Acceptance Is Not Approval

Last week I made you a promise.

 

I said we were going deeper into what happens when a room full of people encounters the same thing and comes away in completely different worlds. Today, we start there.

 

Because the reason people experience the same event so differently, the same loss, the same betrayal, the same moment that should have broken everyone equally, often comes down to one quiet confusion that almost nobody talks about.

 

The confusion between accepting something and approving of it.

 

In Brave Awareness, I gave you the Five A’s. Acceptance is the third of them. Today, we go inside it. Because this single distinction, accepting versus approving, is the difference between a person who can move and a person who is still arguing with the past.

 

Brave Awareness is the companion podcast to the book Brave Awareness: The Practice of Being Okay Even When Life Isn’t by Ronn Pawo McLane. Available now at BraveAwareness.com

 

Written and Voiced by: Ronn Pawo McLane

Music: “Gentle Piano Atmosphere” by AudioCoffee (licensed)

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