In some senses, accepting things about yourself and your situation will be liberating. If you can accept all of yourself – including the bits that you may not like very much – then you will be in a much better position to show forgiveness towards yourself. Accepting yourself is a bit like being able to see the good and bad in friends only, in this case, within yourself. This is freeing because it means being able to form a friendship yourself, warts and all, accepting the parts of you which, in some cases, you may have been more inclined to ignore for years. In other words, if you want to free yourself from self-criticism and even self-loathing, then self-acceptance is a good place to start.
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