Self-validation

Valid

Taking your own feelings seriously: self-validation with DBT

Six weeks to close the courtroom

6 weeks·21 sessions·10–15 min a day·Built with clinicians
Who it’s for

For anyone who puts their own feelings on trial — who hears a feeling arrive and answers it with a ruling instead of a hearing. Especially for people who were taught early that feelings were something to correct.

What’s inside

The first 4 sessions are free. Unlock the rest whenever you’re ready.

Begin
Week 1 · The Case for Your Feelings
Week 2 · The Catch
05Your invalidation phrases13 min
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06The substitution13 min
07Weekly review6 min
Week 3 · Emotions as Information
08What each feeling is telling you12 min
09Size and fit13 min
10Makes sense AND11 min
11Weekly review6 min
Week 4 · The Six Levels, Inward
12Attending and reflecting13 min
13Making sense of you12 min
14Radical genuineness with yourself13 min
15Weekly review6 min
Week 5 · Under Fire
16When others invalidate13 min
17Validation vs wallowing12 min
18Validate, then act12 min
19Weekly review6 min
Week 6 · The Standing Practice
20Reading your data13 min
21Keeping your own side13 min
GraduationA closing film from your coach
Why this works

There may be a voice in you that answers every feeling with a verdict: overreacting, shouldn't feel this, others have it worse. That voice never made one feeling smaller — it only added a second wound. This program teaches DBT self-validation: catching the verdicts, substituting a sentence that holds — it makes sense that I feel this — and reading what your feelings have been trying to tell you. Thirty seconds per catch, one tap each evening, and your own record does the convincing.

Your answers are encrypted and never sold. No ads. If you’re in crisis, this program isn’t the right help — local emergency services are.

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