a. Self-Acceptance: Bringing into awareness rejected parts of our self will probably cause a lot of anxiety and guilt. Hence, there is a tendency to repress, i.e. push into the subconscious, those aspects of the self that are seen and felt as bad. Self-knowledge that is not accompanied by self-acceptance may thus be destructive instead of growth-producing. Two factors are crucial to the process of self acceptance: 1) the presence of an accepting other whose non-judgmental attitude offers confirmation that all that is human in ourselves is basically good, and that even the mistakes can be turned into good; 2) a basic belief in the goodness of God's creation. "God saw all that he created and found it very good" (Gen 1:31)