Ideas on Mental Health & Meaning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Menacing or Meaningful?
Artificial Intelligence - AI - was once just a thing of movies and fiction. But, even then, I think we knew it was coming, and now it is here in a variety of forms. In this episode, Rabbi B. and Dr. D. from The Meaning Academy discuss the meaning potential of AI,...
Your Search for Meaning
Once again, this week, The Meaning Project Podcast is being taken over by The Meaning Academy Podcast. In this episode, Rabbi B. and I discuss the intricacies of Your Search for Meaning, and what you can do to live a meaningful, purposeful, and resilient life. The...
The Meaning of “The Man in the Arena”
President Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" speech is often used as motivational material - as an admonition to get out and "just do it", or to "dare greatly". In this episode of the podcast, Rabbi B. and I discuss this idea from a different perspective. Maybe...
Viktor Frankl’s Toughest Question
Dr. Viktor Franlk was known to be quite direct in his approach to helping people. Perhaps, some might even call his questioning to be a bit "harsh" at times. However, his results were unquestionably successful. In one of the darkest times in his country's history, he...
Stress and Existential Dynamics
I don't know about you, but some days I feel like STRESS should be added to the Tragic Triad to make a Tragic Square - Pain, Guilt, Suffering, and STRESS. The 4 things we will all have to deal with in our lives. This past week was particularly stressful for me - I'll...
Why is Spirituality Important?
Rabbi B., Dr. Baruch HaLevi, logotherapist, former Rabbi (once a Rabbi always a Rabbi?), and all-around good man, is someone I have the honor to have become friends with through our mutual work to share the wisdom of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, and the...
Find Meaning in Life Every Day
From what I've read, most podcasts don't make it past 10 episodes. And a large percentage aren't sharing weekly content. Thank you for giving me this opportunity - and the motivation and encouragement to go with it - in order to continue sharing these ideas on mental...
Why We Need a Meaning Academy
The more we talk about it, the more people seem to agree - there is an absence of meaning in modern life. We think something needs to be done about that. What better way to celebrate 99 episodes of The Meaning Project Podcast than with a chat with our friend, Rabbi...
Living a Truly Meaningful Life
There are three areas in life in which we can discover meaning - our creative values, our experiential values, and our attitudinal values. Terry Fossum lives a truly meaningful life. He's creative - you can see that in his storytelling and ideas in the book The Oxcart...
The Science of Personality Assessment
"Personality Assessments are Dumb...." Former guest of The Meaning Project Podcast, Matthew Lostaglia, issued a public challenge on social media - he threw down the gauntlet straight '30's style boxing... He came at me and said something like this, "I don't believe in...
Mental Health, Meaning, and Corrections
Part of my clinical work for the past 20 years has been incorporating mental health and logotherapy into theories and practice of substance abuse treatment. This has brought me close to the corrections industry - sometimes more commonly thought of as "jail" or...
Connecting to Your Soul
We talk quite a bit about the nöos, or the spirit or soul, in logotherapy. Dr. Frankl was the first theorist to suggest that humankind was more than just mind and body, but that we also had a "defiant human spirit". In this chat with clinical social worker, Debbie...