Weekly Blog by Evelyn Polk Green

May 12, 2008…There is Strength in Acceptance.
ADDA Board Member Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA, is featured this month on the ADDA blog post.

As a psychologist, most of my clients come to me to do better in their life: make their relationship more satisfying, perform better at work, manage their time better, etc. I do the best that I can to help them make those positive changes. Very rarely does someone come in and say that they want to work on accepting what already is. Not change it, just accept it. Sure, it happens sometimes, like when someone knows that an ex- isn’t coming back but they’re having trouble letting it go. Mostly though, clients come in to change things, not change how they feel about those things. I suppose it’s the American way—bigger, faster, better.
I had the pleasure recently of seeing Dan Gottlieb, PhD do a reading and book signing for his newest book, Learning from the Heart. As I listened to Dan talk about the importance of acceptance, I came to an interesting realization.

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