In Brief:
I am employed at the local Detox Center. Self acceptance is a willingness to admit our sorrows, our failings and our defeats, but also being positively willing to look at what our good points are and the good things our lives generate. In Jesus? parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 we find the Prodigal in a desperate situation. 17 ? 20 reveals the poignant moment when he accepts himself and comes home to his father, ?warts and all. But when He still a great way off his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on His neck and kissed him? The Lord Jesus brought the Prodigal back to the place of self acceptance. According to L.A. Shepherd in His 1979 Self-Acceptance ???Self Acceptance has been defined formally in terms of positive and negative self concepts. Shepherd says ?Self acceptance involves self understanding, a realistic, albeit subjective awareness of one?s strengths and weaknesses.
