Acceptance vs. Apathy

If you've been hanging around with me for a while, you know I talk a *lot* about acceptance (if you're new, buckle up...it's a very common theme here). But I've bumped into something interesting in my own personal work and I wanted to bring it to the podcast and explore it with you and that's: acceptance vs. apathy.

The thing with acceptance is that we don't have to LIKE it in order to ACCEPT it. This is tricky. We fall into believing that if we don't like it, we can't accept it. That's not the case. Our collective acceptance of COVID is a good example: we accept that it's part of the reality of the world, we don't like it whatsoever. You follow me?

But sometimes we veer away from acceptance towards apathy, adopting a "I don't care, whatever" kind of attitude and calling THAT come-what-may approach "acceptance."

There's a biiiiig difference between acceptance and apathy. And it's worth discussing because we can't leapfrog ourselves into acceptance from apathy...dammit.

Join me for this week's episode and let's talk about it.

Full show notes are located at www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com/podcast/165