Cover of The Person Who Needs Validation by Elia Sal
Identity & Self-Worth

The Person Who Needs Validation

Healing the Need for Approval, and the Inner Approval Method for Sourcing Your Own Worth

There is a particular way of moving through the world in which you are never quite sure you are all right until someone else tells you so.
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Why this book exists

A focused place to understand what is happening

The Person Who Needs Validation is a compassionate, research-informed self-development book for readers navigating self-worth & validation. It helps you understand the pattern beneath the struggle, meet it with less shame, and use clear reflection and practical exercises to move towards approval, and the inner approval method for sourcing your own worth.

The writing is designed to reduce shame, bring the underlying pattern into view and give you practical ways to respond without pretending that every life follows the same formula.

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