Luck Swallows Everything
Are we ultimately responsible for who we are and the choices we make? Can we choose to be the person who is able to make them? And if not, does this really change anything in the way we live?
Sarah Luczaj’s Articles at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 4
Sarah Luczaj has published the following articles at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life.
The ‘Unstoried Life’ — Not Having a Narrative
In Things That Bother Me, Galen Strawson includes a beautiful account of his own experience as an ‘unstoried’ self, someone to whom it simply does not come naturally to experience life as a story. I feel amazingly affirmed by Strawson’s words.
Are We Doomed?
Climate change, with its predictable consequences, appears irreversible. Can coming to terms with a terminal diagnosis help us to deal with the situation?
What is the Natural State?
The natural state of being with myself, others and everything else, the way I am when circumstances allow, is like being plugged into the current of life.
Free Counselling — Who Pays?
There’s a glaring contradiction involved in the way counsellors work with people to enable them to affirm themselves and the way they can appear — either as saviours from above and beyond the daily struggle, as martyrs sacrificing themselves for others, or just as well-meaning people with no sense of their own value.
Unleash Your Creativity This Spring
It’s Spring, a season of creative disturbance. Once out of the cocoon of Winter, everything starts to move and change. There’s a mix of cold and sun, and everything’s in flux; it can seem like one step forward and two steps back, yet it’s all moving forward.
Death, Stress and Chocolate
Good Friday is a time of darkness and depletion that comes right before the light, a time set aside to contemplate suffering. I was forcing my system on full steam ahead and it felt all wrong.