Marsha Linehan

"Practice Radical Acceptance Accepting your own imperfections is the gateway to an even more daring mindset: accepting the world as it is, not as you wish it would be. This is another fruit of my adventures in cognitive behavior therapy. About 20 years ago, my wife and I went to some workshops on mindfulness led by Marsha Linehan, whose techniques incorporate a core principle she calls radical acceptance. This boils down to being fully present in the moment and accepting reality. It requires that you let go of the illusion of control by acknowledging the facts as they are, even though you may want them to be different."

"When that happens, I use one or more of the five techniques in my return-to-center tool-box. They are Albert Ellis’s rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), Aaron Beck’s cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Marsha Linehan’s dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Martin Seligman’s positive psychology, and mindfulness."