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ACCEPTANCE: (if you want to truly love yourself)

to take or sustain without protest or repining -
(repining - to feel or express dejection or discontent - to long for something)

CONCEDE: to accept as true, valid, or accurate
to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly

Synonyms: bear (with), endure, pocket, swallow, tolerate, tough (out);

Related Words: acquiesce (in), agree (to or with), assent (to), subscribe (to); respect; bow, capitulate, yield

Idioms: abide by, put up with

EXAMPLES:

For the potter: to ACCEPT a mound of raw, unworked clay and accept it's imprefection, knowing that with work, it can become a beautiful work of art

For the writer: To put words down on paper as they come to mind and accept that with work, it can be a wonderful story, poem, documentary, journal

For the painter: To have a pallet of oil or acrylic paints in globs and accept that they can become a beautiful picture. The same for an empty canvas or one that has undefinable marks on it

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Glad you think so. Gonna try to add more to it.

[SeptemberMorn]

In re-reading my post, it occurred to me that it wasn't made clear that acceptance is the first step in a long process.

You need to accept yourself just as you are, take a long, hard look at what you've got to work with, sort out the good from the not so good. Set what you know as good in cement, so to speak, and then start working on what you don't like about yourself or things that you know need improvement. Certain "faults" can be changed to positives! Don't forget that.

Mental illness does NOT define who you are. Set that in a catagory by itself but still under that which can be changed.

Then you need to figure out what cannot be changed... or maybe we need to work on accepting that before we move on. That could be one of those things that falls under the catergory of "what works best for you."

My mom always told me when I had several chores to do, to start with the most difficult one first and get it out of the way. I found that if I started with the easy ones first, I gained assurance and with that, momentum to tackle the difficult chores later. What works best for you? If you don't know, try one method first and if it's a no go, try the other.

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