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Understanding your emotional needs.
A practical, accessible guide to emotional needs, innate resources and finding a healthier balance.
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A useful way to understand what may be happening
Sometimes distress makes more sense when we look at what has been under pressure.
Our emotional needs include security, connection, privacy, choice, belonging, recognition, achievement, attention and meaning. When several of these needs are restricted or stretched for too long, it can affect how we feel, think and respond.
The Human Givens framework offers one useful lens rather than a diagnosis. The guide can help you notice what feels supported, what may be missing and where one small, realistic change could begin.
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Explore the emotional needs approach.
Three short introductions to emotional needs, the Emotional Needs Audit and the role sleep can play in our mental health.
Human Givens
Using the HG Emotional Needs Audit
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