S3E3: How Can I Better Accept My Chronic Illness? - listener write-in
When you believe you accept your situation, when you believe you accept your chronic illness, but something doesn't quite click with it all, where do you go from there and what can you do to move the needle more towards acceptance?
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Episode highlights:
What does acceptance mean to you? Acceptance doesn’t have to mean any one thing, but I do think that whatever your definition, it needs to allow you to feel free, held and supported.
Acceptance needs to be somatically assimilated as well as cognitively understood. To understand where you’re at with this, connect with yourself and your body and ask the questions.
Is your acceptance selective? And in contrast, is your rejection, or non-acceptance, selective? You can’t select what you reject.
What you need to work on is the belief that you get to feel better now, with your chronic illness as it is. Not on the other side of anything, not then or when.
What does ‘better’ actually mean to you/anyone listening? What would it look like in your life? Looking at your expectations of ‘better’ or ‘amazing’, can that include being able to stay with yourself - i.e. not abandon yourself - throughout all that comes your way in life.
How can you invite that full variety of feelings into your lived experience and not segment them into ‘bad’ or ‘good’ camps, but see them all as equally valid?
Life gets to be rich in many ways; not just in the ones you already know, or see as being the ‘typical human experience’.