Imagine that you are a 4-year-old again, and your grandparents gave you a beautiful golden teddy bear with a bright red ribbon around its neck. You took this teddy bear with you everywhere and it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is popular to advise people that to interact effectively with another person, it is important to “validate” their feelings and emotions. It is said that doing so can facilitate good interactions ...