Hi there Friend.
This week we are going to bust the first biggest myth of acceptance and give you a few key questions to help you start moving forward.
To recap, the first biggest myth of acceptance was: "Acceptance means giving up."
Friend, that couldn't be any more wrong. In fact, the opposite is true.
Acceptance means taking your power back!
Why?
Because acceptance means looking at your situation realistically and taking responsibility for your own life, health and happiness so that you can start finding out what is possible for you.
Acceptance means facing your fears and all of those big, scary "what if" stories that keep you awake at night.
Here's the truth Friend, whatever chronic illness you are living with right now, like it or not, it is a part of your reality, no matter how much you wish it wasn't.
I know what a huge, life changing thing it is.
Chronic illness brings so much loss, grief and uncertainty and it is so important Friend that you don't give up on you.
Giving up means abdicating any responsibility at all for your own life, health and happiness. It means staying helpless, passive, overwhelmed, guilty, ashamed and deep in denial.
Giving up means never trying, never hoping, never seeking help, never looking for answers and allowing yourself to become a passive, hopeless victim.
Does that really sound like you?
Even if chronic illness has knocked you down, that doesn't mean you need to stay there and if you look back over your life Friend, how many challenges have you already overcome?
Those times when you thought you wouldn't make it through, when things seemed hopeless but somehow, some way, you got there.
It was only by accepting that difficult situation that you could start to make peace with it and start working out what it was going to take to get you closer to where you wanted to be.
Acceptance is saying to yourself "Ok, this is where I am right now. What am I going to do about it? What can I try? Who can I get to help me? What support do I need?
Acceptance is an active, empowering process.
Giving up is a passive, self-victimising one.
I want you to ask yourself this question right now: "What am I most afraid will happen if I accept this illness?"
Once you have your answer, then only you know how likely it is that you would ever actually allow that to happen, without trying everything in your power to prevent it.
Acceptance is a skill and like any new skill, when you first start learning it you are going to suck. With practice and consistency, it will get so much easier over time.
So Friend, stay tuned for next weeks email where I will bust the second biggest myth of acceptance.
Got any questions?
Hit reply to this email and let me know. I promise that anything you share will be kept confidential.
Big hugs
Kerry
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