Learn to give yourself self-compassion and start exploring and identifying how you really feel rather than relying on the words of others. Only you know how you feel. Engaging in self-care and finding healthy and supportive people in your life is a good step in recovering from invalidation.

How do you stop someone from invalidating you?

Replacing Invalidation with Validation

The best way to stop invalidating others or yourself is by practicing validation. Validation is never about lying. Or agreeing. It's about accepting someone else's internal experience as valid and understandable.

What causes emotional invalidation?

Other reasons why people invalidate others' thoughts, feelings, emotions, or experiences include an inability to understand or empathise, or as a result of feelings of discomfort in relation to another person's emotional expression triggering unprocessed material in the invalidator.