Welcome to the Therapy Thoughts podcast.

This is Tiffany Rowe.

I'm a clinical mental health counselor and psychology teacher in Utah.

And I want to change the mental health game.

The Therapy Thoughts podcast is all about breaking down therapy-related topics and making mental

health information easy to understand and super accessible. So join me for quick and direct

educational episodes and some deeper dives with experts from around the world. Together, we are

going to break down stigma. We're going to help each other make peace with mind,

body, and food. We're going to make therapy cool and invest time in our mental health.

Let's do it here, one therapy thought at a time.

Therapy thoughts. What's up, everybody? This is season four. I mean, shoot, before we jump in,

let's acknowledge that we made it. This, this has been no joke, right? We got through 2020,

2021's here. We are in a new year. And I got some new therapy thoughts for you. I want to jump

right into validation. I got to be

honest, sometimes I'm shocked at what I haven't talked about on the podcast. Like, how have I not

talked about validation? This is my jam. You know, I got a couple of books in my mind,

and this is one of them. So here we go. Let's talk about validation. This is a podcast you can listen to again

and again. This is your one-stop shop to learn how to validate what it is, how to do it, what not to do.

And I want you to share this one, share it with your partner, your family members, your friends,

like, this is a skill no one is taught. I learned how to validate

in grad school becoming a therapist, and that is a shame because we should learn this skill

in grade school. Just like everything I talk about on in this podcast, I wish mental health

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