Therapy Tails - 55 Pt 2 - Measuring Full-Fillment

(please note these episodes are recorded chats in Starbucks so may have more background noise than a usual podcast)

Dawn Walton, a human therapist, and Jess Probst, a dog behaviourist talk about Dawn's approach to measuring how full-filled we are in life using a sort of emotional meter system. She represents this in coloured liquids in test tubes in a test tube rack. The idea is that we may struggle to feel fulfilled or even happy in life if one or more of the meters is too low. Dawn defines these meters as:

• Be Loved / feel loveable
• Feel secure / stable
• Have fun in your life
• Feel connected
• Feel attractive
• Be able to connect with like minded people who are on the same level as you

We need to be aware that:

a. We have a meter that is not full enough

b. We can find a way of filling it

c. It is not realistic to expect one person e.g. a partner, to fill all our meters. We are responsible for spotting that they are low