Fighting against the reality of your child’s mental illness and addiction uses up a tremendous amount of energy. That will drain you. 

If you have a teen or adult child with mental illness or addiction, acceptance is an important part of your path to peace. 

This may include accepting that your lives are completely different than they were before mental illness and addiction, accepting difficult events that happened, what your child is feeling and what they are dealing with. 

Acceptance does not mean you have to like what is happening; it means you are acknowledging the facts of the situation and not focusing your energy on why it shouldn’t be that way.  

Acceptance does not mean you have to agree with your child’s decisions or that you would make the same decisions yourself.

Accepting your child allows you to focus on loving them as they are.

Acceptance will allow you to stop the war within you that may have been going on for years, the struggle to fight against reality. 

Fighting against the reality of their mental illness and addiction uses up a tremendous amount of energy. That will drain you. 

Rather your energy can instead be used on positive things such as becoming more resourceful with helping your child and enjoying your time with them, your other children, and your family and friends.

Sending love and light,

Debbie