>>> self-acceptance also involves being willing to recognize, retrieve and make peace with parts of the self that till now may have been abandoned, shunned, or repudiated. I'm referring here to our illicit or anti-social impulses--our shadow self, which, though it may have confused, frightened, or even sabotaged us in the past, still represents an essential part of our nature and must be fully integrated if we are to become whole. As long as we refuse to accept-or in some way accommodate-these split-off aspects of self, unconditional self-acceptance will remain forever out of reach.
Byz, with affection, I have to disagree with this article.
Certainly, there are often things about others one does not like, can't (and often, shouldn't) accept; but there is nothing about oneself that is to be unlikeable, unacceptable.
to this author I would say, this is patently bogus.