by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Nov 15, 2021 | Anxiety, Depression, Management, Meaning, Mental Health, Uncategorized
Not really… rejection is not fun. It hurts. But it can make us better. Let me tell you more about it, and my failure:...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Nov 8, 2021 | Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Relationships
Even counselors need counseling from time to time – well, at least the good ones do, and I would like to consider myself in that group of “good”, or maybe even “effective”. But, honestly, sometimes it’s hard for a therapist to find...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Nov 1, 2021 | Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Uncategorized
My first foray into Tragic Optimism, and the story of Dr. Long. You’ll probably hear a lot of Dr. Long’s story, and others like it, in The Meaning Project, but this was my first taste of it. On Tragic Optimism – Logotherapy Lecture 5
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Oct 25, 2021 | Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth
One of the first papers where I start to divine out (get it?) the academic differences between religious and spiritual. You might be able to tell that prior to this work, I instinctively knew there was a difference, but I didn’t quite have the vocabulary or...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Oct 18, 2021 | Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth
I was supposed to write about “Ultimate Meaning” here, but continued my assessment from the previous discussion and shared a little bit more of my amazement for these “wonderful tools” that I was learning to use to help people. I believe this is the first...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Oct 11, 2021 | Mental Health, Personal Growth, Podcast
Just the heck was a “Weltanschauung” and how do you cure it? It’s really not that bad – it’s German for “World View” – this lecture goes a bit into it, and the early findings in Frankl’s Logotherapy, including a primer on the Three Pillars of...
