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Key takeaways from Free yourself from the tentacles of pain with radical acceptance

The painful feelings you avoid grow twisted in the dark. By facing your sorrows and struggles you can take back your life Open at source

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I slowly discovered something important: the more we try to evade or avoid painful realities, the more entangled we become in the tentacles of their embrace.

doesn’t recommend that we dwell on the feeling, but rather that we try to explore its shape and boundaries to increase its definition.

We can reinterpret the meaning of painful events, take actions to decrease the pain and reduce the distance it travels through other aspects of our lives.

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