Meaning and Purpose: Why They Matter More Than Happiness
Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz. He lost his wife, his parents, and his brother in the camps. He was stripped of every material possession, subjected to...
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Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz. He lost his wife, his parents, and his brother in the camps. He was stripped of every material possession, subjected to...
Read Article →You’ve done the work. You understand the patterns now. The skills you developed in therapy have changed how you handle the situations that used to...
Read Article →Forty years ago, a researcher named Emmy Werner began publishing results from a longitudinal study that would change how psychologists think about adversity. She’d been...
Read Article →The journal has been sitting on your nightstand for six weeks. You open it occasionally, write a few sentences about how overwhelmed you feel, close...
Read Article →A client once described her decision to start therapy like this: “Nothing was catastrophically wrong. I just kept making the same choices and didn’t understand...
Read Article →“I’ve always been this way.” It’s a sentence that carries a particular weight when someone says it about their anxiety, their depression, their anger, their...
Read Article →After a presentation doesn’t go well, two colleagues debrief. One says: “I’m just not good at this. I always blank on the key points when...
Read Article →You’re sitting with a therapist describing a problem that’s been grinding at you for years, and at some point you say something like “I just...
Read Article →You’re lying awake at 2 a.m. replaying something that can’t be changed. A decision already made. A conversation that ended badly. A diagnosis you didn’t...
Read Article →Someone wronged you. Maybe it was recent, or maybe it happened years ago and still surfaces uninvited. Someone close to you gives you the advice...
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