Questions have an amazing ability to disrupt toxic thought patterns and widen perspectives. Here are 17 really useful solution-focused questions you can use with clients.
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The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Challenge
What can a lack of meaningful creative challenge do to people? Part seven in this series explores the detrimental effects of this unfulfilled need.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Status
Wanting to be recognized can easily morph from a need to a demanding, all-consuming greed. So why is the drive for status so strong?
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Connection
Part five in the series explores our innate human desire for a sense of community and how it can work against us.
Treating the Yo-Yo Dieter
Help your clients reach a stable, sustainable weight with these five techniques.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Intimacy
Part four in the series explores how the need for love and intimacy can lead to stalking, accepting abuse and impossible relationships.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Control
Part three of the series explores the need for control and how it can betray us when it is met in unhealthy ways.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Safety
Part two of the series explores the inherent human need to feel safe and secure and shows how it can lead those desperate enough into unsafe situations.
How to Spot and Treat Emotional Eating
Emotional eating is a pattern that can be learned in childhood or develop when our human needs are not being met. Here are five ways to disrupt this unhealthy pattern.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Attention
Why do otherwise rational human beings do crazy things? This series on the dark side of human emotional needs seeks to answer just this question, and to show you how you can use this understanding to help your clients, enrich the lives of those around you, and, most importantly, make sure you are meeting your own needs.
