invalidation Archives

What would happen

October 3, 2025 by Craig Dial

Close up of a human ear, with a small mouth near it, as if whispering directly into the ear.

Can you stop listening to the voice inside your head that criticizes and invalidates you? Tell it to pipe down.

You’ve probably told yourself you did something “wrong” already this week. Perhaps even today. It’s a word that gets used fairly often. Wrong is typically the opposite of “right,” sometimes the opposite of “correct” or “proper.” It’s “just” a word, so why talk about it? Meaning All words carry meaning beyond their dictionary definitions. “Wrong” … Read more

Correcting Lenses

August 26, 2025August 13, 2025 by Craig Dial

A pair of glasses being held up in front of an eye chart. You can see through the lenses to the shapes and letters clearly. The rest of the chart outside the lenses is blurry.

your correcting lenses invalidate others, and make them “incorrect.” That’s a terrible place to put another human being.