Day 19: Radical Acceptance:
Radical Acceptance is accepting those issues in our lives that we just don’t feel fully ready to accept. Maybe someone is ill. Maybe a relationship isn’t working out as we had hoped and planned. It’s as if we think that somehow, magically, by not acknowledging the situation, then it either doesn’t exist or will go away.
By denying the truth and not accepting the reality for what it truly is, we stay stuck in the situation and are unable to find solutions or to move on.
Radical Acceptance involves the acknowledgement of the following three things:
- Reality is what it is
- Everything has a cause
- Life can be worth living even when there’s pain
(Dr. Marsha Linehan, From Chaos to Freedom video series)
Identify at least one issue in your life that you are not facing head on. Realize how denying the reality of what is at hand prevents you from experiencing your life in the here and now? Take slow steady steps on either resolving the issue, or accepting the facts. This way, you can release the underlying emotions and move on.
Source(s):
Stop Sabotaging: A 31 Day DBT Challenge to Change Your Life
by Debbie Corso