EP176 Radical acceptance: How to deal with teaching frustrations you cannot change

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

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🗓️ 29 September 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

How much energy are you wasting complaining about or resisting reality? Radical acceptance can help you deal realistically with the facts of the situation (rather than the story you're telling yourself about the facts) and sitting with the discomfort of the present moment instead of insisting it shouldn't be happening.

Radical acceptance doesn't mean you approve of the problems you're facing or deem other people's inappropriate behavior as okay. You don't have to ignore your own needs, let people walk all over you, ignore a problem, or tell yourself it's okay that something awful is happening or has happened to you.

Rather, it's a principle you can practice to bravely see all that you are, and all that the people around you are. You can take constructive steps to improve working conditions while practicing radical acceptance of your current reality. You can change your self-talk from "I can't believe this unfair thing is happening" to "It IS happening, and I accept that reality for the purpose of being able to address it in the healthiest, most productive way possible. What thoughts, words, and actions can I choose that will make things better?"

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 176 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host
0:07.3	Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you
0:15.0	energized for the week ahead. Today I'm talking about the psychology principle of
0:19.8	radical acceptance and what it means to accept the things that you cannot change in teaching.
0:26.0	Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript or find our new truth for teachers
0:31.7	podcast community on Facebook.
0:33.7	You can share your thoughts on the show there and reflect with other listeners in our private group.
0:40.4	This episode is sponsored by UL Explorer Labs.
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1:10.0	Today on the podcast we are talking about radical acceptance.
1:15.0	Now this is a concept that I mentioned briefly in my book Fewer Things Better.
1:20.0	I've also mentioned it briefly in my book, Awakened, Change Your Mindset to Transform Your Teaching.
1:26.4	But I wanted to do a deep dive on how radical acceptance actually works
1:31.0	because it is a tricky principle for a lot of people but it can be
1:35.2	super transformative once you get it. Radical acceptance is a useful approach in our
1:41.4	inner dialogue or a self-talk when there are certain things about
1:45.2	our work or any aspect of our lives for that matter that we just can't change.
1:51.8	Practicing radical acceptance doesn't mean that you approve of the problems that you're facing or that you deem other people's inappropriate behavior as okay.
2:02.0	You don't have to ignore your own needs to practice
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