Acceptance can be hard. A parent who chooses not to get help for a drinking problem. A child who succumbs to addiction. Or a spouse who suffers with terminal cancer. These are some of the challenges that people struggle with on a daily basis.

No matter how much we might want a person to save themselves or for a loved one to overcome an incurable disease, there are times in our lives when we cannot get what we want.

We need to accept what we cannot control.

I have spent so much energy, time, and my strength in trying to fix people, fight for change, and make things go my way. All in waste.

The hardest lesson that I’ve had to learn is that I cannot change someone. Not only is it not possible, but it’s also not healthy. Trying to replicate dysfunctional behavior in my own life caused me so much pain and stress.

The sooner I learned that I can only control my own life, the better things were for me.

No matter how much we might want something, that doesn’t mean that it’ll happen.

I encourage you to ask yourself this question:

What can you change in your own life?

The more that you can embrace and accept the world around you, the better.

We cannot move mountains within other people, we can only move them within ourselves.

As hard as acceptance will be, it’s critical for our recovery.

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