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How to practice acceptance while processing family trauma

My dad is dying and I want to be present with him but I also keep thinking about all the ways he hurt our family and I can't tell if acceptance means forgiving or just pretending it didn't happen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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True acceptance must include the full reality of both love and harm without spiritual bypassing of either.

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