Self-validation: our most under-developed happiness tool
Welcome to the Aliveness Collective's bi-weekly session, a 90-minute multi-sensory, virtual experience to nourish your mind, body, spirit, mission, and connection to other amazing humans looking to say a full-body YES to life.
We know we need space for ourselves—but we also need reminders to take it. So we block this time.
Just show up. We do the rest.
✨ Aliveness Experience Description:
Self-validation: our most under-developed happiness tool
If you're like us, you've done a really good job contorting the bejeezuz out of yourself to be liked, to fit in, to be what we think we 'should' be while the little kid inside screams: "but wait, wait, what about me? what about me???"
The thing about all that chameleoning?
It's misery-making.
Because we have NO CONTROL over others' perceptions of us... and their perceptions are primarily dictated by the lenses through which they see the world, which according to most pyschologists, were already formed by age 6.
So... we're doing Cirque Du Soleil style gymnastics ALL THE TIME, in an effort to get people to ooh and ahh all over us. We're exhausted. They're bored. And nobody is being real.
So fun!
In this Aliveness Experience, we're going to explore self-validated intimacy—the practice of validating yourself so that you can take more risks, be more yourself, and care less about what other people think so that you can shine bigger and brighter.
In this experience, you’ll:
💡 Discover why self-validation is the most powerful tool for living a happier life
💗 Share the ways you seek approval with others who are on this journey
🧘♀️ Practice how to validate yourself - your feelings, yearnings, needs, and truth - in the moment
💬 Explore self-soothing techniques for when you show up differently and it's scary
This is for you if you’ve ever:
Over-explained yourself to be understood
Muted your truth to keep the peace
Felt “too much” or “not enough” in connection
Struggled to know what you really feel or need
You’ll leave with:
✨ Practices for staying connected to yourself in moments of vulnerability
✨ A stronger inner anchor for navigating relationships with clarity and courage
✨ A felt sense of intimacy that begins within—and ripples outward from there
True intimacy doesn’t ask you to shrink, shape-shift, or perform.
It asks you to be fully you—and stay.
Come reclaim the kind of connection that doesn’t cost your wholeness.
For more information on the Aliveness Collective, check out thealivenesscollective.com.