The Need To Belong

The Richard Nicholls Mental Health Podcast

Richard Nicholls

Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Health & Fitness, Wellbeing, Education, Anxiety, Happiness, Self-improvement, Depression, Self Help, Psychology, Alternative Health, Counseling, Counselling

4.8 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Send us a text Many people feel a need to be unique, to be different from everyone else but that shouldn’t be at the expense of our sense of belonging. If we’re missing belongingness in our life then we can often feel as if we’re insignificant, unimportant and may as well crawl under a rock to die. Sure, be different, your life is your own, and any self esteem boost you get from your uniqueness can be used to help you recognise that actually, we’re all different, we’re all unique. Social Medi...

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0:00.0	And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development
0:08.6	podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.
0:16.5	I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 161.
0:22.1	It's titled The Need to Belong.
0:25.6	And if you're ready, we'll start the show.
0:30.9	Happy September.
0:32.9	Summer's over, folks.
0:35.0	The kids are going back to school.
0:37.1	The traffic's going to snarl back up again and
0:39.9	before you know it, it'll be Christmas. Hurrah! Sounds like I'm wishing my life away a bit, but
0:45.8	you know, time does move pretty quickly. Life can pass you by if you don't pay attention to it.
0:52.0	I was on holiday for two weeks in August and when I got
0:55.4	back to work on Tuesday, I said to my wife, oh, it feels like we've been away forever. Not because it
1:00.6	drags, but because we did so much that was different. I wouldn't normally go on a zip wire on a Wednesday
1:10.6	afternoon across a canyon in Croatia. I wouldn't normally
1:13.9	swim under a waterfall in a national park. And I'd never have been able to make the time to read
1:20.3	four books. Four books. I read books, proper books. Fiction books, too, not books on psychological
1:27.3	theories or mental health.
1:28.7	Nope, four fiction, entertaining and immersive books.
1:33.7	I just wouldn't normally make the time to do that.
1:36.5	So, even though I was only away from my clients and from you for a few weeks, it felt like ages.
1:44.6	And I think what helps here is the novelty of it.
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