No, “forgiving ourselves” will not fix the brokenness. Absolution must come from somewhere else. It must come from the one we have wronged, the greater One, the One responsible for the Law-over-everything-and-everyone that we have broken. We are not beholden merely to a regulation but to the Person behind the regulation—our rightful Sovereign, God. Forgiveness must come from him, since he is the One we have sinned against.
