The greatest expression of happiness is the desire to play. Playfulness means being willing to surprise and be surprised; it means having some sense of self...

It seems obvious that, as in many professions, one wears a different hat as a counselor than when relating to people in a non-professional capacity, i.e. in ...

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

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

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 political philosophe...

“Meditation” is on everyone’s mouths today. I would venture that, throughout the urban and cosmopolitan first world, most non-senior adults have now either ...