Acceptance (Part 3)

Acceptance (Part 3) ACCEPTANCE SURRENDER HARMONY

In this last segment of the process of ACCEPTANCE I would like to touch on the question of what it means to be confronted/challenged with the unthinkable. Even though we are well aware of heart ache and suffering in the world, we prefer to look the other way, as this happens to ‘other’ people.

A survivor of sexual abuse, especially as a child is tragically common and you may have friends or family that have gone through this. Many keep this secret of shame and suffer a lifetime of mental health challenges. Acceptance is living and embracing life despite your past.

In my opinion the greatest sorrow we can face is the loss of a child. This must literally tear a piece of your heart out of your chest and question your ability to continue breathing. Surviving is not living. In order to feel joy again, to laugh again, requires doing the work and the moving through the process of grief.

The shock of a life threatening diagnosis or the reality of a disability or the loss of a loved one especially if it is unexpected, pulls the rug from under your feet and requires mental health support.

To acknowledge that in order to move forward or through such a life reality, you will need to do ‘the work’ in order to achieve acceptance. It does not mean that we shrug it off, it means that we learn how to live alongside it. It means that we understand and accept the new version of who I have become.

This requires mastering the opposite of self-pity and victim mentality. The path to overcoming and embracing life again is ‘the work’ where part of the process requires feeling the pain instead of avoiding it, even if it may feel that you are drowning in it. I have the greatest respect and admiration for the bravery and courage it takes to allow yourself to REALLY feel, yet this is the only way forward.

The courage and bravery to stay on the path of healing, presents the gift of acceptance. Like exhaling fully for the first time.

It means we are able to embrace what life offers once again.

The next step on the road to healing: SURRENDER

Life Coaching is a practical outcome talk therapy

Neuro-Linguistics (NLP), Modern Applied Psychology and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

For more information contact: Karin Engman @ Mind Wellness 082 7246985

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Published Author: “A Path of Choices”