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Personal Growth & Wellness Resources

The Small Glimmer of Resistance
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The Small Glimmer of Resistance

Sometimes healing begins in the most uncomfortable places — in that sharp flicker of resistance when someone challenges the way we’ve always seen ourselves or the world. I call it the small glimmer of “fuck you.” It’s not cruelty, but disruption, and often it’s the first crack in the walls we’ve built around our lives.

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Existentialism, Simply: How to Find Meaning When Life Has No Script
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Existentialism, Simply: How to Find Meaning When Life Has No Script

Frankl, the creator of Logotherapy, explains that survival is based on meaning and that the absence of meaning is attributed to the vast array of mental health concerns which individuals can experience, such as depression, anxiety and substance abuse. Fundamental elements of human existence involve pain, guilt and death or as Frankl termed it, the Tragic Triad . Logotherapy promotes that individuals embody a Tragic Optimism, that is, despite what they are faced with, their stance or attitude towards the experience can dramatically change their interpretation of the experience. An individual who struggles to embody this optimism instead suffers and becomes stuck in what Frankl termed as an Existential Vacuum

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“I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear myself.”

— Gabor Maté

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