Dialectical Behavioral Therapy/Distress Tolerance Skills/Willingness

Willingness is an active form of acceptance. It is accepting the need for action and taking that action. It is not necessarily going along with whatever the therapist or skills trainer thinks is best. Willingness does not demand that reality be something other than what it is. On the other hand willingness does not give up and refuse to take action that could change reality for the better in the future.