
Find Your Path to Acceptance
Mindful techniques that help you let go
Lottie Storey(Author)
Leaping Hare Press
Published on 4. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-80570-113-2 (ISBN)
Description
Embrace life's imperfections and find peace in the present moment with this compassionate guide.
We all encounter experiences that challenge us, from difficult relationships to personal disappointments or losses. Yet, resisting reality often deepens our suffering. Find Your Path to Acceptance helps you to recognise what you can and cannot control, teaching you how to move forward with clarity and compassion.
Drawing on insights from experienced therapist, Lottie Storey, this book provides practical tools to cultivate acceptance as a skill, not a resignation.
For example, you'll discover:
Mindfulness practices to observe and accept your thoughts and emotions without judgement.
Exercises to challenge limiting beliefs and release patterns that keep you stuck.
Techniques for letting go of past regrets and reducing the mental weight of unresolved experiences.
Strategies to cultivate self-compassion and forgiveness, both for yourself and others.
Guidance for embracing uncertainty and change, enabling a more peaceful, flexible approach to daily life.
By integrating these practices into everyday routines, you will learn how to respond to life's challenges with calmness and perspective.Find Your Path to Acceptance encourages a shift from resistance to acceptance, offering a clear path towards emotional freedom.
Part of the Find Your Path series, which sheds light on a range of common mental-health struggles and offers practical, compassionate techniques for navigating life's inevitable challenges. Other books in the series include Find Your Path through Anxiety, Find Your Path through Depression, Find Your Path through Imposter Syndrome, Find Your Path to Compassion and Find Your Path to Resilience.
We all encounter experiences that challenge us, from difficult relationships to personal disappointments or losses. Yet, resisting reality often deepens our suffering. Find Your Path to Acceptance helps you to recognise what you can and cannot control, teaching you how to move forward with clarity and compassion.
Drawing on insights from experienced therapist, Lottie Storey, this book provides practical tools to cultivate acceptance as a skill, not a resignation.
For example, you'll discover:
Mindfulness practices to observe and accept your thoughts and emotions without judgement.
Exercises to challenge limiting beliefs and release patterns that keep you stuck.
Techniques for letting go of past regrets and reducing the mental weight of unresolved experiences.
Strategies to cultivate self-compassion and forgiveness, both for yourself and others.
Guidance for embracing uncertainty and change, enabling a more peaceful, flexible approach to daily life.
By integrating these practices into everyday routines, you will learn how to respond to life's challenges with calmness and perspective.Find Your Path to Acceptance encourages a shift from resistance to acceptance, offering a clear path towards emotional freedom.
Part of the Find Your Path series, which sheds light on a range of common mental-health struggles and offers practical, compassionate techniques for navigating life's inevitable challenges. Other books in the series include Find Your Path through Anxiety, Find Your Path through Depression, Find Your Path through Imposter Syndrome, Find Your Path to Compassion and Find Your Path to Resilience.
Reviews / Votes
Drawing on learnings and wisdom from her own professional practice and different types of therapeutic approach and spiritual traditions, Lottie Storey demonstrates how acceptance can provide a gentle pathway to freedom and peace. We learn that acceptance isn't about resignation but about being strong enough to face the situation, armed with the tools and techniques to do so with confidence. A valuable guide for anyone navigating change or uncertainty or coping with difficult emotions and feelings.Rebecca Frank, Commissioning Editor of The Simple Things
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80570-113-2 (9781805701132)
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05/2026
Leaping Hare Press
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Person
Lottie Storey is a writer and therapist. She has written professionally for many years on a range of topics and for varied clients. Her editorial work has appeared in magazines, including BBC Science Focus, Psychologies and Red, plus newspapers such as The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer. Lottie is also a contributing editor for Fearne Cotton's Happy Place. As a specialist copywriter, Lottie has collaborated with everyone from organizations such as the World Health Organization, Bupa and Victim Support to individual well-being practitioners.
With a BSc in Psychology and a Master's in Counselling and Psychotherapy (graduating with distinction), Lottie's work is rooted in a robust understanding of the research around mental health. Her undergraduate dissertation and postgraduate thesis both focused on body image and eating disorders, giving Lottie a deep understanding of these complex issues. While volunteering for a youth well-being charity, Lottie also studied for a qualification in adolescent mental health.
As well as her writing work, Lottie runs a small private practice in Bristol where she works part-time as a therapist. You can get in touch with her via her writing website (lottiestorey.co.uk) or through her therapy site (lottiestoreytherapy.co.uk).
With a BSc in Psychology and a Master's in Counselling and Psychotherapy (graduating with distinction), Lottie's work is rooted in a robust understanding of the research around mental health. Her undergraduate dissertation and postgraduate thesis both focused on body image and eating disorders, giving Lottie a deep understanding of these complex issues. While volunteering for a youth well-being charity, Lottie also studied for a qualification in adolescent mental health.
As well as her writing work, Lottie runs a small private practice in Bristol where she works part-time as a therapist. You can get in touch with her via her writing website (lottiestorey.co.uk) or through her therapy site (lottiestoreytherapy.co.uk).
Content
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
What Is Acceptance & How Can We Achieve It?
CHAPTER TWO
What Are We Being Asked to Accept?
CHAPTER THREE
What Stops Us Accepting??
CHAPTER FOUR
Developing Awareness - the First Step on the Path to Acceptance?
CHAPTER FIVE
Cultivating Psychological Flexibility - the Key to Acceptance?
CHAPTER SIX
False Acceptance?
CHAPTER SEVEN
Acceptance as a Daily Practice?
CHAPTER EIGHT
An Accepting Life?
Endnotes?
Glossary?
Further Reading?
About the Author?
Acknowledgements?
Index?
The Find Your Path Series?
CHAPTER ONE
What Is Acceptance & How Can We Achieve It?
CHAPTER TWO
What Are We Being Asked to Accept?
CHAPTER THREE
What Stops Us Accepting??
CHAPTER FOUR
Developing Awareness - the First Step on the Path to Acceptance?
CHAPTER FIVE
Cultivating Psychological Flexibility - the Key to Acceptance?
CHAPTER SIX
False Acceptance?
CHAPTER SEVEN
Acceptance as a Daily Practice?
CHAPTER EIGHT
An Accepting Life?
Endnotes?
Glossary?
Further Reading?
About the Author?
Acknowledgements?
Index?
The Find Your Path Series?