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I do think self-acceptance can go too far. Much of the time fear/anxiety is the "hey, this is a bad situation and you shouldn't stay in it" signal. A lot of the language of self-care is designed to maintain whatever is, and that's not generally ideal
So if you force yourself to "sit with" a "flee this" signal, you're not actually accepting your feelings at all.
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And at the same time, if we're not constantly examining the validity of the "flee this" response and exploring the unconscious material fueling it, we spend our whole life fleeing, often from life itself.
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People don't flee nearly enough.
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if you can't flee and you have to function what then?
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'Sit with' should literally be interpreted as seated meditation in a safe place where life linked anxiety can be grounded out by cultivating friendliness towards it. Agree with you for when being in the world means getting to safety. Emotions protect us in many cases.
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It's not how people think of sitting with emotion but it's a better idea than the folk psychology concept.
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