Read more
Every life-changing experience, be it illness, the loss of a job or a friendship, or the death of a loved one, can be excruciating. And what makes it even more difficult is that many other people might fail to understand how challenging our adjustment to 'normalcy' might be. Because there is no 'normal' in these experiences. How can there be?
People assume that 'acceptance' means being OK with what happened in the past or with how things currently are. But there is a difference between acceptance and 'feeling good' about what happened - acceptance means allowing yourself to feel whatever emotions naturally come up in response to what you are going through. It means acknowledging the reality of the pain, even though in an ideal world,
it shouldn't be this way.
This therapeutic and comforting self-help guide will help you to:
· Give yourself the permission to grieve or process events in the way that makes sense to you
· Fully experience and accept your feelings of anger, grief, frustration or anxiety
· Own your truth, even if it makes others uncomfortable
And with this kind of an acceptance, there can be healing.
Janina Scarlet is a licensed clinical psychologist and the award-wining author of
Superhero Therapy as well as
Therapy Quest,
Super-Women,
Super Survivors,
Dark Agents, and
SuperKids. Her pioneering work and has been featured on the BBC, CBS, MTV News, CW,
Huffington Post and others. She is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award by the United Nations Association for her work on Superhero Therapy.
About the author
Dr. Janina Scarlet is a licensed clinical psychologist, an award-winning author, and a full-time geek. A Ukrainian-born refugee, she survived Chernobyl radiation and persecution. She immigrated to the United States at the age of 12 with her family, and later, inspired by the X-Men, developed Superhero Therapy to help patients with anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Dr. Scarlet is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award by the United Nations Association for her work on Superhero Therapy. Her work has been featured on Yahoo, the BBC, NPR, the Sunday Times, CNN, CW, ABC, The New York Times, Forbes, and many other outlets. She regularly consults on books and television shows, including HBO's The Young Justice. She was also portrayed as a comic book character in Gail Simone's Seven Days graphic novel. Dr. Scarlet is the Lead Trauma Specialist at the Center for Stress and Anxiety Management and with the Pop Culture Hero Coalition.
Summary
An essential and comforting self-help guide to the difficult notion of acceptance - how we accept what we cannot change before we can refocus our goals on what we value.
Foreword
An essential and comforting self-help guide to the difficult notion of acceptance - how we accept what we cannot change before we can refocus our goals on what we value.
Additional text
'This extremely well written book grabs you from the first pages and walks you through the challenges of some of life's most painful moments. It addresses that core question that all of us fear, but may not even realise is there, looming over us, until life happens: what will we do when nothing we do will do. Here's the beginning of an answer: read this gentle, strong and very wise book' Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., originator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and author of A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters
