Tag: Expectations

Self-Acceptance

Self-Acceptance is not “love your garbage.” “Self-acceptance” is considered to be one of the most important attitudes you can bring to any personal-development work.  However, “self-acceptance,” as it is used in the generally accepted world view is nothing more than a stop-gap strategy for dealing with our belief that we are, in fact, broken. “Self-acceptance,” as I…


Self-acceptance means accepting that I am human and having reasonable expectations.

When I say “self-acceptance,” I mean to acknowledge that I am human and an acceptance of what it means to be human.  This many sound silly, but very few people want to be human – they want to be better than human – they have an expectation of being human that is unrealistic. If I…