A few days ago I was describing to a friend of mine what my experience of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) has...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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"...

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...

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

It seems obvious that, as in many professions, one wears a different hat as a counselor than when relating to people in a...

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

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

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...

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