Summary: What are needs? At a basic level, they are simple things like food, water, shelter, sleep. They can also be more complicated, like friendship, personal accomplishment, and sense of purpose. Sometimes it can be difficult to meet these needs, or to even know what they are. Join me today while I discuss needs and how to meet them in all aspects of your life.<br> <br> <br> <br> In this episode I discuss: <br> <br> What are your needs and how to figure that out <br> Understanding your relationship to 'your needs' and 'the needs of others' <br> Communal vs Individual cultures<br> What we learn about needs from our culture, our family, and how gender bias impacts our view on meeting our needs<br> Addressing needs in a relationship, expressing needs<br> Meeting the needs of others, how do we show up for this<br> <br> <br> <br> All the fun links you might enjoy <br> <br> Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs">wikipedia</a>)<br> <a href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/podcastplaylists/">Podcast playlist</a><br> Think the best of me: <a href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/hard-and-awesome-let-go-of-ego/">Hard and awesome</a><br> <a href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/115-controlling-mom-or-capable-mom/">Capable or controlling</a><br> <a href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/marriage-expectations-love-languages-coach/">My husband put the groceries away wrong</a>, he doesn’t love me<br> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/simpleonpurpose.ca/">Instagram </a><br> Simple Saturdays Email (<a href="https://intentional.simpleonpurpose.ca/simplesaturdays">sign up here</a>)<br> <a href="mailto:shawna@simpleonpurpose.ca">Email me here</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Sign up for the the <a href="https://intentional.simpleonpurpose.ca/simplesaturdays">Simple Saturdays email</a> (a fun email, twice a month)<br> <br> Email me <a href="mailto:shawna@simpleonpurpose.ca">here </a><br> <br> Follow me on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/simpleonpurpose.ca/">Instagram</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> FULL TRANSCRIPT (unedited)<br> <br> Hey friends, it's Shawna, your nerdy girlfriend and counselor from simple on purpose.ca. Welcome, welcome back to the podcast. Or maybe Welcome back to me, because it seemed that I was on a hiatus from sharing new episodes. And what happened is I had an episode ready to go. And I didn't post it. The other week, I shared this in the simple Saturdays email that I had just decided the content wasn't right. And sometimes this happens, sometimes, I'll go through the whole process of drafting up an episode, maybe even recording it and just deciding it's not the right content, not the right time, too much too little, that kind of thing. So now I'm back in the recording chair, which just a normal chair. But what I found is that I had to really listen to myself and give myself permission to not post that and take the risk that there wouldn't be this consistent content, which is always what we're told, we need to be doing sharing consistent content. And the reality is that it took me a while to get back to because my days are pretty full. And I was also sick for a while. As I was trying to get a new episode done, I was observing the sense of overwhelming me. And I was taking stock of what I'm doing with my days, versus what I'm expecting myself to do with my days. And I'm realizing that I am taking on more and more clients, and spending so much more time in those one on one sessions and in research for the sessions. That is time that in the past, I would easily spend researching and recording podcast episodes, I had time to do draft episodes and episodes that just never made the cut. Because that's the amount of time I have for that. This is a season for me,
