🧵One of the most powerful developments of my life during my journey with #OCD has been "acceptance" but this process will benefit you in any circumstance. I'm sharing an acrostic I wrote about it. I hope it helps you, whatever your situation. @CIBScenter #LongCovid @WesElyMD
A – Acknowledge that your situation may never meaningfully change even though you might desperately want it to
C – Cut ties with a highly idealized view of the past that makes your current situation seem dire and unacceptable by comparison.
C – Cultivate an expansive and flexible view of the world and a view of yourself that allows for the presence of difficult and unwanted things.
E – Embrace things as they are – not as you want them to be.
P – Pray for the Holy Spirit to give you grace as you work to learn how to treat yourself with kindness.
T – Try to remember that the struggles that you feel are often temporary and time-limited – that though they seem terrifying and real in the moment, they are usually fleeting if you can choose not to overly attend to them and give them power.
A – As you are able, choose to be vulnerable with others – as people embrace you in all of your glorious “mess,” you will learn to embrace yourself as well.
N – Normalize your struggles.
C – Create a vision for a rich life that can co-exist with difficulties of various kinds, reminding yourself that your life can be full right now – that having a life of wholeness and satisfaction is not contingent on the absences of challenges.
E – Explore the world around you and realize that you are not alone in your struggles – that there are people you love and respect and aspire to be like who are suffering too.
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