Cowritten by Zamfira Parincu and Tchiki Davis. There is a famous saying that “Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.” It suggests that pain is an inevitable part of life; suffering, however, ...

Radical acceptance is a cognitive-behavioral attitude first coined by the American Vipassana Tradition of Buddhism and adopted by psychologist Marsha Linehan. Linehan incorporated the principles of ...

Through my work with thousands of patients over two and a half decades as a clinical psychologist, I can say with confidence that one of the main reasons we suffer in life is that we don’t accept ...

One of the four options you have for any problem is "radical acceptance" (Linehan, 1993). Radical acceptance is about accepting life on life’s terms and not resisting what you cannot or choose not to ...