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- to hold someone close to you with your arms to express affection, love, or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving someone:
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- Allowing myself to be a work in progress. I’ve put a lot of pressure on myself to always know what I’m doing and never make mistakes. I’ve missed opportunities to try something new because I was so afraid of looking silly.
- Being curious about who I am. For much of my life, I defined myself by the ways I didn’t measure up to the person I thought others expected me to be. I didn’t know who I was—only who I was not.
- Letting go of what I can’t control. I’ve fallen into the trap of believing that if I could just do and say all the right things, then people would like me.
- Doing things that scare me. A lot of things scare me. I’ve let my fear hold me back from many things I want to do. I’ve hated myself for being a coward.
to hold someone tightly with both arms to express love, liking, or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving someone: She saw them embrace on the station platform. He leaned over to embrace the child. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. embrace verb (INCLUDE) C1 [ T ] formal.
EMBRACE definition: 1. If you embrace someone, you put your arms around them, and if two people embrace, they put their…. Learn more.
- Accept and affirm that you are worthy of good things: This may seem like a small thing, but too many of us who have experienced difficult, especially traumatic, events too often feel we somehow “deserve” them or “brought them on ourselves.”
- Remember the price(s) you have paid to get here: Embracing the good things in your life doesn’t mean for a minute you will, or should, forget the challenges you have faced along the way.
- Resist catastrophizing: If you have faced challenges (and who hasn’t?) , and it sometimes feels like a cosmic pig pile on top of you of difficulties and even traumas, it can be hard not to believe “the whole world” is against you, that you’re “born to lose” as Ray Charles’ song puts it.
- Stay mindful: You will enjoy your life’s sunny weather by paying attention to the good things happening to and for you. Think about them. Take pleasure and delight in them.
If you embrace someone, you put your arms around them and hold them tightly, usually in order to show your love or affection for them. You can also say that two people embrace.
to hold someone tightly with both arms to express love, liking, or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving someone: She saw them embrace on the station platform. He leaned over to embrace the child. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to hold someone or something.
To embrace something is to welcome it with open arms, hold, hug, accept completely. You might embrace your sweetheart, or even changes in technology. Embrace is from the French verb embrasser, which started out meaning "to clasp in the arms" (but now includes kissing).
