6What Makes Me Happy, Healthy, and Alive? promotes awareness of the basic elements necessary for a wholesome life. It explores the idea of what we need to thrive, nudging us to look beyond the usual answers of food, water, fresh air, and exercise. Love, family, and community-along with finding ways to grow, create, contribute, feel safe, and have fun-are critical to truly thrive. What Makes Me Happy, Healthy, and Alive? ingrains in young children that all of us have basic needs and that it is okay to have, as well as fulfill, them.