Welcome to the Fraudulationship to Freedom podcast. I’m your host, Meg South. This is episode #48.

Today’s episode is about reality acceptance skills. Reality acceptance skills are another set of DBT distress tolerance skills. When we’ve been conned by a sociopath, it’s extremely difficult to believe that someone could be so evil. And I use the word evil deliberately and in a literal sense. If sociopaths are not evil, I don’t know who would qualify to be called evil. These predators deliberately sought us out as prey to accomplish their own ends without a thought or even a care as to how their lies and manipulations would impact us. This is because, as I have said in past episodes, sociopaths have no conscience. Accepting the reality that we’ve been duped so thoroughly is rough. But the sooner we accept reality, the sooner we can move toward healing.

Today I’m going to specifically talk about

· What reality acceptance skills are

· Goals of reality acceptance

· The difference between reality acceptance and giving up

· The difference between acceptance and reality acceptance

· What has to be accepted

· Factors that get in the way of radical acceptance

· Radical acceptance step-by-step

Let’s jump in.

Radical acceptance is the complete and total openness to the facts of reality as they are, without throwing a tantrum or responding with willful ineffectiveness. I’ll expand on this definition throughout this episode, but I want to just mention briefly what reality acceptance is not.

Radical acceptance is not approval. It is not compassion or love. It is not being passive, giving up, or giving in, and it is not against change.

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