Video Number 9... Our Emotional Needs for a sense of Meaning and Purpose in our lives. Viktor Frankl the famous Austrian Psychologist who wrote of his survival through Auschwitz in his book Man's Search for Meaning said this, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” It is through being challenged by life’s circumstances that we are stretched and find

Video Number 8 is our Emotional Need for Privacy. Our need for Privacy is about having enough time and space to uninterruptedly reflect on, to learn from, and to consolidate our experiences. Having Privacy, space, and time to do this properly helps us reference our experiences in life and to extract the wisdom from them, and store them as motivating memories. In our frantic, social, and media-driven attention-grabbing world such privacy is becoming an increasingly scarce comm

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Video Number 6 is our Emotional Need for Status Our Emotional need for a sense of Status in our family relationships, our jobs, or profession, our social groups, and our community is intricately linked to our sense of Identity. It dates back to our evolutionary journey where we first formed up into tribes in order to collaborate for the greater good of our combined survival. Today it still affects our emotional wellbeing... this video explains why. https://www.peakpersonalper

Video Number 5 is our Emotional Need for Community This need for belonging to a community is and has been essential to our survival and our evolution as a species. We evolved and survived as a species, a group of animals because the harsh conditions we found ourselves in and grew through, depended upon us being part of a collaborative team - back in our hunter-gatherer days - traditionally our Tribe. In our modern lives, our tribes are many and varied, but we still receive co

Video Number 4 is our Emotional Need for Intimacy. Our next primary emotional need is the need for Intimacy. Do we have at least one significant relationship in our lives with another person who accepts us unconditionally, for all of our great qualities, and some of our more quirky personality traits, unconditionally and without judgment. Can we foster and develop this type of relationship with others and develop a close, trusted, and emotionally intimate relationship where w

Video Number 3 is Our Emotional Need for Attention. The next Emotional Need we are exploring is our need for Attention. This is our need to feel able to give attention to those people and events that are important to us, and also to benefit from the nutritional effect that we experience when someone values and respects us and pays attention to us. When we pay attention to others we give the gift of respect and help to feed their sense of value and self-esteem. When we receive

Video Number 2 is our Emotional Need for Autonomy The next one of our Emotional Needs is the need for a sense of Autonomy. The feeling of having control of our decision-making processes and the freedom to choose our for ourselves the processes we use to achieve our desired outcomes in life. It is important for us to feel that we are in control of our ability to choose our responses to the circumstances that show up in our lives, and not to feel overwhelmed by life. https://ww

Video Number 1 is our Emotional need for Security One of our primary emotional needs is the need for security. If we feel we have a safe place, a safe territory, in our environment where we feel secure, we're able to function without being emotionally distressed. However, if we do not feel secure in our environment, and there's a lot of cues in our environment at the moment with the Covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions we all face, that challenge our sense of security. If w