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QuestionWhat is emotional validation?Trudi Griffin is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Wisconsin. She specializes in addictions, mental health problems, and trauma recovery. She has worked as a counselor in both community health settings and private practice. She also works as a writer and researcher, with education, experience, and compassion for people informing her research and writing subjects. She received Bachelor’s degrees in Communications and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She also earned an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marquette University.Emotional validation is acknowledging and accepting emotions for what they are, understanding they occur in response to something and need to be expressed in healthy ways without judgment.
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QuestionWhat does it mean to validate yourself?Trudi Griffin is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Wisconsin. She specializes in addictions, mental health problems, and trauma recovery. She has worked as a counselor in both community health settings and private practice. She also works as a writer and researcher, with education, experience, and compassion for people informing her research and writing subjects. She received Bachelor’s degrees in Communications and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She also earned an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marquette University.To acknowledge and accept your thoughts, feelings, ideas, and experiences without judgment.
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QuestionWhat does it mean to validate my feelings?Trudi Griffin is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Wisconsin. She specializes in addictions, mental health problems, and trauma recovery. She has worked as a counselor in both community health settings and private practice. She also works as a writer and researcher, with education, experience, and compassion for people informing her research and writing subjects. She received Bachelor’s degrees in Communications and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She also earned an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marquette University.Validating your feelings mean you recognize that you have feelings, that your feelings are in response to something and that is okay. Then, you allow yourself to feel those feelings without judgment.
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QuestionWhat does it mean to be validated by someone?Trudi Griffin is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Wisconsin. She specializes in addictions, mental health problems, and trauma recovery. She has worked as a counselor in both community health settings and private practice. She also works as a writer and researcher, with education, experience, and compassion for people informing her research and writing subjects. She received Bachelor’s degrees in Communications and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She also earned an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marquette University.To have someone acknowledge and accept your thoughts, feelings, ideas, experiences without judgment or trying to change them.
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QuestionMy wife isn't the type of person to be supportive when I'm confessing some emotions. I want her to acknowledge them at least. What is a simple way for her to do this?Paul Chernyak is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Chicago. He graduated from the American School of Professional Psychology in 2011.You can't make her do anything. You can only state how you feel and put yourself out there. Being vulnerable takes courage. She may not be open to being vulnerable at the moment. Consider that even if she does not acknowledge you, you at least had more courage than her to be genuine in the relationship.
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QuestionMy 14-year-old daughter will torment her sister, who is nine, to the point that she retaliates. This then escalates and 14-year-old says she's being bullied. She then says she's not being validated, but the 9-year-old was bullied. What do I do?Paul Chernyak is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Chicago. He graduated from the American School of Professional Psychology in 2011.Consider trying to get your daughters to empathize with one another. You might ask them how they think it makes the other one feels when they each act a certain way. Then help them brainstorm ways that they can respond differently.
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