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Healing from ME/CFS: The Value and Limitation of a Psychosomatic Approach
A few days ago I was describing to a friend of mine what my experience of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) has...

eudaimon
May 187 min read


An Experience with Psychotherapy
This is the story of the last psychotherapist I attempted to work with. It was some years ago in Athens. This psychotherapist had been...

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Mar 18, 20243 min read


That Creatures Great and Small are Free
This post makes an unusual argument that spells out a line of reasoning occurring first at an intuitive level. It is about free will and...

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Jun 7, 20233 min read


Desire for Love as Desire for Truth
Upon waking today, it occurred to me that I wanted to write a post about how what makes romantic love so often irresistible is that it...

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Mar 9, 20234 min read


Philosophy in the Old and New World
Earlier this week, while I was buying produce at the local farmer's market (laiki agora) in Kifissia, Athens, I stopped by a woman who...

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Aug 6, 20223 min read


The Soft Power of Being Oneself
It can be very hard to respect oneself when one admires other people who seem to find one lacking precisely because of one's...

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Jul 11, 20222 min read


What Does Gender Serve?
Among progressives, it is nowadays considered preferable to speak of gender identity as though it represented a primordial fact about...

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Feb 22, 20225 min read


The Uncertain World of Daydreams
One aspect of myself I’ve always been quite aware of, and often bashful about, is my tendency to lapse into daydreaming. When I am on my...

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Feb 7, 20223 min read


Eating for philosophical health
Talking about the nutritional content of food has never been as popular as it is today. We live in a world dominated by "nutrition nuts"...

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Jan 28, 20224 min read


Embracing Who We Unknowingly Are
Admiring other people is something we should be careful about doing. I believe we are not wary enough of it because we assume that our...

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Nov 17, 20215 min read


What We Do When We Play
When we play, we not only experience our greatest sense of liberation and joy, but also our creative power to make a world almost...

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Sep 5, 20192 min read


Is Counseling a Model For Relating?
It seems obvious that, as in many professions, one wears a different hat as a counselor than when relating to people in a...

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Aug 4, 20194 min read


Luminous Love
A fellow philosophical counselor has been mentioning Victor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning, to me for a while, so I finally...

eudaimon
Jul 28, 20194 min read


The Reality of Dreams
One thing I have been thinking about recently is the relationship of imagination to reality. Is what we imagine – in fantasies, dreams,...

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Apr 8, 20194 min read


The Gadfly and the Sluggish Horse
When we think about what it means to be “eudaimon,” it helps to keep the example of Socrates in mind. Socrates has been called the first...

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Mar 15, 20194 min read


Think Steadily as a Roman
“Meditation” is on everyone’s mouths today. I would venture that, throughout the urban and cosmopolitan first world, most non-senior...

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Mar 4, 20193 min read
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