life to unfold as it’s going to and knowing where we can take action. Release expectations of what this moment “should” look like and instead meet it right now, as it is. Instead of saying, I shouldn’t be feeling this way! or This shouldn’t be happening! we can practice soothing the part of ourselves that’s resisting reality and say, Okay, but this is what’s happening right now. It won’t be this way forever. Now let’s see what happens next.
