"You will suffer less if you accept the situation as it is."
Published 5 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader -
A Thought That Changed My Life
Three years ago, I had a thought that changed my life.
At the time, I was at a peak of desperation, desperately wanting my circumstances to change.
Things in my personal life felt completely out of control. Someone I loved was struggling in ways I just wanted so badly to “fix” inside of them… yet I couldn’t. And the challenge felt unending. I was really losing hope that it would ever resolve for the better.
While walking out in nature one day, a voice came into my mind and said,
"Brooke. You will suffer less if you accept the situation as it is."
That thought felt both dramatically true and completely impossible at the same time.
But Won’t Acceptance Mean I’ve Given Up?
What? You want me to just accept this situation?
But won’t that mean I’ve given up hope for change?
Won’t that lead me to become apathetic?
Those fears revealed how much I believed my resistance was helping me.
But was it really helping? Had it done anything for me at all?
No.
And as it’s been said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
The resistance wasn’t helping. It was hurting.
So… How Do You Accept the Unacceptable?
The idea that I needed to accept the situation felt preposterous… and yet I knew deep down it was exactly what I needed to do. The problem was, I didn’t know how.
How do I accept that which feels so hard to accept?
How do I accept that which I don’t want to accept at all?
That’s when I remembered a book I had purchased long ago but never read: Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach.
It had been quietly waiting for me, and this was one of those moments of divine synchronicity, guiding me to exactly what I needed.
A Practice I Still Return To
This book became a turning point. It helped me change my life in simple yet profound ways—practices I still return to today.
And now, it’s been three years.
So much is different, and so much is the same…
Life is the same in that I’m still human and still come up against things I want to fix or control or judge.
Life is different in that I now have a process for how to let go of that resistance—and find acceptance.
Acceptance grounds me in peace, allowing me to live and act from a completely different energy.
It literally changes everything.
Come Practice with Me – September 18
If you’re longing for your own experience of Radical Acceptance, join me on
Thursday, September 18, from 6:30–8:30 PM
for a Creation Circle + Breathwork session devoted to this very practice.
If you show up fully, I promise you’ll walk away with more peace, clarity, and spaciousness around whatever you're currently resisting.
Come—let me support you in practicing this together, dear one. 🙂
This much I can say… that voice was right:
You will suffer less if you can accept things as they are.
You Are Deeply Loved
Delightfully,
brooke
P.S. Can’t make it live? No worries—I’ll send out a replay that’s available for 21 days. That said, I so hope you’ll prioritize coming live so I can interact and engage with you personally. I’d love to connect.