According to the Cleveland Clinic: “Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a type of mental health therapy that helps you acknowledge your relationship with your thoughts and feelings. You learn to understand your feelings instead of changing them. You’ll work on reframing your values and adjusting your behaviors to better match them.” Yes, ACT is all that, but what really is ACT? Don’t get me wrong, scientific definitions are important but what I don’t want to do today is to make ACT seem like it’s a sort of method that is bigger and better than all other therapeutic modalities, add a bunch of complicated psychology words and hope that the general public who don’t spend most of their free times