Invalidated quotes

One of the worst feelings you can experience is to risk communicating that you feel invalidated, and then have that request for it to stop also be invalidated. Being dismissed by indifference is wildly painful. You feel devalued, invisible and defeated ☼

Invalidating someone else is not merely disagreeing with something that the other person said. It is a process in which individuals communicate to another that the opinions and emotions of the target are invalid, irrational, selfish, uncaring, stupid, most likely insane, and wrong, wrong, wrong.

We all long to be seen, heard, and understood. But most of the time, I experience the opposite — invalidated.

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You get to decide right here and now that you are already good enough!✨ You feel it in your bones, even if buried below, that you are worthy of feeling loved, and worthy of your experiences being validated. Even if you grew up in a home where you felt unseen and your experiences invalidated. But, as an adult you can be left feeling like your needs are never met. Like you’re not good enough. And somewhere, underneath this, might be the belief that you don’t deserve to have your needs met....