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 | Aug 8, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Uncategorized
We live in an age of affluence in many respects. The mass media bombard us with stimuli and we have to protect ourselves against them by filtering them, as it were. We are offered a lot of possibilities and have to make our choice among them. In short, we have to make...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jul 18, 2022 | Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Uncategorized
In the 1969 book The Will to Meaning, Dr. Frankl discusses his views on using medication to treat “endogenous”, or physically manifested, depression, suggesting that in some situations, medication or even ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, might be warranted....
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Nov 29, 2021 | Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Uncategorized
In a world where “meta” represents an altered reality aimed at re-inventing or perhaps evening replacing our current reality, somewhat like that in “Ready Player One” (GREAT book, terrifying reality), Rabbi B. and get a little meta-physical and...
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 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
