4 – What Do You Need? (For Women)

For many women, this simple question can feel surprisingly difficult to answer. What do you need?

Years of caring for others, striving, giving, and meeting expectations can leave us disconnected from our own needs, desires, and boundaries. This teaching invites you to reconnect with what nourishes you, explore the importance of honoring your own needs, and discover that caring for yourself is not selfish—it is an essential part of reclaiming your life.

Part of the (RMIS) Reclaim Me™ Introduction Series for women

Transcript

Greetings and welcome to today's video from the Reclaim Me Introduction Series. What do you need? For many women. This is one of the hardest questions to answer. What do you need? Not what everyone else needs. Not what needs to get done. Not what others expect from you. Simply, What do you need? If that question feels uncomfortable for you, Know that you're not alone. Many of us. Were taught to pay attention to the needs of others before our own. We learned to be helpful. Responsible. Giving. And wow those qualities. Are beautiful. They can also leave us disconnected from ourselves. Those qualities can be admirable. But it can cause us to abandon ourselves. When we are repeatedly ignored. By ourselves, Where we ignore our own needs. We begin to feel pleaded. Sometimes resentful. Other times overwhelmed. Maybe even invisible. And it's not because we are weak. Or that something is wrong with us. It's because we are human beings. We get tired. We become overwhelmed. We can become angry. Or resentful. We can just get fed up. Because we are human. Allow. That truth. To just be with you for a moment. And as it is with you. Just breathe. Allow your shoulders even to soften a little bit. And if it feels okay. Ask yourself. What? Am I needing more of right now? Allow yourself to just be honest with you. Allow it to come from that deep place of truthfulness. And not expectation or obligation or duty. From that place. Of knowing. What is true. Perhaps you need rest. Maybe it's support. Maybe it's just some space. Maybe you're in need of joy or connection. Peace. Or permission. Trust whatever arises. Because there is no need to fix anything in this moment. You're being invited just to acknowledge it. And now I'm gonna invite you just to ask yourself. What is one? Small way. That you could honor yourself. Honor what you need. This week. Personalize it. What is one small way I could honor? That need this week. Remember reclaiming yourself. Does not necessarily begin with a dramatic or a drastic change. It begins with small acts of self-honoring. And I'm inviting you. To honor you. Small moments of listening. Small moments of choosing yourself. The truth is. . . That your needs are not burdens. Your needs are not selfish. Your needs are a part of what makes you human. For today's reflection. I invite you to just explore the questions. What need have I been trying to earn permission? To have. What need have I? Than trying to earn permission. To have. Because sometimes we feel that we have to earn it. I have to earn the right to rest. I have to earn it to give myself permission to take it easy. Thank you so much for joining me today. And may you continue learning that your needs. Matter. Because you matter. You have a right. To have need. And you have a right. To have them met. Thank you and bye-bye for now.