How to be forgiving

Forgive yourself for not knowing better at the time. Forgiveyourself for giving away your power. Forgive yourself for the survival patterns and traits you picked up while enduring trauma. Forgive yourself for being who you needed to be. - Audrey Kitching

What if I offered you more freedom, more independence, more kindness, less fear of failure, improved mental health, a more positive mindset and an increased sense of self-worth? Would you take it? What if I said, all of this is available to you but the path to this involves self-acceptance? Self-acceptance of the kind where you embrace everything about yourself, all your good bits and your not-so-good bits and be ok with it all. Would you be able to do it?