Hey everyone, welcome back to Teenage Therapy. I'm Gael. I'm Thomas. I'm Kayla. I'm Mark.

And welcome back to the podcast. If you're a new listener, this is the podcast where we

just talk about our feelings and give our points of views on subjects.

So, listed advice. Yes. We try not to say it's advice because I feel like that'd be legal.

I'm solicited opinions, thoughts, worldviews. Do you do what you want with it?

But I'm so proud of you. Not advice. For listening to this. So proud. Yeah, I'm extremely proud

of our listeners. You guys are really great. You deserve the world. Oh, I see what you're doing.

Oh, did you like that phrase? Do you feel how that would teach you validated?

Those are things to ask yourself. If that unleashed a little bit of endorphins in you,

think about why. So, to get right into it, when I was younger, something I realized, and I guess

this kind of ties back to when we talked about our childhood and how different environments

shape us. But my relationship with valid with praise has always been a little odd.

Because I don't think I'm the type to thrive off other people's validation.

Maybe I am. You see, I don't know. Because I'm not necessarily doing things to get to people to

be like, oh my god, you're so fucking cool. You're the best. But at the same time, like, I do want

them to think that of me. So, is that searching for validation? I mean, I think everyone does, but

I think you're just doing a normal, like a healthy amount of assessing over it. I'm like me. Because I

don't know. Other people's validation does control a lot of the decisions I make. Because it's so

important to me. Yeah, I would say you have a little bit more of an extreme. Quite an extreme.

I don't know. Like my whole life, I've always just cared a lot about what other people have thought.

And even though I have grown to be able to validate myself, I also still very much need other

people's validation in order to feel good about myself. That's so interesting. And I think

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