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Radical acceptance

why me

Radical acceptance is acknowledging reality as it is, without approving of it. It is not resignation: refusing to accept a situation keeps energy locked in protest, whereas accepting it frees that energy for whatever action is actually available.

What to do about it

Say what is true out loud without adding should. Then decide what to do about it.

Books that work on this

Each is a 90-day programme. Start with the first — later books assume the work in the earlier ones.

The Warrior Blueprint — book 1 of the Warrior seriesThe Warrior Blueprint$6.99Absorb The Blow — book 2 of the Warrior seriesAbsorb The Blow$6.99Grief Is Job — book 3 of the Warrior seriesGrief Is Job$6.99Rejected Rebuild Manual — book 4 of the Warrior seriesRejected Rebuild Manual$6.99Betrayal Math — book 5 of the Warrior seriesBetrayal Math$6.99Mental Armor — book 6 of the Warrior seriesMental Armor$6.99Train The Fear — book 7 of the Warrior seriesTrain The Fear$6.99Forge The Armor — book 8 of the Warrior seriesForge The Armor$6.99

Part of the Warrior series.

How people say it

Nobody looks this up by its clinical name. These are the ways it actually gets said.

  • I cannot accept what happened
  • it is not fair
  • why me
  • how to accept something terrible
  • stuck fighting reality
  • I keep wishing it were different
  • letting go of what I cannot change

Written by Brian Spiker, who has run Spiker Carpet and Tile Care since 2013 — the receipts. More terms in the encyclopedia.

About the author

Brian Spiker has run Spiker Carpet and Tile Care since 2013 — a real service business with real customers, real Google reviews, and 13 years of work most self-help authors will never do.

He writes the way operators talk: brutal, funny, and built from work that actually has to get done. Verify everything at spikercarpetandtilecare.com.

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