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Augustin Kendall

Existential Anxiety: The Opportunity for Agency

Existential Anxiety: The Opportunity for Agency

Existential anxiety is a result of our own freedom to make choices, our responsibility for ourselves, the inherent meaninglessness of life, and the inevitability of death. Existential dread is another term for this type of anxiety, which differs from what we generally...
A Big List of Mental Health Resources

A Big List of Mental Health Resources

Here’s a non-comprehensive collection of info about therapy modalities I use. You’ll also find lots of mental health resources, some specific to the types of folks I often work with and a couple more general support sections at the end. Internal Family Systems...
Situated Freedom in Existential Therapy: Ethics and Oppression

Situated Freedom in Existential Therapy: Ethics and Oppression

In a previous article about existential freedom, I mentioned that the principle of freedom grounds everything else in existential therapy. And it does, but let’s be real: many of us don’t have as much freedom as we want. Freedom is often limited in some way or...
Freedom in Existential Therapy: The Burden of Choice

Freedom in Existential Therapy: The Burden of Choice

Freedom drives all other existential concepts. Existential psychology holds that we are all born into the world with the freedom to shape our path through life. Rather than handing over decisions to religion, family, cultural norms and expectations, or some other...
Existential Authenticity: The Project of Becoming Yourself

Existential Authenticity: The Project of Becoming Yourself

Existential authenticity is the ongoing process of living in harmony with what we know to be most true about ourselves, our values, and our clear-eyed sense of reality. To do this, you’ll need to understand your beliefs, desires, needs, and personality traits. You can...