Posts Tagged ‘Viktor Frankl’

Re-Reading the Story of Depression’s Meaning

Written by john on September 6th, 2009
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There are no more beautiful and moving stories of healing than those told by Rachel Naomi Remen. Kitchen Table Wisdom is one of those books I come back to again and again. Each of its brief stories renders a moment of discovery that reveals a life’s meaning to [...]

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Changing Belief, Discovering Purpose in a Work Life

Written by john on April 9th, 2009
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Following the last post, I need to expand on the idea of changing the mindset of recovery to that of finding purpose for the future. Just as I could undo the belief in my perpetual illness, I could also undo the belief that there had been little meaning or [...]

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Recovery, Well-Being and Purpose

Written by john on April 5th, 2009
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It occurs to me that recovery is past, well-being is now and purpose is the future. Let me explain.
Recently, I wrote about recovery as a concept I no longer wanted to apply to what I’ve been going through. The word carried a set of assumptions that kept me within [...]

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