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@caroleeuits- Good morning and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. You are a brave lady who has also learned how to make the most of your incredible journey. You are correct in distinguishing between acceptance and appreciation for oneself. Appreciation happens before acceptance because you have to know who you are (knowing your full worth, good and bad) before you can accept it! Boy was this a tough one for me. Self-worth is placing a value on yourself- are you a good person? Are you a bad person? Self-esteem is based on comparing yourself to others, do you feel inferior or superior. These are all factors that we need to include in our maturing years of hopefully accepting ourselves. Through all of my years, I have learned that this is my journey and I can continue in self-loathing and depression and anger or have a hell of a time with myself. What gifts have come about after your traumatic brain injury?
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To me, the gifts come, first because God gave them to me/us -usually without my awareness. I sorta of discover they are present when I reflect at how I did something that got me through the "crisis" - something "beyond me" that unfolds. I may have read that something might work ( like how to handle stress" info etc.) But in those "Truck Coming FAST-Just Hit Me" moments, yes reading an practicing what I learned helps alot - but putting it together right in a crisis, or in looking at lifelong patterns all lie in core parental exampe and teaching, and that "walk with God" (as you understand God) sets the tone. The gumption i have in large measure is that I know from God that I am no junk and with God, everything is possible, however hard it is. And so, even with TBI, watch out world- I make differences happen -for/in myself, and for/with other people.