The phrase "affecting ourselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact of actions or decisions on one's own well-being or state of being.
Example: "The choices we make can have a significant impact, often affecting ourselves more than we realize."
Alternatives: "impacting ourselves" or "influencing ourselves".
But that is only so as long as we choose to be responsible with our own drinking habits, preventing our own alcohol consumption from affecting ourselves or others.
This is not the forum to discuss the morality of any of this, rather to point out that the more we air the dirty laundry of others and make it a public event, the more we must realize that we are impacting our society, and perhaps by subjecting such events to such public attention, adversely affecting ourselves.
Perhaps our genes affect our environments, which in turn affect ourselves.
Nonetheless, through our initiatives we do make history and affect ourselves in the process of doing so.
We care about our feelings and how our feelings affect ourselves and those we care about.
Are we able to see those acts that, if left undone, would negatively affect ourselves and those around us?
Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world".
No one elected Paul Allen or Bill Gates or Warren Buffett to any kind of office so why should we who treasure democracy allow those with so much cash and thus power, decide what affects ourselves, our country and so much of the world?
Every day, we are choice makers who can enhance sustainable happiness in the world by being aware of how our choices affect ourselves, other people and the environment - and then making choices that are beneficial.
Now, reaching out to men does not mean that we are not capable of affecting change ourselves.
There's something about writing, when we regard ourselves as writers, that affects how we think and, inevitably, how we express ourselves.
