Emotional invalidation can make you feel like expressing your needs is a relational luxury, not the non-negotiable it really ...

In childhood and adult relationships, love is shown with the five A's: attention, affection, appreciation, acceptance, and allowing.

Consider basic survival needs like water, air, food, and shelter. Meeting these physical needs means you can stay alive, but it takes more to give life meaning. You can’t see or touch things like ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will be developed to examine the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social ...

When you’re building a budget, one of the first pieces of advice experts will give is to divide your expenses into your “wants” and “needs” and base your spending on certain percentages of each. But ...

Abraham Maslow believed that human needs had a hierarchy. Survival needs were the base needs, while “loftier” goals were closer to the top. The idea is that survival needs must be satisfied as a ...

Part of my practice in psychotherapy is working with individuals who are struggling with anxiety or depression caused by circumstances in their lives. We often work together for 8 to 12 weeks until ...