Acceptance

There are days when emotions hit like a wave—strong, unexpected, sometimes even frightening.

You don’t see it coming.
It crashes into you.
And for a moment, it feels like you might drown.

Our instinct is to resist. To tense up. To run or push it away. But often, the more we fight the wave, the more power it seems to have.

What if instead, we softened?

Let the wave rise.
Let it pass through.
Let yourself feel what you feel—without needing to fix it.

Here’s a practice:

When a difficult feeling shows up—grief, shame, longing, fear—pause.
Sit with it like you would sit with someone you love who’s hurting.
Not to offer advice. Not to change it. Just to be with it.

Close your eyes and imagine the feeling as a wave moving through you.
You are not the wave.
You are the shore.

Let it come. Let it move. Let it go.

It might return. That’s okay.
You’ve faced it before. You can face it again.

Acceptance isn’t giving up—it’s giving in, just enough to let the moment pass through you instead of crash over you.

This is the work:
To stay.
To soften.
To trust that you can feel this and still keep going.