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Authentic Self-Discovery: How Existential Therapy Confronts Life’s Meaninglessness

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For some people, the most pressing struggle isn’t anxiety, depression, or trauma in the conventional sense. It’s a quieter and harder-to-name challenge: a sense that life has lost its meaning, that choices feel arbitrary, or that something essential is missing despite outward success. Standard therapeutic approaches sometimes miss this layer entirely, focusing on symptoms while […]