Radical Acceptance is a practice of knowing you want something, you don’t/can’t have it and that is not the end of the world.

We can accept the present, the past and this allows us to change the future.

Radical Acceptance does not mean we approve of the reality. It is knowing that we cannot change it.

We will still have feelings about whatever is happening, and need to feel them, care for ourselves and stop fighting what we cannot change.

Some examples:

• We need to acknowledge there are genocides currently happening in our world to protest against their funders.

• We need to accept that people use substances to provide safer supplies and decrease harm.

  We can be radical and work to change the world, after accepting what is.

Sources:

How She Learned Radical Acceptance | MARSHA LINEHAN Borderliner Notes https://youtu.be/OTG7YEWkJFI?si=RqjdP-bSMETxb8VR

Nadine Groves – CTRI DBT Workshop