Those Validating Questions
Someone is talking. They are trying to think something through. They are trying to figure out what they will do next. You know that your role is to listen; to understand by giving your full attention; to pay attention to how they feel and to imagine their point of...
Framed
How are your validating skills and efforts panning out thus far? I hope you are willing to take baby steps and to celebrate each little success you experience- which means you will have to wear your mental "looking for success lens" in order to see them! And, have you...
Healthy Habits
Recently, I was asked what healthy habits I consider to be most important in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It's a great question and has given me a lot of food for thought! First, I would have to say the tools that help me to keep my mindbody in a positive and...
Sweet Smoothie Idea
I've been experimenting with something I have a lot of right now; zucchini! So, here's the scoop: If you pick zucchini while it is relatively young, like these pictured were about 10 inches long and a couple of inches in diameter, you can slice them and flash freeze...
Listen Up!
Here are the rules, as stated by the Lundberg's in their book, I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better. 1 Listen by giving your full attention. How well are you able to tune out other distractions and truly listen to others? If you really want to know, ask them....
Validate Thyself!
In seminar, our first assignment is to begin to validate ourselves. How does that work? Number one is seeking validation through prayer, from the only true source of all validation, which is from God. When we feel in harmony with heaven, the opinions and...
Bean Dip Twist
We tried a little different twist with a bean dip this week. It turned out to be pretty yummy, so here's a share. I had cooked a pot of pinto beans a month or so ago, with onions and seasoning and then froze some of them. So, when I had tomatoes that needed to...
Walk With Yourself First
In the journey of relationships, a continual flow of validation is needed. That is, we must learn to walk beside others as they feel their feelings and figure out their path. But that is a bit difficult to do if we are in the habit of stuffing or denying our own...
By Listening We Validate
val·i·da·tion ˌvaləˈdāSH(ə)n/ noun the action of checking or proving the validity or accuracy of something. "the technique requires validation in controlled trials" the action of making or declaring something legally or officially acceptable. "new courses, subject to...
It’s All Relative
Isn't it crazy how differently we each perceive the same situations? As we're trying to educate our voices to inform others that we mean what we say, we may have to look closely at the sound we make and the look on our faces and even our body language. Hopefully you...