Radical acceptance means that you look upon yourself, others, and the world in an entirely new way. 

You must be willing to let go of your ideas about how the world “should be” and simply accept things the way that they are in the present moment. When you radically accept something, you are completely releasing judgment of it and avoiding any attempts to fight against or change it. 

When you are able accept a painful reality, your thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and attitude all shift to make room for you to fully experience your present reality. This shift creates the opportunity and ability for change. 

As Carl Rogers once said, 'The curious paradox is when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.'

To practice radical acceptance, we need to:

1. Accept what is ☀️ 
2. Realize what we can control and what we can't
3. Look at our situation from a nonjudgmental perspective 👓 
4. Acknowledge the facts of our situation 📚 
5. Learn how to live in the present moment despite our pain

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Let’s talk anxiety. I believe anxiety in part comes from our attachment to believing everything we think is true. Just because a thought feels true doesn’t make it true.

The average person thinks between 50,000-70,000 thoughts per day. In the moment, our thinking seems logical, but when we start looking more critically at the content of our thoughts, we notice thinking errors- therapists call these cognitive distortions. We tend to believe many of our thoughts- but we are not our thoughts.

I love this idea: “You are the consciousness (the ocean) from which your thoughts (the waves) arise.”

Here’s your goal:

1) Be the observer. Listen to your thoughts without judgement! Practice mindfulness.

2) Train your brain. Say goodbye to thoughts your don’t like. Decrease your attachment that your feelings are true! 

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