by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Apr 10, 2023 | Logotherapy, Meaning, Mental Health
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,...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Apr 3, 2023 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, Work / Career
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...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Mar 27, 2023 | Anxiety, Depression, Management, MBTI Certified, Meaning, Mental Health
“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...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Mar 20, 2023 | Meaning, Mental Health, Substance Abuse
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...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Mar 13, 2023 | Anxiety, Depression, Logotherapy, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Spirituality
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...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Mar 6, 2023 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, PTSD
Jess Michaels is an Epstein survivor who struggled with the physical symptoms of sexual assault for over 25 years – culminating in Adrenal Fatique Syndrome; until her involvement with the families of Sandy Hook reawakened her trauma and forced her to make...