“Personal growth can be summed up as willingness to suffer genuine self-analysis, making the unconscious conscious, and intentionally acting as though the best (Christlike) version of you is the inevitable reward for the effort!” -Brett Watson
This video is an excellent look at the value of what is known in Jungian circles as “shadow work”. In Christian terms it is the inward process of “living by the truth and coming into the light” (John 3:19-21) and/or “working out our salvation with fear and trembling (Php. 2:12).