In a culture obsessed with positive thinking, can letting go be a radical act? | Nadine Levy

Beyond self-help mantras like Let them', radical acceptance shows us the value in learning how to truly accept life just the way it is

Have you ever been in the middle of difficult life circumstances to be told let it go" or don't dwell on it" as if it were a simple choice?

Such advice can have the effect of minimising our distress and abruptly changing the subject. Yet it is not the phrases themselves that are troubling - there is real substance to them - but the missed opportunity to grasp the true meaning of what Buddhist teacher Tara Brach calls radical acceptance".