by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Feb 13, 2023 | Management, Meaning, Mental Health, Military Service, PTSD
Retirement can often lead to the dreaded “Existential Vacuum” if we are not prepared to take meaningful action after the end of the job. Navy Chief Petty Officer (Retired) Joseph Paul and I have been friends for quite a while, so we typically have quite a...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Feb 6, 2023 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, PTSD
There are Narcissists among us. But maybe not as many as you think. And most of us shouldn’t be throwing around that label as casually as we are – and we CERTAINLY shouldn’t be “researching” it (ie. Doctor Google & WebMD) it online!...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Aug 15, 2022 | Anxiety, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, PTSD, Uncategorized, Wellness
That’s right, The Meaning Project Podcast is BACK!!! It seems like we have been an experiencing increasing rates of anxiety and trauma, post-COVID. A recent statistic I read suggests “90% of people will face some kind of trauma in their life.” In...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | May 16, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, PTSD, Wellness
Manya Chylinski was at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013 when the bombs went off. She was fortunate to suffer minimal physical damage. But the mental/emotional trauma she suffered last far longer than she expected. Fortunately, even though she...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | May 9, 2022 | Affair Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Meaning, Mental Health, Military Service, PTSD
I often speak of turning suffering into achievement in my logotherapy work – one way to do this is by becoming more RESILIENT. Training to be more resilient will actually help you to ‘bounce back’ from difficult times, and to weather traumatic...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Feb 28, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Podcast, PTSD, Wellness
Rabbi B. and I collaborating again! In this episode of the podcast, we discuss one of the most famous anecdotes from the life of Viktor Frankl and how you can apply it to your life. When Dr. Frankl was escorted to the Nazi concentration camps of WWII, he carried one...
