On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick. And today on our show, we're going to be

discussing invalidation. But before we get to invalidation, if you want to be a guest on our

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And today we are going to be discussing invalidation, validation.

We're going to be discussing the verbal versions of invalidation.

We're going to be discussing nonverbal versions of invalidation.

So let's first start off by giving you the definition of validation. So validation is the

recognition of a person's thoughts, feelings, emotions, behaviors, and experiences as being valid and real.

Validation tells someone that they are respected.

And on our Survivor Story episodes, they are actually a form of validation that you did not get

from your families or your relationships. You're hearing similar

scenarios or experiences that at the time may have been invalidated by someone, someone who did not

support you, someone who caused you to doubt your experiences. And by listening to our show,

we are actually able to validate those

experiences for you now where they were once invalidated because the person who's telling

their story had the same experience that you had. Now you know that what you went through was

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