To be on any kind of path of transformation, personal growth, healing or spiritual awakening, inevitably involves acceptance of all the dark, murky stuff that we straight up don’t like; the things we have a hard time facing. Acceptance  is so counter intuitive – I mean, why would we accept something that we strongly dislike, feel ashamed of, want desperately to change? Because acceptance precedes change. And because in truth, it’s not the thing itself, but our own  ...