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From: Jai Prakash Sunda
Date: 03 Oct 2010
Time: 10:15:45 -0500
Remote Name: 59.164.117.183
A great article Ellen, full of lot of deep insights! I too at one point in time when got introduced to the concept of "acceptance", felt that it was very easy. I said to myself - "OK, I accept my stuttering and as I am", But one day I was reading a blog post with my name in it and I saw PWS against my name and I immediately felt the shame I used to feel when I used to stammer. Acceptance and knowing oneself is a life long journey and happens first at intellectual level and then emotional level, but " . . . change first, and we'll talk about why you behaved as you did later.- (Woollams & Brown, 1979)" is the way to go. I would like to end with one of my favorite quote by Norman Vincent Peale - "One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is."