Hello and welcome back to the Self Healers Soundboard.

I'll be flying solo for today's episode to dive into a request left by one of you listeners

on the Instagram account stuff healers.soundboard last week we put up a call for questions and one

of you had asked, how do you validate yourself?

And it occurred to me that this is another one of those concepts that Jenna and I often

refer to, the practice or the embodiment of this action of self-validating.

And as often is the case, there's a lack of clarity around what exactly do we mean?

And when we don't have the clarity around what we mean, it's really hard then to implement

that into practice.

So I thought what better of an opportunity than to dive into this topic right here, right

now, for all of us listening.

So let's begin with what we're even talking about when we throw out this word or this practice

is action of self-validation.

Self-validation is really simply an acceptance, an acceptance of our thoughts, our beliefs,

our experiences, our perspectives, what it is for us without explaining, justifying,

evaluating, criticizing, judging, acceptance is the simple act of allowance, becoming

aware of what they are and allowing it to be what your truth is.

Now validation itself is a natural, normal human need.

It's actually, as often as the case, grounded in our evolution, our need to keep ourselves

safe.

Over centuries, we are safest when we're in community.

So being validated or being accepted by our community at our core is related to keeping

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