Acceptance

[Nighthawk]

I have come to find that there is so much on needs to accept in order to move forward. I have to contuialy remind myself that accepting something does not mean I like it or agree with it. I was not sure what to post or were to post so I came up with this as an idea. Either you can mark something you have accepted or something you are working on accepting.

Recently I found out that I need a knee replacement and two hip replacements. I need to work on accepting that my mobilty will not be what I want it to be. I also need to challange myself to either accept living in pain or I need to overcome mass amounts of fear due to faied surgeries. :cry:

I hope others will participate.

I accept that my mother is a narsasist and that I can't change her.

 

[Kefira]

I have accepted that I will not live up to the expectations of the people in the town in which I grew up- being the perfect student, then finding the perfect husband and having the perfect family in a perfect suburb and never doing anything particularly worthy of criticism. More so I have managed to reject these expectations as not authentic for me.

I am working to accept that while I am so blessed to be going through the process of getting a service dog, he will also raise the visibility of my disorder. I've spent so long wasting energy on actively hiding the fact that I'm not 'normal' and that I struggle. He will let me be more transparent, but I'm accepting that he flags me as different and will increase the number of interactions I have to have with people (many of which will be negative or at least uncomfortable from the experience so far).

I accept/am accepting that my parents and I will never have the sort of relationship that I wanted. I accept that I have the ability now, as an adult, to influence how the relationship forms for the rest of the time we have together and to set healthy boundaries without feeling guilt.

I have accepted that I live with chronic pain and with PTSD symptoms and therefore my expectations of myself sometimes need to be reevaluated.

I accept that my living situation for the past year has been unstable and has not been ideal. I am working on making positive changes and on forgiveness for how long it has taken.

I am working on accepting help without hating myself for needing it. I am coming to understand that even if it's difficult for me to trust others, I truly cannot do this all on my own.

 

[PlainJane]

I accept that I will not achieve my previous goals, or accomplish many of the things I had hoped to. That I can make new goals to move me in a positive direction.

I accept that I will never have the love expected of one's parents. That society will continue to see me as damaged and in worthy. I can surround myself with those who appreciate the good and the bad parts of me. More so than I ever could.

That's all I have but I'll keep working

 

[Recovery4Me]

I have finally accepted I will not cure my PTSD but I can live without shame for having it.

 

[Ronin]

I accept I didn't fail as a parent. God just wanted to parent them more.

 

[BlueOrange]

I decided to accept that there are some things that I'm just never going to accept. Doing that really helped me to accept myself as a person.

But I'm reconsidering some of the things that I thought I would never accept. My latest thought is that accepting something doesn't require me to give up on changing it - it just means that I recognize that I'll survive if I don't get the change that I want.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I love this thread NH.

I love being able to accept things as they are but what a struggle and a battle to get there.

I accept that my daughter is in deep denial of reality and she is now released to live her life the way she wants.

 

[Tanishq]

I accept that there are better things in life, I need not to get stuck with one and then bring down my life.

 

[Anrish]

I accept that I will never be a people's person.

I accept that I will never be able to accept a partner weaker than me.

I accept that I will never be a lovely woman - I'm a fighter.

I accept that my ex was able to use me and manipulate me.

 

[Recovery4Me]

I accept I am perfectly imperfect.

I accept that I have and will continue to make mistakes, however, I wish to learn from them.

 

[Deleted member 19804]

Great thread!

I am working on accepting that I cannot fix my father's depression; it is up to him to do the work and ask for help when he needs it.

I have accepted that it will take me a little longer to fulfill my ambitions than it would have without PTSD

 

[Tanishq]

I accept the positive things which come/enter in my life, they might not be the way I wanted but I think they will be the way I need muchly.