Self Acceptance
We all have things about ourselves that we secretly wish we could get rid of. I know from first hand experience that their are things about myself that I do not particularly like. For example, I am what my husband loves to refer to as "labile." One minute I am on top of the world and the next I am down in the dumps. Many years ago the way it looked was I would get things moving in a favorable direction for me and then something would happen. Some major emotional thing would surface or a pet would die or I'd fail a test at school or something. From that point forward my life was a mess. I couldn't function at home, school or with my friends. When I got upset about something it was like the world was going to end. I suspect that a lot of people didn't know how to handle this about me so they just stayed away. I'm am quite sure my parents must have braced for the worse when these times surfaced in my life. For me,...