Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Jenna Glover, your guest host for the week.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and a Tuesday of Pride Week.

This week is all about how to tap into a more flexible mindset called dialectical thinking.

The idea that two opposing thoughts can coexist.

It can help you navigate a complicated world and is especially helpful for members of the

LGBTQ plus community.

Today we're going to talk about how mental flexibility can help us with extreme emotions,

like hurt or even hate, and how getting to a place of what we call radical acceptance

can lead to healing.

Radical acceptance is the concept of fully and completely acknowledging reality as it

is in the current moment.

An example of an everyday aspect of radical acceptance is being stuck in traffic.

Often when we're in traffic and we have somewhere that we need to be, we start to feel really

stressed and angry and this continues to grow and to build.

There's absolutely nothing we can do to change the situation.

Radical acceptance allows us to take a deep breath to acknowledge the frustration of not being

able to be at our destination on time, and then we can relax and accept the situation as

it is without causing ourselves additional distress or suffering.

Dialectical thinking is really helpful for radical acceptance because it helps us acknowledge

that two things that seem opposite can be true.

I hate the way that the situation is right now and the situation is the way it is, there's

nothing I can do about it.

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