What Are Your Emotional Needs?
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.
The Safety of Sadness
Everyone of us has experienced sadness at some point in their life, often when something we cared for is lost to us – a person, a pet, a part of our life, a part of ourselves even.
These events can very easily move us off balance, cause a feeling of sadness and in more significant cases a prolonged depression of mood and motivation. As painful as these periods can be, it is helpful to understand something of why our bodies react in this way.
This place of stuckness can be unbelievably painful for people. But with the right support, people can find their way out, to reengage with life and the fullness of what it has to offer - and what they have to offer it.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 - Loneliness
Everyone’s personality is a collection of parts, parts formed and shaped by the many roles we play in ‘The Act of Living’. One of the common principles across the many forms of therapy is that an integrated personality is representative of good health. Hypnotherapy can help people to reconnect with problematic parts of their personality so they can enjoy a sense of wholeness and inner harmony.
Why do we have emotions?
Emotions, we all have them. At best they can be life-affirming, and at worst, torturous and confusing. But why, what’s their purpose? It’s a reasonable question for anyone to ask, especially someone struggling emotionally.