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Learning to Swim: Salutogenesis and Why Meaning Keeps Us Afloat
Aaron Antonovsky asked a question most of us never think to ask. Not what makes people ill, but what keeps them well. His answer was the sense of coherence, and at the heart of it sat meaning. A reflection on the river none of us can leave, the three things that help us swim through it, and why meaning is the one that keeps us afloat.
Logos: An Ancient Word for a Very Modern Problem
A few years ago I asked someone what they thought the secret to happiness was. Their answer was surprisingly simple: “Find your logos and follow it.” That conversation led me into one of the most fascinating ideas in philosophy, psychology, and human meaning-making. What does logos actually mean, and why does it still matter today?
Love Without Agenda: Coaching as an Act of Care
An exploration of coaching, presence, attention, humanistic psychology, care, dignity, and why meaningful coaching is often less about fixing people and more about accompanying them honestly.
When the Broken Becomes Beautiful: Kintsugi, Kintsukuroi and the Hidden Architecture of Change.
An exploration of Kintsugi, Kintsukuroi, narrative identity, meaning, psychological growth, and how suffering and fracture can become part of a more honest and integrated life.
The Courage to Be Kind: When it’s difficult is when it matters
An exploration of kindness, compassion, empathy, leadership, emotional resilience, and why genuine kindness often requires more courage than simple niceness or generosity.
Eudaimonia and Post-Traumatic Growth: Why the Best Version of You Might Need the Difficulty You’re Going Through
We live in a culture designed to remove discomfort as quickly as possible. But what if some forms of growth can only happen at the edge of what feels safe? Exploring post-traumatic growth, Aristotle's concept of eudaimonia, and why meaning often emerges through the challenges we would never have chosen.
Paradoxical Intention: The Surprisingly Useful Art of Leaning Into What You Fear
What if the exhausting part isn’t the fear itself, but the energy we spend trying to avoid it?
An exploration of paradoxical intention, Viktor Frankl, anticipatory anxiety, and the strange freedom that can emerge when we stop organising our lives around hiding what feels most exposed.
The Existential Vacuum: Why Capable People Feel Empty Despite Everything
An exploration of Viktor Frankl’s idea of the existential vacuum, and why capable, successful people can still experience emptiness, disconnection, and a loss of meaning despite outward achievement.
Ontological Coaching: Working With Who You Are, Not Just What You Do
An exploration of ontological coaching, meaning based coaching, narrative identity, and why lasting change often requires more than behaviour change alone.
Digital Distraction and the Slow Erosion of an Inner Life
An exploration of digital distraction, dopamine, the attention economy, and the slow erosion of reflection, stillness, and inner life in modern culture.
The Difference Between Coaching for Goals and Coaching for Meaning
An exploration of the difference between goal focused coaching and meaning based coaching, and why achievement alone does not always create fulfilment, direction, or a sense of aliveness.
Kierkegaard Was Right: Freedom Is Terrifying. What We Do With That Says Everything
An exploration of Søren Kierkegaard’s idea of the dizziness of freedom, existential anxiety, responsibility, uncertainty, and why real freedom can feel psychologically overwhelming.
The Sunday Scaries Are Not an Anxiety Problem. They’re a Meaning Problem
An exploration of the Sunday scaries, Viktor Frankl’s idea of Sunday neurosis, existential emptiness, burnout, meaning, and why dread is sometimes pointing toward misalignment rather than simply anxiety.
The Loneliness Epidemic: Hiding Inside Busy Lives
An exploration of modern loneliness, emotional disconnection, vulnerability, leadership, and why many people feel alone despite being constantly surrounded and connected.
De-reflection: The Coaching Technique That Gets You Out of Your Own Way
An exploration of Viktor Frankl’s idea of de-reflection, narrative identity, Dan McAdams’ redemption and contamination sequences, and why endless introspection can sometimes deepen suffering rather than resolve it.
The Web of Needs: Why Human Beings Are More Complex Than Any Pyramid Can Capture
An exploration of the Web of Needs framework, meaning, rehabilitation, leadership, belonging, and why human beings are more psychologically interconnected than traditional models like Maslow’s hierarchy often suggest.
When Contribution Matters More Than Confidence: The Roots of Belonging
An exploration of confidence, contribution, belonging, meaning, and why participation in something beyond ourselves often matters more psychologically than feeling fully ready.
Chosen Values: The Difference Between Inherited and Chosen Meaning
Most of us never consciously chose what we find meaningful. We inherited it from family, culture, and the era we happened to be born into. This post explores why the real divide isn't between religion and secularism. It's between inherited meaning and examined meaning, and that distinction might be the most important conversation we aren't having.
A Life That Works, or a Life That Feels Worth Living: Ikigai, Positive Psychology, and the Question Life Keeps Asking Us.
An exploration of ikigai, positive psychology, Viktor Frankl, meaning, contribution, and the difference between a life that functions efficiently and one that genuinely feels worth living.
When Failure Becomes the Path: Project Failure and the Redefinition of Success
An exploration of failure, narrative identity, Viktor Frankl, resilience, meaning, and why some of life’s most transformative moments arrive through disruption rather than success.