The Existential Lens

Reflections on Psychotherapy, Existence, and the Human Experience

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Understanding Anxiety

Anxiety is often a fundamental part of human experience. In this sense, it can be understood as a guide—pointing us toward how our choices, fears, and unresolved conflicts are resonating within us.

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When Meaning Has No Map

Loneliness, a loss of meaning, and the absence of any clear inner map often coexist, leaving life feeling flat or distant despite external success. This reflection explores how meaning, depth, and direction can begin to re-emerge through contact with one’s inner life.

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Identity as a Living Process

An exploration on how our identities are not fixed, but living processes shaped through relationship, context, and experience. This podcast invites a deeper look at the moments when the mystery of the self reveals itself within the everyday.

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The Paradox of Free Will in Therapy

Free will is foundational to our sense of self and being, yet it exists within a container, a set of causes and conditions that shape, limit, or expand our agency. This is the existential paradox: we are shaped by deterministic forces and yet capable of moments of profound freedom.

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