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About David Estringel
David Estringel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, psychotherapist, and Clinical Assistant Professor at Our Lady of the Lake University's Worden School of Social Services. He is also an avid reader and poet. Writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, & essays. Future plans include teaching college English and continuing to work on his first book of poetry The Spaces in Between. His work has been accepted and/or published by Specter Magazine, Literary Juice, Foliate Oak Magazine, Terror House Magazine, Expat Press, 50 Haikus, littledeathlit, Down in the Dirt, Route 7 Review, Setu Bilingual Journal, Paper Trains, The Elixir Magazine, Soft Cartel, Harbinger Asylum, Briars Lit, Open Arts Forum, Cajun Mutt Press, Former People Journal, The Ugly Writers, Writ in Dust, Cephalopress, Twist in Time, Merak Magazine, Salt Water Soul, Cherry House Press, Subterranean Blue Poetry, Printed Words, Sunflower Sutras, Tulip Tree Publishing, Salt, PPP Ezine, Digging through the Fat, Haiku Journal, Foxhole Magazine, The Basil O'Flaherty, Three Line Poetry, Agony Opera, Channillo, and The Good Men Project. He is currently a Contributing Editor (fiction) at Red Fez, Lead Editor/columnist at The Good Men Project, an editor/writer at The Elixir Magazine, and columnist at Channillo. David can be found on Twitter (@The_Booky_Man) and his website at https://davidaestringel.com.
To me, acceptance is the ultimate “get out of jail free” card. Of course, the “jail” I speak of is the one that imprisons us via our tendencies toward anxiety and self-doubt. Our energy is better spent, working toward solving problems we can fix rather than pining over solutions that are out of reach. By accepting our limitations, we—in effect—own them, allowing us to tackle them in doable ways with the tools at our disposal. This requires some internal juggling, however, in that success is often realized in terms of “best achievable outcome.” Who can ask for more?
