Radical Acceptance

What is Radical Acceptance?

• RADICAL ACCEPTANCE is the skill of accepting the things you can’t change.

• RADICAL = complete and total accepting in mind, heart, and body.

• ACCEPTANCE = seeing reality for what it is, even if you don’t like it.

• ACCEPTANCE can mean to acknowledge, recognize, endure, not give up or give in.

• It’s when you stop fighting reality, and let go of bitterness. It is the opposite of “Why me?” It is “Things are as they are.”

• Life can be worth living, even with painful events in it.

Reference: From DBT® Skills Manual for Adolescents, by Jill H. Rathus and Alec L. Miller. Copyright 2015 by The Guilford Press.