The Sun Shines at the Bottom of the Universe

Anyone who has ever been involved with an emotionally unavailable person, or something where they have been taken advantage of at best, or at worst, abused, is that in the top two needs there was always pursuing acknowledgment, recognition, power, status, achievement. So this was a real revelation to me, seeing this in exercise after exercise after exercise. And people were often really uncomfortable with acknowledging that they prioritise seeking power and status because we don't like to see ourselves in this way. But all humans care about those things because they are all part of the spectrum of our emotional needs - but prioritizing these more so than others blocks us from experience and intimacy,. It also causes us to exaggerate