The following themes are covered in books about self-awareness:
- What's in a Name; being in between culture, identity and language, literal and metaphorical transformation of self
- Self and family/ self and community/ family rituals and traditions and rootedness, sense of home
- Existential issues, establishing one's identity, coming to terms with one's differentness, body/image issues; recognizing strengths needs and values; confidence hope and self-esteem and self-efficacy
- Invisibility, imagination, neglectful parents; resorting to imagination to cope
- Gender identity
- Identifying and recognizing emotions; sibling relations; passing of the seasons
- Spirituality, faith, festive traditions celebrating religions
Credit to: Dr. Myra Bacsal NIE Singapore
