“Just like children, our emotions heal when they are heard and validated.” ~Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey Chances are, your favorite moments with a good book include reading a sentence or a paragraph that expresses what you feel and makes you reach for a highlighter — as if the author put your own feelings into the right words. That’s validation. Likewise, I had lunch recently with a friend who’s a caring, first-rate conversationalist. She pays attention and listens with an open heart. As we talked, I shared my worries about a new medication my doctor had suggested for me. Coincidentally, my friend was…