Understanding the Need for Validation and Control

Steps Toward Self Validation ~ Identify the values and characteristics about yourself that make you awesome. ~ Make a Bill of Rights. “I deserve to…” ~ Follow your own Bill of Rights ~ Identify the people in your past from whom you craved validation and never got it. Explore why that may have been more about them than you. ~ Identify why you crave validation. Do you want to know you are important? Relevant? Lovable? ~ Make a list of people you know who fit that label. ~ How are you like those people?