Self-Acceptance

I have had a few conversations this morning that inspired me to write this piece. All of those conversations led me back to self-acceptance. I don’t think most people realize how critical self-acceptance is to feeling truly accepted by others. I mean authentically accepted. Of course, self-awareness has to come first, but if you enjoy my work you’re likely quite self-aware already.

Many of us chase that acceptance most of our lives, only to never feel it. This is because we are taught not to be ourselves. We morph into whoever we think the other person or people around us want us to be. That external validation feeds many of our choices. In the end, we’re never satisfied.

How could we be? It’s not the authentic, very human part of us that is being accepted. I am not anti-love. I am never going to be anti-relationship. I am very much create a self-aware relationship with yourself first, however. That begins with self-acceptance.

Your inner child has never felt accepted by others. That child is wounded and afraid, and until you reparent them old ways, self-sabotage, toxic relationships, addictions, and more will follow you. That inner child is responsible for the walls and anxiety you walk through life with.

The reason you have them is from previous judgements in your life from people who claimed to love you. You have to spend some time with…