Every morning I go to the bakery on the next street to buy freshly baked bread that comes from a nearby village in the mountains. But...

Yesterday, when the rain finally stopped and the sun began to shine, I headed out for a walk. It was warm enough for shorts and sandals,...

What’s the difference between a preference and a demand? And what do they have to do with acceptance? Both preferences and demands are...

“Be Here Now” has become a kind of cliché, and you may be tired of hearing it. But it’s become a cliché for good reason. Because it’s...

How can we stop obsessing about the future when everything seems so uncertain? The future is uncertain. And that’s the first thing we...

If we’re trying to deal with troubling emotions, it’s important to understand exactly what needs to be accepted. We’re often not able to...

During my years living in Asia, I used to go for meditation retreats in Sri Lanka about once a year. I’d head up into the mountains and...

So I’ve started to make significant progress in accepting myself just as I am. But what about you? How can I possibly begin to accept the...

When we talk about somebody having a victim identity, we tend to think of a case where the person has become quite dysfunctional—a person...

When I first came to Spain twenty-five years ago, I found a job teaching English in a private school. As the new teacher in town, I was...