Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.

I'm your host, Mikkel, and today we are talking about basic needs.

Hey guys, what's up?

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. So today we have a special

guest. My mom, Lisa Lewis, is joining us on the podcast today. But before we get into today's

topic, I want to read a listener review. This one is from Madeline B, and she wrote,

I started listening less than a week ago, and I am in love. It seriously has been a game changer.

She explains things so well and is so fun to listen to. Thank you so much for all your amazing advice.

10 out of 10 would recommend. Thank you, Madeline,

so much for that review. So today we are talking about basic needs. All right, Mom, so would

you mind telling us all a little bit about what are basic needs? Sure. So just by way of, I guess, kind of clarifying what I do, I'm a mental health therapist

and I actually work with a lot of teens and so when I have teens come into my office,

I talk with them about basic needs.

Specifically, I start with the physical needs. That would look like our need for food.

Like are we sufficiently fueling our bodies? Are we getting enough water? Our bodies are made

up of, I don't know if it's like 60 to 70 percent water. And so in order for our body to function

properly, we have to have enough water i talk with

them about exercise and also sleep and maybe we're going to get into the specifics of those later

but those are the the basic needs that i go over with people and also just basic health needs

and those basic health needs that might might look like, you know,

making sure you go to the doctor for regular checkups or if you take medications, making sure

you stay on top of that. That's some basic physical needs that we have. And I always start

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