

Accept your pain
Accept your pain: It’s radical but it’s the only way through. If you are like most of my clients accepting your pain sounds like the definition of insanity. They say, “accept my pain? I’ll never get better.” Recent evidence-based practices like mindfulness and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) suggest that turning toward the pain may just be the best way through. “So if I accept, turn toward my pain. It gets better?”. Yes. One of the great axioms in Buddhist philosop