Every life-changing experience, be it illness, the loss of a job or a friendship, or the death of a loved one, can be excruciating. And what makes it even more difficult is that many other people might fail to understand how challenging our adjustment to 'normalcy' might be. Because there is no 'normal' in these experiences. How can there be?
People assume that 'acceptance' means being OK with what happened in the past or with how things currently are. But there is a difference between acceptance and 'feeling good' about what happened - acceptance means allowing yourself to feel whatever emotions naturally come up in response to what you are going through. It means acknowledging the reality of the pain, even though in an ideal world, it shouldn't be this way.
This therapeutic and comforting self-help guide will help you to:
· Give yourself the permission to grieve or process events in the way that makes sense to you
· Fully experience and accept your feelings of anger, grief, frustration or anxiety
· Own your truth, even if it makes others uncomfortable
And with this kind of an acceptance, there can be healing.
Janina Scarlet is a licensed clinical psychologist and the award-wining author of Superhero Therapy as well as Therapy Quest, Super-Women, Super Survivors, Dark Agents, and SuperKids. Her pioneering work and has been featured on the BBC, CBS, MTV News, CW, Huffington Post and others. She is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award by the United Nations Association for her work on Superhero Therapy.
