Redecision Work in Transactional Analysis
Transactional Analysis (TA) helps you to understand the patterns that shape your life. One of its most impactful techniques is Redecision work, a process that enables you to challenge and change the limiting decisions you made as a child. By engaging in Redecision work, you can free yourself from the constraints of your life ‘Script’ and experience greater closeness to others, more spontaneity in life and greater awareness of yourself in the world.
Understanding Redecision Work
Redecision work is rooted in the idea that, as children, we make decisions based on our early experiences, often in response to the messages we receive from caregivers or the environment. These decisions form the foundation of our life Script—an unconscious life plan that guides how we think, feel, and behave. While these decisions may have been adaptive or necessary in childhood, they often become restrictive in adulthood, holding us back from achieving our full potential as we are no longer children who need to ‘be’ a certain way in order to stay safe or survive. For example, a child who felt unloved might decide, ‘I’ll never ask for help because I have to do everything on my own’; As an adult, this decision might lead to struggles with relationships, work, or self-care. Redecision work involves identifying these early decisions and consciously choosing new ones that align with your current needs, values, and goals.
How Redecision Work Can Help You
If you feel stuck in repetitive patterns or find yourself held back by self-doubt or limiting beliefs, redecision work can be a transformative step forward. Here’s how it helps:
Uncovering Early Decisions
Through exploration, we’ll identify the key decisions you made in childhood that continue to shape your life. These decisions are often buried in your subconscious but reveal themselves through recurring struggles or emotional responses.
Challenging Old Beliefs
Once you’ve uncovered these decisions, redecision work helps you examine whether they’re still valid or helpful. You’ll learn to question beliefs like ‘I’m not good enough’, or ‘I must always please others to be loved.’
Making New, Empowering Choices
In a safe and supportive therapeutic space, you’ll have the opportunity to make conscious, new decisions that reflect your Adult understanding and desires. These redecisions allow you to step out of Script and into a life that better meets your needs today.
Creating Lasting Change Redecision work doesn’t just stop at the new decision. It involves integrating these changes into your daily life, helping you develop new patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that reinforce your freedom from old ways of being.
Breaking Free from Script
Your life Script is not your destiny. Through Redecision work, you can reclaim your autonomy to choose; this process is both liberating and empowering, helping you:
Build healthier relationships by shifting outdated relational patterns.
Cultivate self-confidence by letting go of limiting beliefs.
Make conscious decisions in awareness that align with your new version of Self rather than archaic or unconscious ways of being.
How Therapy Can Support You
Together, we’ll uncover the decisions that no longer serve you and help you make new choices. Redecision work is a chance to take control of your story, moving beyond the limits of your Script.
If you’re ready to break free from old patterns and step into your true potential, I’m here to support you on this transformative journey.
carl@innerwarriortherapy.co.uk
07307224924
Carl Stephens Founder of Inner Warrior Therapy
