by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Feb 2, 2020 | Affair Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships
“But I just want to be happy – why can’t that just be easier?” That was the statement from my teenage daughter during one of “those” discussions about life, the future, responsibility, success, etc. I feel for her. It can’t...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 26, 2020 | Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships, Spirituality, Substance Abuse, Wellness
In our stressed-out, 80-hour work week, 5-hours of sleep per night, skip meals, work smarter not harder, hyper-connected, teched out world, we’ve recently started to hear more about “self-care” – the idea of taking time for yourself. As a...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 20, 2020 | Affair Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth
Anxiety, Depression, Bi-polar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Eating Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism, Dementia, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. All very different mental illnesses with one thing in common: they have defined...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 12, 2020 | Affair Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health
“I cannot” – that’s readily said, so quickly and so easily, it hardly requires a thought, only a motion of the tongue. And a possibility is dead. How would it have been, if it had stayed alive? Would it have made the unexpected...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 5, 2020 | Anxiety, Depression, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health
We are almost a week into the new year – a time where many of us are still pushing hard to move forward with those big resolutions, or maybe reviewing where we may need to adjust our goals. Everyday life isn’t always about “The Big Goal”,...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Dec 15, 2019 | Affair Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth
“The ought is the ethical directive, how our personal conscience tells us to act in response to the meaning of the moment, to make us aware that what we feel deep within us is most meaningful. If the “want” is the result of our will to meaning, it...
