Welcome to the Emancipate Your Mind podcast.

I'm your host, certified religious transition and trauma recovery coach, Terry Hales.

I help people step out of the shadows of religious fear and shame and embrace their

authentic selves with love and empathy.

If you're ready to throw off the shackles of learned binary thinking and explore a more

nuanced approach to life, this is your playground.

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Emancipate Your Mind podcast. I'm really excited to continue our

conversation from last week. If you have not listened to last week's conversation on acceptance,

please go back and listen to that episode because it's going to make today's episode make a lot more

sense or you know what, you do you's part of acceptance right you get to be

the authority in your life you get to make those decisions and decide what you do first and what you do

second but just know it might make a little bit more sense if you've listened to what acceptance

is at least from my point of view right i could wrong. But what acceptance is and what it is not.

Now, we're going to start with a silly little quote that I love. It's from an anonymous author,

but it says you aren't going to be everyone's cup of tea, especially when you're coffee.

Acceptance is understanding what is in this cup is tea, or it's coffee, or it's a glass of Coca-Cola or it's

wine or it's scotch or it's a margarita or it's water or it's milk. It is understanding that

this is what this is and we're not trying to magically change it into some other kind of

beverage just because we want

that other beverage really badly. We understand that we are not Jesus, whether you believe he is

mythical or real or whatever. We understand that we can't turn water into wine. We can't do this

with beverages. We can't do this with people. We understand that people are who they are. And even if we

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