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From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Self-acceptance
Message-ID: <5367@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-May-85 13:19:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 13:19:48 1985
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>>Just the suggestion "Like yourself" won't do it for you, I'm sure:
>>you need a *reason* to gain your own approval.  That makes things much
>>more difficult.
>>
>>			Jeff Brown the Scumbag

I detect a very basic level of non-acceptance of your self.  We are 
not born as lumps of mud that we have to mold into something acceptable.
We are born as lovable, capable individuals who have not always been
supported for being that way.  As long as you think you "need a *reason*
to gain your own approval"  you will remain unsatisfied because you 
will never perceive that you are quite good enough.  Don't look for the
reasons to like yourself.  Look for the reasons that you think you are
a scumbag; check them out to see if 1) it really is true about you, and
2) it really makes you feel like a scumbag.  And then take positive,
loving, disciplined steps to change those attributes.

Moira Mallison
tektronix!moiram