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All Books on Acceptance (20)

Embracing Anxiety

How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion

by Karla McLaren, M.Ed.

4.4/5
Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Positive Psychology

The Seven Foundations of Well-Being

by Todd B. Kashdan (Ed.) and Joseph V. Ciarrochi (Ed.)
What You Can Change and What You Can’t

The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement

by Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD

4.3/5
The Inner Child Workbook

What to do with your past when it just won't go away

by Cathryn L. Taylor, M.A., M.F.C.C.

4.4/5
Welcoming the Unwelcome

Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World

by Pema Chödrön

4.5/5
Inside This Moment

A Clinician's Guide to Promoting Radical Change Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

by Kirk D. Strosahl, Patricia J. Robinson and Thomas Gustavsson

4.4/5
No Mud, No Lotus

The Art of Transforming Suffering

by Thich Nhat Hanh

4.6/5
Comfortable with Uncertainty

108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

by Pema Chödrön

4.5/5
Raising Good Humans

A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

by Hunter Clarke-Fields

4.6/5
Radical Acceptance

Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

by Tara Brach

4.7/5
The Power of Now

A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

by Eckhart Tolle

4.6/5
The Road Less Traveled and Beyond

Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety

by M. Scott Peck

4.4/5
The Self-Acceptance Project

How to Be Kind and Compassionate Toward Yourself in Any Situation

by Tami Simon (Editor)

4.4/5
The Meaning of Anxiety

by Rollo May

4.5/5
The Power of Acceptance

Finding Peace from Anxiety and Panic Attacks

by Judith Bemis

4.4/5
Starving the Anxiety Gremlin

by Kate Collins-Donnelly

4.2/5
The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness

by Jan E. Fleming and Nancy L. Kocovski

4.3/5
Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens

10-Minute Methods to Reduce Stress and Gain Confidence

by Sally Annjanece Stevens LCSW

4.2/5
How to Be Yourself

Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety

by Ellen Hendriksen, Ph.D.

4.4/5
Be Mighty

A Woman’s Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance

by Jill A. Stoddard

4.5/5

Books — Acceptance

All Books on Acceptance (20)

by Karla McLaren, M.Ed.

by Todd B. Kashdan (Ed.) and Joseph V. Ciarrochi (Ed.)

by Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD

by Cathryn L. Taylor, M.A., M.F.C.C.

by Pema Chödrön

by Kirk D. Strosahl, Patricia J. Robinson and Thomas Gustavsson

by Thich Nhat Hanh

by Pema Chödrön

by Hunter Clarke-Fields

by Tara Brach

by Eckhart Tolle

by M. Scott Peck

by Tami Simon (Editor)

by Rollo May

by Judith Bemis

by Kate Collins-Donnelly

by Jan E. Fleming and Nancy L. Kocovski

by Sally Annjanece Stevens LCSW

by Ellen Hendriksen, Ph.D.

by Jill A. Stoddard

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— Rhonda V. Magee

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"Acceptance is a process that we experience, not a final stage with an end point."

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler

"Acceptance is not about liking a situation. It is about acknowledging all that has been lost and learning to live with that loss."

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler

"When you fully accept that you don’t know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind, and that is when a greater intelligence can operate through you. And even thought can then benefit from that, since the greater intelligence can flow into it and inspire it."

— Eckhart Tolle

"When we engage with our children with presence as a good-enough parent, they come to know that they are worthy of love, kindness, and the infinite blessings of life."

— Susan Stiffelman

"By acceptance I mean a warm regard for him as a person of unconditional self-worth–of value no matter what his condition, his behavior, or his feelings."

— Carl Rogers

"Feelings in themselves don’t necessarily lead to wisdom, but the process of opening fully to them can."

— John Welwood

"If we could let ourselves feel just what we feel, instead of reacting against it, condemning it, or trying to manipulate and suppress it, perhaps we would develop greater confidence about facing whatever life confronts us with."

— John Welwood

— Jill A. Stoddard, PhD and Niloofar Afari, PhD

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"Building a true sense of self-trust comes from making contact with the deeper parts of our being, such as the truth of our loving, even when we sometimes act in ways we don’t like."

— Tara Brach

"Self-acceptance is the ability to accept all of our parts and to be open to them, even interested in them."

— Jay Early, PhD

"While traditional spiritual cultures of the East have specialized in illuminating the… “heaven” side of human nature — Western psychology has focused on the earthly half… We need a new vision that embraces all…. domains of human existence…."

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"When our Inner Child feels consistently unloved by our Inner Adult, the Child’s false beliefs, adopted in childhood when parents were unloving, are reinforced—beliefs that we are bad, wrong, unlovable, unimportant, inadequate, defective in some way."

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— Thich Nhat Hanh

— Babette Rothschild

"The essence of responsibility is the acceptance of the consequences—good and bad—of your actions. You are not responsible for everything that happens to you. You are responsible for how you deal with what happens to you."

— Eric Greitens

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— Jeff Foster

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