Below are some suggestions for Healthy Adult ways of getting your emotional needs met (a useful reminder for anyone):
‣ Validating my feelings and needs
‣ Expressing my needs to people I trust
‣ Asking “What would a healthy parent do for a young child?”
‣ Developing relationships with honesty, self-directedness, and genuineness
‣ Confidence building through praising my efforts and responding with self-compassion
‣ Respond with kindness, empathy and understanding to difficulties, feelings and needs in the context of my experiences
‣ Striving for a balance between pleasant adult activities (intellectual/cultural/physical) and social obligations
‣ Showing respect for my body
‣ Experiencing my body and mind as integrated parts of myself
‣ Trying to enhance helpful, Healthy Adult behaviours (sustaining a job, taking responsibility, connecting to others)
‣ Setting realistic goals and moral principles
