The phrase "acknowledged herself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone recognizing or accepting their own feelings, actions, or identity.
Example: "After much reflection, she finally acknowledged herself as a strong and capable individual."
Alternatives: "recognized her own worth" or "accepted herself."
It shows her in the face of tragedy behaving like the data-driven A-student type she acknowledges herself to be: seeking out the supporting studies and statistics that show how best she might serve her kids in order for them survive, and even thrive, in the context of their mutilated family unit.
"It's something that she didn't even want to acknowledge herself.
Upon realizing that Homer has come into some money by betting against her in the tournament, Lisa gets angry at him and refuses to acknowledge herself as Homer's daughter, even going so far as to take Marge's maiden name and start calling herself "Lisa Bouvier".
When my sister got on the phone, I told her how incredible it was that my niece could really celebrate and acknowledge herself, at an age when young girls often begin to dim their light to be accepted and not perceived as "conceited".
It's his stating what she has already acknowledged to herself, what she was considering acknowledging to him, that definitively tips the scales the wrong way.
Ms. Warren has acknowledged listing herself as a minority in a national directory of law professors in the 1980s and '90s, citing family stories about American Indian ancestors and saying she had done it to "meet more people who had grown up like I had grown up".
In the past, she has acknowledged cutting herself.
Ann Huckstep was in her 40s before she acknowledged to herself that she was gay.
Page, who portrayed Kitty Pryde in the 2006 X-Men movie, said she had not yet acknowledged to herself that she was gay when Ratner made the comment.
Finally, she mustered the wherewithal to acknowledge to herself that she was trans.
