Like so many other milestones and traditions this year, the holidays will look different during the Coronavirus Pandemic than they have in previous years. It will be easy to focus on what and who is missing, the traditions lost, or the sense of collective grief in the air during this time. Instead, we encourage you to plan ahead and decide what is possible as you reimagine holiday celebrations, pandemic-style. 

In this post, we’ll describe some things to consider as you plan your holiday gatherings, how to make ...

Validation is the need to have your self-worth, opinions, and thoughts recognized as worthwhile. It’s the need to be seen, understood, and accepted. Validation falls into two major categories, with people normally gravitating toward one of these types of validation more naturally: Internal and External. 

In our work at Center for Shared Insight in Denver, Colorado, we help our clients recognize how they might rely on validation in both healthy and unhealthy ways. In this post, we examine the two main types of validation, why you might tend ...