Tag: validation

• What If Your Body Wasn’t a Billboard?

  

  Tired of treating your body like a performance? This post explores how cultural conditioning fuels body shame and control—and what it means to shift from external validation to internal self-worth. Learn how to honor your body as it is and reclaim your freedom.

  Forest Benedict, LMFT

  March 27, 2025

  Change, Health, Inspiration, Self-Connection, Shame

  body image, health, Religious trauma, self worth, validation

• Addicted to Approval: Moving from Codependency to Self-Connection

  

  Discover how focusing on external validation can fuel codependency and learn how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy can help you break free by cultivating self-connection and internal validation. Explore practical insights to shift away from people-pleasing and reclaim your worth.

  Forest Benedict, LMFT

  September 9, 2024

  Addiction, IFS, Recovery, Religious trauma, trauma

  addiction, approval, codependency, external validation, IFS, recovery, Religious trauma, trauma, validation