Want Your Self Weekly: What's One Thing You've Learned To Embrace About Yourself?

Something that you didn't embrace, or maybe even accept, before?

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This is our LAST post for our Mental Health theme of MAY! If you haven’t yet checked out the rest of the prompts from this month, go check them out here:

• What Does "Optimal Mental Health" Mean To You, For You?

• Mental Health Role Models

• Adding Mental Health To Your Schedule

and of course, make sure you add your comment to this post:

• Welcome To TWC: What's One Thing You Love About Yourself + Why

FINAL MAY PROMPT

Our final PROMPT of the first month of TWC:

What is ONE THING about yourself that you've learned to EMBRACE, that you once didn't?

I had a conversation recently with a friend about “acceptance.” They were talking about something they accepted, and I was curious: did they mean they acknowledged this thing, or that they welcomed it with open arms?

While I'm all about acceptance — especially when it comes to self acceptance — I wonder if sometimes we get so stuck in the mindset of "acceptance" (which is all about recognizing something as truth, no matter how we feel about it) that we forget about what it could look like to "embrace" (which is all about being actively welcoming and enthusiastic about that truth).