Radical Acceptance Resources

Books

Blog Posts

• How to Practice Radical Acceptance (DBT) Without Dismissing Your Pain?
• Top 7-Day Acceptance Challenge For A Peaceful Life
• Best 50 Acceptance Affirmations
• Best 10 Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Books
• What Radical Acceptance Is and What It Is Not
• The Psychology Behind Radical Acceptance
• Signs You’re Struggling to Accept Reality
• How to Accept What You Cannot Change?
• How to Move From “Why Me?” to “What Do I Do Now?”
• How to Know What to Accept and What to Change?
• Radical Acceptance Exercises for Beginners
• 50 Radical Acceptance Journal Prompts for Letting Go

Radical Acceptance Podcasts and Videos

• Radical Acceptance: Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace — Tara Brach
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  A full podcast talk about letting go of resistance to reality and learning to respond more effectively to difficult circumstances.
• Turning the Mind to Radical Acceptance — Therapy for Real Life
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  Therapist Anna Lindberg Cedar explains DBT radical acceptance and the related Turning the Mind skill, then walks listeners through applying it when circumstances cannot immediately be changed.
• Radical Acceptance: 5 Steps to Embrace Reality for Lasting Peace — Relationships Made Easy
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  Provides a five-step approach to acknowledging realities you cannot control without confusing acceptance with approval or resignation.
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Skills for Overcoming Emotional Dysregulation — The Peter Attia Drive
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  A deeper discussion of DBT that explains the central balance between acceptance and change and covers radical acceptance, Wise Mind, DEAR MAN, Opposite Action, and other DBT skills.

• Radical Acceptance — DBT Skills from Experts
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  A concise, professional explanation of radical acceptance as a DBT distress-tolerance skill. This video was developed with clinicians and researchers connected with Rutgers University’s DBT program.
• How She Learned Radical Acceptance — Marsha Linehan
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  Marsha Linehan, creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, explains how she came to understand radical acceptance and why it became such an important part of DBT.
• Radical Acceptance: Our Gateway to Love and Freedom — Tara Brach
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  Tara Brach explores radical acceptance in relation to self-criticism, shame, feeling inadequate, and getting stuck fighting your own experience. Her approach combines psychology with Buddhist mindfulness and self-compassion.

Radical Acceptance and DBT Apps

• Radically DBT
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  A DBT skills and diary-card app with interactive skill guides, behavior and urge tracking, mental-health measures, a crisis plan, and tools for practicing DBT between therapy sessions.