Tag Archives: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Happiness Pressure

There is pressure to be happy. Even one of the most well-known phrases in The Declaration of Independence is the right for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” One of my favorite quotations when I was younger was the … Continue reading

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I am not my body

Every now and then I work on a page or so from Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance by Rosie Molinary. The page I worked on yesterday had a message to the effect of “I am not my … Continue reading

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Replacing BUT with AND

Since I discharged from the UCSD Intensive Outpatient Eating Disorder Program, I have been doing recovery workbooks in my free time. One of them is an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy book for people with anorexia, and me new favorite concept … Continue reading

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