Heart attack forces North Carolina artist to pursue new direction
After experiencing a near-fatal heart attack in 2015, David Berger opened the Mountain Mist Gallery to share his passion with others.
5 steps to help discover purpose and meaning for your life
Without purpose, you are simply existing and that’s no fun at all — even if you have all the money you need and can afford to live a life of leisure.
Does just thinking about purpose for your life give you anxiety?
What if you want to be doing something meaningful, but aren’t doing so because you haven’t found the right thing to pursue?
How to help a spouse with dementia find purpose and meaning to life
It is a sorrowful situation because the victim of dementia desperately wants to feel useful and needed. This would be especially true for men.
Science confirms time in nature improves physical, mental health
There appears to be a strong push in European countries to encourage doctors to write “nature prescriptions” to their patients to entice them to spend more time outdoors.
Lessons learned from my mother’s passing
A lot has happened since March, when my mother died. I learned several lessons from this experience about ways to help survivors.
The boss gave you a purpose; are you engaged in carrying it out?
Would we live differently if we knew we had to face the boss every Sunday to give an account of what we did with our time that week?
Retired nurse finds purpose reading to nursing home residents
Irene retired as a nurse a few years after her husband died. She knew she needed to find a purpose for her life. Now 71, she found it by reading to people who can often no longer read themselves.
Do men need purpose more than respect?
“While many men demand respect, what they need is purpose, and the quest for respect can sometimes undermine the sense of purpose that will help make them whole.”
A Man Called Otto: An accurate reflection of life without purpose
After losing his family, some of his friends and his job, Otto has no purpose. His life changes when he discovers what that purpose may be.