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