Hi there my name is Mathias and I'm a psychotherapist in Spokane, Washington

and this is a podcast where I just talk about what's meaningful in life and moving

towards health, moving towards what matters, amidst hardship,

amidst difficulty, and really today,

we're talking about that quite proximately.

It's meaning and satisfaction.

That's the topic of today's episode.

I'm really excited to show you too because I've actually

been maybe re-reading through a lot of the material that inspired this

podcast originally. So this is the audio for those you've been kind of

listening along these are all kind of the audio

versions of the videos that I've been posting for the last year and so I

posted this video in May of 2019 no 20 20 20 20 yeah 20 20, and it was really kind of when I was first introduced to these ideas and they were so

meaningful and just kind of taking root and I remember being so inspired and then really being inspired also by seeing how these ideas really changed people's lives around me.

My clients that I was working with fellow clinicians would not have conversations about finding meaning and satisfaction amidst hardship.

This is kind of really what inspired and started at all in a sense was coming to a very

grounded explanation and understanding in my own heart of what it means

to find meaning and satisfaction and what one does in the world.

And in the midst of hardship, too, and that's an important qualifier qualifier it's not just in place of or to transform the suffering but it can

Exist alongside of it and that's I'll talk all about that but all that to say I've been I've been reading a lot more as of late and rereading a lot of these books and some of the original like psychological journals that I did beforehand and actually taking like a deeper dive into the minutia of the psychological theory, things like functional

contextualism, contextual behavioral science, and it's just a well that keeps going and going and going and so I think I'm going to actually, I don't know, not maybe do a part two, but maybe do more, expand these ideas more in the future, do future videos, really kind of adding to this, and because I just think

there's so much here.

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