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Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker dives into the topic of self acceptance (and self compassion, self respect, and self love… all the selves). Jonathan shares his struggles with self acceptance growing up in the ‘80s as a nerd, being bullied, and feeling like he didn’t belong. He talks about how he learned to accept himself and how he found the right group of people to be around. But it’s a long journey to self acceptance, and it’s something we always work on.

TW: bullying

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Anonymous

I'm sorry, did you read my diary from growing up? I has a very similar experience, except it was the early 2000s Thank you so much for sharing your story with us! It means the world to so many to know that they are not alone! You have truly created a safe space for so many people to do a lot of healing, growing, and learning and I am forever grateful to you for that fact!

Anonymous

Well you just summed up my whole childhood, just sprinkle in some incredibly toxic family dynamics where you come out with some massive toxic-perfectionism tendencies because your learned trauma responses was that being beyond criticism was both the best “self-respect” armor against other people’s/your own loathing of you and the best way to keep the people you lived with from taking our their frustrations on you . 😬 I was lucky enough to finally find my “freaks and geeks” around when I was 15, which is what finally pulled me out of years of secret suicidal ideation, but holy shit am I still surprised by how difficult it is to exercise self-compassion, so thank you for sharing and for always being willing to walk the walk. Your transparency and vulnerability is a beautiful thing to experience. 💕