Acceptance and I are new acquaintances. For many years, I couldn’t see its beauty. I thought it equalled resignation: sitting on the couch, hunched into my shoulders, and slowly shaking my head in a sad, Eeyore-type way. But acceptance is an active and dynamic force. It precedes and provokes change. For many years, I’ve been familiar with psychologist Carl Rogers’s contention that: ‘When I accept myself as I am, then I can change’. But I still found self-acceptance tough. In a … [Read more...] about Acceptance is a beautiful thing