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My greatest passion professional as well as personally is based on Self Acceptance and Understanding.  I learned Self Acceptance Training from its founder, Dick Olney, many years ago over the course of countless hours of group learning and personal healing.  As my own work as therapist matured I added the “Understanding” to Olney’s basic teaching because I discovered that the more I understood myself the easier it was to accept myself.  In simplest terms Self Acceptance and Understanding equates with being friends with ourselves. As I teach it, it is learning how to be our own best ally.

Self Acceptance is a both a self moniting and mentoring process by which we re-learn the goodness of who we are while reconciling our limitations.   Frequently people come in to my office with the age old complaint of “I just don’t know who I am anymore…I can’t account for where my life has gone and how I got so for off track of where I knew I wanted to.”  Self Acceptance and Understanding gives us the tools to revisit our passion and goals by extensively reviewing our history; examining the basics of our personality; and then practice the disciplines necessary for focus and integration of our whole person.

Of course, sometimes we have to rummage through the garbage heap to reclaim certain parts of us that have seemingly been lost.   Such a process, as in gardening, might involve pulling out a few weeds and deadheading spent blossoms in order to refresh our perspective and rejuvenate our natural abilities.  But after the compost cooks a while, we can always find the nurturance to re-bloom because we are all capable of being who we really want to be and doing what we want to do.

In a word, Self Acceptance and Understanding is a rich form of “coming back” to ourselves.