Hello and welcome to the Being Well Podcast. Today we're going to be focusing on the topic of

acceptance which is inside of our overall strength of compassion. So to kind of frame the topic, Dad, I think that acceptance can kind of be a little bit of a, you know, a dirty word to some people because there's this idea that you're accepting bad things.

Yeah. So why is acceptance important in that framework?

Yeah, I mean acceptance in the sense of facing what's true.

You got to start by facing what's true.

Sure.

Your relationship isn't going anywhere.

You're struggling at work.

You are irritable as a person in your life.

Whatever is true, you got to start with facing was true.

So for me, it's very fundamentally.

It kind of goes to a lot of experience rock climbing

or being in wilderness where, or in business. of

going to a lot of experience rock climbing or being in wilderness where or in business. You got to know what the bottom line is.

You have to know what's actually the case.

If you're working with someone's body, if you're a physician, you got to know what's really true.

So for me, acceptance is really about seeing what's true.

It's not about acquiescing to it

and succumbing to it and giving up in the face of it. In fact, being willing to see what's true

as what it is actually helps you deal with it better. Because then you're not caught up in

wishing it was different and you're not caught up in wishing it was different and you're not caught up in trying

to make it different than what it really is, you're seeing it squarely and because you see it

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