

6. IV. Developmental Stages

   1. 17. What are the developmental stages of growing up?

   2. 18. What if I don’t know about the Developmental Stages?

   3. 19. How are Developmental Affirmations and Stages of Development connected?

   4. 20. What is Developmental Recycling?

7. V. History and Background on Developmental Affirmations

   1. 21. Who identified the Developmental Affirmations?

   2. 22. Who field-tested the Affirmations?

   3. 23. When were the Developmental Affirmations identified?

   4. 24. Why were they identified?

   5. 25. What thoughts, values and theories underly the Developmental Affirmations?

8. Afterword

9. Appendix