Understanding Acceptance
I used to think living in acceptance meant condoning hurtful behavior or situations. I thought acceptance meant expecting little out of life, that it was a passive action – I thought acceptance meant defeat. However, something I’ve learned at South Orange County Detox & Treatment is that my definition of acceptance was wrong. In reality, acceptance releases the power my life circumstances had over me.
Codependent Patterns
Most of my relationships have been based around codependency and I am realizing that I need to break this pattern because it doesn’t give me or the other person the freedom to be ourselves, and truly love and accept one another without having any sort of strings attached.
The Biggest Disappointment
We’ve all heard the phrase, “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed”, but what feeling is disappointment mainly comprised of? And under what conditions are the seeds of disappointment sewn? When I try to make sense of disappointment and boil away the irrational secondary emotions, I find that the underlying emotion is sadness.