Acceptance

I know several people who are currently struggling to accept aspects of reality that don’t align with 1. who they believed they would be, 2. how they believed they would feel, or 3. what they believed the world would look like at this moment in time.

When the facts on the ground don’t align with our preferences (and assumptions with where they would end up), that can be difficult to bear.

But if we refuse to work these data points and (at times, truly uncomfortable) truths into our mental ...