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...
Meaning is at the heart of existential therapy: being born into the world without predetermined meaning, and creating (or failing to create) personal meaning as we go through life. A maxim of existential philosophy is “existence precedes essence,” from Jean-Paul...
A Brainspotting therapy session starts with identifying the issue you want to work on. It may be a long-ago memory or a recent experience, an emotion, a thought, an image, a physical sensation, or something else. You don’t need to focus on a distressing memory; any...
I became an existentialist in high school. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing, just that I was caught up in what the point of being alive was. That question and similar ones (“Why are humans the way we are?” “Am I real?”) drove me for the next 20 years. Then, when...
The neuroscientific foundation of Brainspotting is based on functions in areas of the brain below the prefrontal cortex, partly in the limbic system. This part of the brain is crucial in processing emotions, including ones related to difficult experiences and traumas....
