Radical Self-acceptance

The growth and healing process is characterised by our becoming more acquainted with ourselves, growing in self-knowledge and awareness of our inner world: "Can I lovingly accept that person that I begin to know more intimately; the 'me' that has been trying his best to lead a good life, but whose woundedness has brought about behavioural habits that, try as I will, I have not been able to eradicate by my efforts alone? Not only is there a need for an acceptance of whom I have been up until this point in my life, but also for an acceptance of what now emerges from within - aspects of myself that now become conscious to me."

The journey takes us into the unfamiliar and the unknown, the experience of dispositions and emotional states that we might have never known before. For example, we will experience a vulnerability that can bring about intense feelings for fear at times. In all this, can we begin each day renewing both our "yes" to God and to ourselves.