Episode Details

Are you accepting your life, or quietly avoiding it? I wrote this at two in the morning and it caught me out.

I teach acceptance. And the one thing I have never accepted is my own disability. That is the elephant in my world. Giving in to an electric wheelchair was one of the hardest days of the early years. I have spent my life dodging labels, dodging pity and dodging the story people hand to somebody like me, and I am not sure whether that is freedom or avoidance. There is no right way. Half a million self help books and not one of them has landed it.

One thing to try: Name your elephant. You do not have to do anything about it today. Just stop walking around it.

In this episode

• (1:18) Have I truly accepted my own reality
• (2:34) The one thing I have never accepted
• (3:51) Dodging labels, pity and the story handed to me
• (5:21) Living in the present, or avoiding the future
• (6:28) Half a million books and none of them got it
• (7:58) It is in the not doing and the not knowing
• (9:16) The gnarly branch finds the gap
• (11:00) You have an elephant too

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