Ideas on Mental Health & Meaning
Narcissism, Gaslighting, Bad Therapy, and Other Meaningful Pet Peeves
Narcissism, Narcissist, and "gaslighting" have gained an unwarranted amount of attention in the past few years - in this episode, I'll share my candid opinion about that, as well as "Bad Therapists" and other clinical pet peeves I've experienced in the past few years....
The Meaning of Freedom
Happy Independence Day! “Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”...
Homo Noeticus 2
I hope you were looking forward to this as much as I was. If you listened to Homo Noeticus 1, you know the author, Dr. Ann Graber, had a profound impact on my career and professional trajectory. I hope I honored her well with the recording of her speech from 2005 -...
Homo Noeticus 1
I've been meaning to share this with you for quite a while - probably since I started The Meaning Project Podcast. "Homo Noeticus" is the name Dr. Ann V. Graber gives to the potential evolution of humankind in her 2005 speech at the World Congress of Logotherapy,...
Purpose Summit 2022 – Recap
For those who follow along on social media - which I am not very good at, so don't feel compelled to follow along, but if you want to, I believe the links are on this page and on the website - for those of you who do, you know I attended The Purpose Summit 2022 at the...
Mental Health & Meaning in a Messy World
This conversation with Rabbi B. started with me saying, "B., I'm getting calls to come talk about Mental Health & Meaning from places I never would've expected it - construction, manufacturing, business... People are struggling." And so it went. That's the funny...
Memorial Day & The Meaning in Military Service
Today we celebrate Memorial Day in the US - the unofficial start to summer - more importantly, the day we remember those who sacrificed their lives in military service. My good friend, Chief (retired) Paul shares his experience in the military - what led to his...
The Meaning of Money
Money. Little green, or other-colored, pieces of paper. Numbers and decimals on a screen. Simple, as an object. But money has so much more emotional connotation - it represents work we've done, and opportunity ahead of us. It is ripe with the potential for meaning....
Trauma & Resilience – Surviving and Healing from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Manya Chylinski was at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013 when the bombs went off. She was fortunate to suffer minimal physical damage. But the mental/emotional trauma she suffered last far longer than she expected. Fortunately, even though she didn't know...
Resilience – A Reflection on the Life and Work of Dr. Steven Southwick
I often speak of turning suffering into achievement in my logotherapy work - one way to do this is by becoming more RESILIENT. Training to be more resilient will actually help you to 'bounce back' from difficult times, and to weather traumatic events in a healthier...
Existential Dynamics & Therapist Break-downs
We've all been having a rough few years here, haven't we? It finally caught up with me in the past few weeks and I actually missed a week of posting a podcast. The podcast was actually done and recorded, but life and work caught up with me, and had me running around...
Leading with Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
I always get a little skeptical when standard behaviors for healthy humans become buzzwords - especially when those buzzwords seem somewhat politically motivated or forced in a way that causes the concepts to lose meaning. I've been curious about the "Diversity,...