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Are you on the side of accepting and embracing who you are now or are you craving more change? Do you think change is always a good thing? Join me for a discussion about acceptance and change to see which side you land on. I hope to give you a new perspective to help you live your best life!
I've written many articles about acceptance and how being willing to feel your emotions can be very helpful. But if you've watched a lot of my videos, you also know that I do a ton of videos about growth, hope, change, and reducing anxiety.
So it's fair that I'm often asked how to reconcile this idea of acceptance and change, for example this question from a student: "I'm a little confused about how to do exercises to regulate the nervous system s 'written in the previous section where we were encouraged to be willing to "feel" emotions. These exercises somehow resemble an attempt to get rid of negative emotions.
This is a great question and I think it's a very important question to consider carefully. I think it's very easy to get lost when it comes to how to manage your emotions. Because it seems like such a paradox, to resolve emotions you have to be willing to accept that they don't resolve.
In order to change how you feel, you have to stop trying to change how you feel. I can see how this is confusing. I'll do my best to clarify things. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, aka ACT, truly walks the fine line of balancing acceptance and change.
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In therapy, I use a combination of acceptance and commitment therapy, systems theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treat mental illness and other challenges we all face. faced in life. The ideas in my videos are frequently adapted from several sources. Many of these come from acceptance and commitment therapy, particularly the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection stem from the work of Stephen Porges (polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (somatic experiencing), Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger Institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose the direction of our lives.
And deeper than all of this, the gospel of Jesus Christ guides my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe
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