Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on being present, being aware, knowing our values, and taking action.

This is a useful skill when you feel strong emotions that seem overwhelming.

Validation doesn’t always mean acting on our feelings, but showing understanding about why we feel them. It’s essentially human to experience a full range of emotions; some pleasant, others not so much. What we do with these emotions makes all the difference. Validation is a foundation for mental health and wellbeing. Here you can read about validation, invalidation, the ‘validation phase’, and steps for validating your own emotions and those of others. Validation is a founda