I go to the park every day. Yesterday, I overheard a mom talking to her five-year-old who’d scraped his knee. “I know that ...

Emotions are central to most, if not all, mental health concerns, and this is particularly true in the case of disordered eating and eating disorders. Disordered eating behaviours often serve to ...

Parents today are so terrified of invalidating their kids that they often swing like a pendulum in the opposite direction, training their kids that their emotions should be the center of the universe.

When an emotion arises, how do you usually respond? For many, suppression and analysis are the default, but truly processing emotions is key to healing and stronger connections. Most of us were never ...

Jeff Guenther shares how one can force their partner to agree with a false narrative while trying to get their feelings ...

Validating someone’s emotions means acknowledging them. You are not agreeing or disagreeing with the feelings; you are demonstrating that you hear the other person. You likely have noticed that logic ...

As a licensed professional counselor and play therapist working with children ages 3-10, my work focuses on supporting children and families through trauma, adjustment, family issues and ...

Validation is the lifeblood of emotional connection. It is the glue that holds relationships together, ensuring that partners feel heard, seen, and understood. When the destructive counterpart, ...

Part of being in relationship with other people is being faced with opinions and viewpoints you disagree with. It’s easy to dismiss the way other people think and feel when you don’t think or feel the ...