Just as we need air to breathe and water to drink, we also have distinct emotional needs. If these needs are not met or are imbalanced, just as a lack of food would risk starvation, our health tends to suffer.

And yet, as obvious as this may seem, when it comes to our mental health, these needs can be overlooked, instead the focus all too often is on the resulting symptoms, anxiety, panic, depression – to name a few.