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I'll be honest, I can't say that awareness of my weaknesses has in any way made it easier to love myself. If anything, the constant gnawing awareness of the many qualities I lack makes it harder.

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You’re at least further along than people who aren’t aware of their weaknesses.

Interestingly enough, once I started forgiving myself for my flaws, a significant portion of them went away.

Is this a Kierkegaardian "the only way out is through" sort of situation then?

Something like that. I wrote up my process in another comment on this thread if you’re interested.

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