Navigating Life's Struggles: Acceptance vs. Avoidance
Stillness in the Storms
- Published
- January 29, 2025
- Duration
- 12:49
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 11, 2026
Discusses health, mental, religion, society, culture.
Summary
Are you accepting your life, or quietly avoiding it? I wrote this at two in the morning and it caught me out.I teach acceptance. And the one thing I have never accepted is my own disability. That is the elephant in my world. Giving in to an electric wheelchair was one of the hardest days of the early years. I have spent my life dodging labels, dodging pit…
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Are you accepting your life, or quietly avoiding it? I wrote this at two in the morning and it caught me out.I teach acceptance. And the one thing I have never accepted is my own disability. That is the elephant in my world. Giving in to an electric wheelchair was one of the hardest days of the early years. I have spent my life dodging labels, dodging pity and dodging the story people hand to somebody like me, and I am not sure whether that is freedom or avoidance. There is no right way. Half a
Themes
- health
- mental
- religion
- society
- culture