Sentence Stems Program for Self-Acceptance

Nathaniel Branden's recommended way of helping

I’m adding the sentence stem program as discussed in Episode #14 of the podcast. Nathaniel Branden communicates self-acceptance was always the hardest for his clients. If you wanted to do some of this work, you would be leveraging his program to help.

It’s based on a 5-week program.

Here’s what he suggests:

WEEK 1.

MORNINGS: 

Self-acceptance to me means— 

If I am more accepting of my body— 

When I deny and disown my body— 

If I am more accepting of my conflicts— 

EVENINGS: 

When I deny or disown my conflicts— 

If I am more accepting of my feelings— 

When I deny and disown my feelings— 

If I am more accepting of my thoughts— 

When I deny and disown my thoughts— 

On the weekends, read over you have written and then write six to ten endings for If any of what I have written is true, it would be helpful if I— 

Do this each weekend throughout the program. 

WEEK 2.

MORNINGS: 

If I am more accepting of my actions— 

When I deny or disown my actions— 

I am becoming aware— 

EVENINGS: 

If I am willing to be realistic about my assets and shortcomings—

 If I am more accepting of my fears— 

When I deny and disown my fears— 

WEEK 3.

MORNINGS: 

If I am more accepting of my pain— 

When I deny and disown my pain— 

If I am more accepting of my anger— 

When I deny and disown my anger— 

EVENINGS: 

If I am more accepting of my sexuality— 

When I deny and disown my sexuality— 

If I am more accepting of my excitement— 

When I deny and disown my excitement— 

WEEK 4.

MORNINGS: 

If I am more accepting of my joy— 

When I deny and disown my joy— 

If I am willing to see what I see and know what I know— 

EVENINGS: 

If I bring a high level of consciousness to my fears— 

If I bring a high level of consciousness to my pain— 

WEEK 5.

MORNINGS: 

If I bring a high level of consciousness to my anger— 

If I bring a high level of consciousness to my sexuality— 

If I bring a high level of consciousness to my excitement— 

If I bring a high level of consciousness to my joy— 

EVENINGS: 

When I think of the consequences of not accepting myself— 

If I accept the fact that what is, is, regardless of whether I admit it— 

I am beginning to see that— 

Other useful sentence stems to explore this territory can be found in How to Raise Your Self-Esteem and The Art of Self-Discovery.

I hope you find this program to be helpful!