"Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs and Claim Your Sovereignty" by Mara Glatzel
Dec 22, 2023
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Mara Glatzel discusses the importance of acknowledging and prioritizing our needs for fulfillment and self-care. She emphasizes the transformative power of tending to our needs and the need to shift from working on ourselves to working with ourselves and advocating for our needs.
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Acknowledging and valuing our needs allows us to lead more fulfilling and sustainable lives.
Self-care involves healing our relationship with ourselves, prioritizing our own needs, and divesting from oppressive systems.
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Embracing the Reality of Needs
Needs are an integral part of being human, not weaknesses or moral failures. Belonging is also a need, and we should not sacrifice our needs to fit in. Understanding the distinction between needs and wants, such as hunger and specific food preferences, allows us to prioritize our needs. By acknowledging and valuing our needs, and integrating them into all aspects of our lives, we can lead more fulfilling and sustainable lives.
Responsive Self-Care vs. Prescriptive Self-Care
True self-care goes beyond surface-level practices. It involves healing our relationship with ourselves and focusing on genuine nourishment. Rather than adhering to prescribed self-care trends, we should turn inward and actively care for ourselves with small, imperfect actions. Unlearning societal and familial beliefs, as well as divesting from oppressive systems, is necessary to prioritize our own needs and overcome self-abandonment.
From Self-Alignment to Self-Partnership
We often seek a perfect plan or external validation in our personal growth journey, thinking that we need to fix ourselves. However, embracing imperfections and discomfort is key to self-trust. Shifting from self-alignment to self-partnership means recognizing that slow, incremental changes in our relationship with ourselves are powerful. Taking radical self-responsibility, asking ourselves what we truly need, and honoring those needs lead to self-acceptance and a deeply satisfying life.
To close out the week, we called up Mara Glatzel to share her unique approach to identifying, honoring, and advocating for the most tender and true parts of yourself that yearn to be acknowledged.
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