Core term · Albert Ellis

Unconditional Self-Acceptance

The choice to value yourself as a whole person regardless of your flaws or failures, rather than rating your worth by your performance.

Areas of life
Self-worthresilience

Why it matters

Reduces shame and defensiveness.

How to handle it

Judge actions, not your whole worth as a person.

Who shaped this idea

The thinker behind it

From concept to practice

Turn Unconditional Self-Acceptance into a question you can answer.

Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.