by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Mar 14, 2021 | Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Wellness, Work / Career
I was recommended to read Humankind: A Hopeful History by Pam Roy, co-founder of the Viktor Frankl Institute of America. The book takes a positive, and sometimes meaningful, approach to the question of human nature, and whether humankind is inherently good or evil. ...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Feb 21, 2021 | Affair Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth
I never really liked that word in my counseling practice, “broken”. It would seem to indicate that we all need to be “fixed” – or, worse, maybe that we can’t be “fixed”. Perhaps “damaged” fits better in my...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Feb 7, 2021 | Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Uncategorized
Did you catch “The Big Game” this weekend? Full disclosure, I’m writing this article well in advance of the game, so I don’t know what’s going to happen, or what DID happen, by the time you read this. But I am looking forward to...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 31, 2021 | Management, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Wellness, Work / Career
Are you possessed by your work? Or, another way I’ve heard this asked lately – “are you a slave to your own internal Pharaoh (or master)?” Obviously taken from a bit of Biblical reading. But the question seems to come from a lot of different...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 10, 2021 | Management, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Substance Abuse, Wellness, Work / Career
We are all unique and special individuals, with a specific task, or tasks, we are born to accomplish, ideally for the benefit of others and the transcendence of ourselves. We can begin that task by asking what life is asking of us, rather than what we should get from...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 3, 2021 | Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Work / Career
We are four days in to the new year. Is it as different from the old year as you had hoped? If not. What are you doing about it? We can discover new meaning in our lives in a variety of ways – through engaging in creative acts of work or beauty; through...
