The Power of Acceptance: One Year of Mindfulness and Meditation

by Mollie Player

The feeling was She had it while she read, while she drove, while she ate, and while she played with her child. And when the feeling left, it was a great disappointment.

It was the feeling of connection with the Divine, and Mollie Player wanted to hold on to it forever. But how? What was the key to continuous meditation?

The Power of Acceptance is Player’s real-life endeavor to discover the answer to this question. This year-long journal follows her failures and successes as she attempts to do one sitting meditation each day, then to remain in the state of meditation as much as possible after that.

Featuring interviews on meditation from six long-time practitioners, The Power of Acceptance isn't a meditation prescription, but rather a personal story of one woman's spiritual struggles—and breakthroughs.

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Published April 28, 2022

About the author

Mollie Player is a licensed mental health counselor, a self-help writer and a passionate advocate for practical, solution-focused depression treatment. Her goal is to help people perform feats of great strength—feats like achieving personal goals, managing mental health challenges … maybe even finding inner peace. She writes in a lighthearted way about the heavy work of mental health, sharing evidence-based ways to gain strength and get it done.

Her self-help books include Fights You’ll Have After Having a Baby: A Self-help Story, The Naked House: Five Principles for a Minimalist Home, The Power of Acceptance: One Year of Mindfulness and Meditation and We Get Better: 48 Treatment Options for Chronic Depression.

A light-hearted chronicle of her own adventures with depression, Thirty Cures in Thirty Years, is coming soon. Player is also the sole author of an educational book series called School in a Book: A K-12 Review.

Player earned her Master’s of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Divine Mercy University and practices individual therapy at Steffen Counseling Services in Washington state. She also has degrees in English, history and religion.