Hi Reader,

Acceptance?

Absolutely not.

For a long time, acceptance sounded suspiciously like giving up to me.

Accept what happened?

Accept what they did?

Accept that I don't know what's going to happen?

No, thank you.

Surely there was something else I could do.

Another angle.

Another conversation.

Another thing I hadn't tried yet.

Because as long as there was something left to try...

there was still the possibility that maybe I could change it.

What I didn't understand was that acceptance wasn't asking me to give up.

It was asking me to stop fighting reality long enough to see where I still had a choice.

And THAT is a very different thing.

This week's article is about what acceptance actually means—and what it absolutely doesn't.

There's also a woman named Jane and an unfortunate amount of onions involved.

Don't say I didn't warn you...

→ Read: Acceptance Isn't Giving Up​

Keep it brash.

Keep it true to you.

Because you matter.

Lisa

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