Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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.

if you can't flee and you have to function what then?

Fleeing is usually hard, especially if you have no experience doing it and you think you're supposed to do and/or not do some big things that conflict with fleeing. But it's doable, if costly

I think in the case you need to flee and you can, sitting with the emotion is going to lead to apathy and depression. In the case where you can't flee, acknowledging and sitting with the emotion will give you the opportunity to deal with future problems in a more equanimous way.