Accepting is NOT defeat, it’s adding layers of intimacy with the universe or higher power and getting more acquainted with them.
-Kyle Higgins, Mental Health Counselor
Does acceptance of something that didn’t go your way a form of defeat?
This is something my counselor and I recently talked about in a grueling session. For new readers that may not know, I have clinical depression and have been seeing a counselor years.
FINALITY OR ENDINGS CAN BE MOST DIFFICULT. KNOWING WHEN IT IS TIME TO END SOMETHING CAUSING US MORE GREIF THAN GOOD, LEAVES MUCH SADNESS BUT OPENS DOORS TO NEW BEGINNINGS.
Accepting is NOT defeat, it’s adding layers of intimacy with the universe or higher power and getting more acquainted with them. -Kyle Higgins, Mental Health Counselor Does acceptance of something that didn’t go your way a form of defeat? This is something my counselor and I recently talked about in a grueling session. For new … Read more
SOMETIMES, WE HAVE TO SURRENDER. WE SIMPLY LOSE CONTROL SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY. WE fight against some things in life and it is a battle. We continue to try any option available creatively or otherwise, and end up with the same results we had before we tried to change something. The power of surrender even … Read more
What is realism? It is simply put, according to the Webster Dictionary, accepting a situation as it is and making the best of it. How often do you see realism in today’s world? People try to protect their emotions, and they are not open about them. We live in a world of obscurity where everyone … Read more
“Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.”
-Steve Maraboli
There was an article I wrote for this site a few months back on acceptance and the aftermath of going through bad situations in life. I am posting parts of that article again but first, I feel the need to add something crucial to it that has more or less donned on me in the last month or so.
Sometimes in life, we find ourselves grieving. Grieving is a part of life along with loss. When we lose someone we love, especially when they are suffering, we feel a mixture of emotions. Part of us wants to see our loved one out of pain prior to death. There is another part of us that … Read more
LIFE IS FULL OF THINGS WE EXERCISE TOLERANCE WITH. IT COULD BE THAT WE ACCEPT TOO MUCH OF WHAT ISN’T NORMAL, OR WE DEVELOP SELF-TOLERANCE. WE WILL TALK ABOUT BOTH THINGS. FIRST, LET’S TALK ABOUT SELF-TOLERANCE TO SUBSTANCES. BEFORE WE DO, HOWEVER, LET’S FIRST LOOK AT OUR MEANING OF TOLERANCE FROM THE WEBSTER DICTIONARY … Read more
“Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.”
-Steve Maraboli
FOR MOST QUESTIONS WE HAVE, THERE ARE ANSWERS. SOMETIMES, WE ASK QUESTIONS AND GET AN ANSWER THAT REALLY DOESN’T ADDRESS OUR ORIGINAL QUESTION. THIS POST WILL BE ABOUT GETTING THE RIGHT ANSWERS TO PARTICULAR QUESTIONS. IT WILL ALSO ADDRESS ACCEPTANCE WHEN THERE ISN’T AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION YOU HAVE AND HOW TO ACCEPT THIS … Read more