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

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

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

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 adu...