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Acceptance is a beautiful thing

30/08/2018 By Elaine Hopkins Leave a Comment

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

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