Marsha Linehan describes her experience at the Buddhist monastery where she found what she (and her clients) needed: radical acceptance. It is a major part of DBT, the therapy she …

10 steps to practicing Radical Acceptance according to DBT’s founder, Marsha Linehan: Observe that you are questioning or fighting reality (“it shouldn’t be this way”)

Mar 3, 2022 · Marsha Linehan discussed the practice of radical acceptance in her dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and letting go of what isn’t possible.

But all of us have experienced radical acceptance so what I want you to do right now is to try to focus in on sometime in your life when you've actually accepted something, radically - …

Jan 7, 2025 · Life is filled with challenging events and difficult emotions. But what if we approached these moments with acceptance rather than resistance? This is the idea behind …

Her therapist introduced the concept of radical acceptance and encouraged her to use it as a way to break free from the cycle of rumination and resistance. Initially, Rachael found herself …

Jul 29, 2025 · Radical acceptance is a distress tolerance skill that is designed to keep pain from turning into suffering. Radical acceptance is NOT approval, but rather completely and totally …

Jan 14, 2021 · Truly accepting a situation means coming to terms with the aspects of it that we can’t change, notes Marsha Linehan, which allows you to ‘liberate the bottled-up energy’ and …

Radical acceptance is a concept rooted in mindfulness and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) which was created by Marsha Linehan. It involves fully accepting reality—right now–as it is, …

Oct 10, 2025 · Radical acceptance, developed by Marsha Linehan as a part of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, or DBT, is the act of accepting experiences as they are, and not trying to …