Tag: acceptance
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Therapy for chronic illness: when recovery isn’t the goal
The work isn’t about making the condition smaller. It’s about helping you stop fighting your body, so the energy that was going into that fight becomes available for the life you want to live.
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When the struggle itself is the problem: willingness and chronic illness
The fight against a long-term condition can cost more than the symptoms do. Willingness offers a different place to put that energy, so you have more left for the life you want.
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Living by your values when chronic illness limits your body
Chronic illness can take your goals, but not your values. The difference between a goal and a value, why losing goals hurts, and how to keep living by what matters when your body has changed.
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Why acceptance isn’t resignation (when you have a chronic illness)
A clear look at what acceptance means in therapy for chronic illness: what gets misunderstood, what it actually involves, and what changes when the wrestle eases.