Today’s post wraps up a series exploring the questions educators ponder when we’re not up to our eyeballs in school-related work. PJ Caposey is an award-winning educator, keynote speaker, consultant, ...

The COVID pandemic has likely contributed to an uptick in existential anxiety. Source: Cottonbro Studio/Pexels For the past few years, likely due to the COVID pandemic, I have encountered more people ...

Victor Frankl survived 4 death camps during WW2 while losing his parents, his brother and his wife to Hitler’s murderous regime. While Frankl experienced the worst of humanity and the terrors of human ...

Existential therapy is a form of psychotherapy that aims to help people find a sense of meaning in their lives. It is less rigidly structured than other types of therapy and focuses on exploring a ...

Life is filled with a lot of big questions: What’s the point? What’s the meaning? Why am I here? Existential theory tries to answer a lot of those questions to help people find meaning and ...

An existential crisis is a recurring pattern of thoughts regarding your identity, purpose in life, and legacy, among other things. Existential questions may appear at any point in your life and can ...

In recent years, as polarization has torn at the nation’s social fabric, there’s been a surge in attention to civics education. As an old civics teacher (albeit from the last century), I think this is ...

Welcome to the world of existential dread, sometimes called existential angst or anxiety. It comes creeping up for pretty much everyone at some point in their lives. “The pressures and pains of ...