It Shouldnt Be This Way, Janina Scarlet
It Shouldnt Be This Way, Janina Scarlet
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It Shouldn't Be This Way
Learning to Accept the Things You Just Can't Change

Author: Janina Scarlet

Narrator: Janina Scarlet

Unabridged: 5 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/27/2022


Synopsis

Every life-changing experience, be it the loss of a function, a job or a friendship, or the death of a loved one, can be excruciating. Illness can forever alter our life and our abilities. And what makes it even more challenging is that many other people might fail to understand how challenging our adjustment to "normalcy" might be. Because there is no "normal" in these experiences. How can there be?

When people hear the word acceptance, they might assume that it means being OK with what happened in the past or with how things currently are. In fact, there is a difference between acceptance and "feeling good" about what happened - acceptance means allowing yourself to feel whatever emotions naturally come up in response to what you are going through. It means acknowledging the reality of the pain, even though in an ideal world, it shouldn't be that way.

This therapeutic and comforting self-help guide will help you:
· Give yourself the permission to grieve or process events in the way that makes sense to you
· To fully experience and accept your feelings of anger, grief, frustration or anxiety
· To own your truth, even if it makes others uncomfortable

This essential book will teach you to understand and be able to accept the difficult moments and circumstances in your life and make room for how you feel about them. And with this kind of an acceptance, there can be healing.

About Janina Scarlet

Dr. Janina Scarlet is a licensed clinical psychologist, an award-winning author, and a full-time geek. A Ukrainian-born refugee, she survived Chernobyl radiation and persecution. She immigrated to the United States at the age of 12 with her family, and later, inspired by the X-Men, developed Superhero Therapy to help patients with anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Dr. Scarlet is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award by the United Nations Association for her work on Superhero Therapy. Her work has been featured on Yahoo, the BBC, NPR, the Sunday Times, CNN, CW, ABC, The New York Times, Forbes, and many other outlets. She regularly consults on books and television shows, including HBO's The Young Justice. She was also portrayed as a comic book character in Gail Simone's Seven Days graphic novel. Dr. Scarlet is the Lead Trauma Specialist at the Center for Stress and Anxiety Management and with the Pop Culture Hero Coalition.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Devina

If therapist is a book... This book helps me in accepting and healing emotional pain. Negative emotions that we feel are not always bad. To heal, we need to recognize and accept the emotion. In one day, we have certain emotional capacity (measurement of spoons in this book). We can run out of spoons......more

☀️JAK NAUCZYĆ SIĘ AKCEPTOWAĆ TO, CZEGO NIE MOŻNA ZMIENIĆ☀️ W życiu każdego z nas dużo się dzieje. Jeżeli chodzi o sferę emocjonalną, która swoją drogą jest zazwyczaj bardziej pomijana, zdarzają się sytuacje, kiedy myślimy że całe zło świata to nasza wina i najgorsze rzeczy które nam się przytrafiły t......more


Quotes

'This extremely well written book grabs you from the first pages and walks you through the challenges of some of life's most painful moments. It addresses that core question that all of us fear, but may not even realise is there, looming over us, until life happens: what will we do when nothing we do will do. Here's the beginning of an answer: read this gentle, strong and very wise book' Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., originator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and author of A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters