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Healing For Love
Healing for Love
A podcast for anyone who wants to stop shrinking, start healing, and grow into their most grounded, authentic self in love & life.
Hosted by Dr Gemma Gladstone — relationship coach, former clinical psychologist (25+ years), and expert in schema healing — this podcast offers thoughtful, insight-rich episodes to help you understand your patterns, heal from past emotional wounds, and gently rewrite your relationship template.
If you’ve ever felt stuck in familiar dynamics — seeking approval, fearing abandonment, dating narcissists or losing yourself in relationships — you’re not alone. Healing for Love is a space for self-reflection, emotional insight, and steady encouragement. Here, you’ll learn how to reconnect with your worth, trust your inner voice, and build relationships that support who you truly are.
This is for the woman who’s ready to feel more secure, more whole, and more herself — in love and in life.
Healing For Love
77. The Heart of the Matter: Understanding Our Core Emotional Needs
Welcome to another episode of The Good Mood Clinic Podcast!
In this episode we discuss core emotional needs and why they are so important for humans throughout our life. We are born into the world with needs and our emotional, social, physical and psychological well-being depends upon them. Our early care-givers are responsible for meeting our needs and as we grow and develop both ourselves and other people play a role in meeting emotional needs.
The needs discussed are:
- safety, stability & predictability
- secure, loving, nurturing bond (warmth, validation, ‘being seen’)
- autonomy & growing independence
- expression of emotions, needs, thoughts (allowance of authenticity)
- spontaneity, creativity & play
- realistic limits, self-discipline, impulse control
In schema therapy, early maladaptive schemas develop when these needs are not adequately met or are violated in some way.
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