I go to the park every day. Yesterday, I overheard a mom talking to her five-year-old who’d scraped his knee. “I know that ...

Supporting a child through intense emotions while managing your own is challenging work. Part of this is to practise ...

Emotions are central to most, if not all, mental health concerns, and this is particularly true in the case of disordered eating and eating disorders. Disordered eating behaviours often serve to ...

Validation is the foundation of trust, connection, and emotional health. Learn how to practice validation, recover from invalidation, and build compassion.

Parents today are so terrified of invalidating their kids that they often swing like a pendulum in the opposite direction, training their kids that their emotions should be the center of the universe.

As a licensed professional counselor and play therapist working with children ages 3-10, my work focuses on supporting children and families through trauma, adjustment, family issues and ...

Validating someone’s emotions means acknowledging them. You are not agreeing or disagreeing with the feelings; you are demonstrating that you hear the other person. You likely have noticed that logic ...

What: Deep Breaths: Validating Your Child’s Emotions and Needs, an Eat Chat Parent event presented by the Eagle River Youth Coalition. When: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23. Where: Eagle Valley ...

Jeff Guenther shares how one can force their partner to agree with a false narrative while trying to get their feelings ...