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Seeking Meaning and Purpose?

Don't give up
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This Website offers a different approach to meaning and purpose - one based on psychological research that identified the defining constituents of what it is actually like to live without it and what were the essential factors in the process of people who have found meaning and purpose after being without it for long periods.
 

What the Research Found

Meaninglessness?
is Living without Value

Purposelessness?
Being without valued and achievable goals

What traps you in meaninglessness is

A Self-concept that has been choked by past experience

So you expect
you cannot experience value


due to things that stop you knowing

Your dependable strengths
or
What you value
or prevent you

Marching to to your own drum

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Are you

Just existing,

Routinely going through the motions ?

Missing something?

 

 Drifting through life,

a bit empty or even so empty

that nothing seems to matter? 

 Stuck,

with life not going anywhere

or maybe you have no idea

where you want it to go. ​

Or

Unsatisfied, unfulfilled

Despite achieving, self-help

& therapy

there's always

something missing.

 

If you are

This website is for you

 

The solution is to free your identity by expanding it and integrating what has been choked out, especially

  • Your dreams

  • Feelings that announce what you value   

  • Dependable strengths that are present in things you enjoy doing

  • Your thinking and physical capacities. ​

Answers to questions of meaning and purpose often begin with philosophical ideas, religious beliefs, psychological theories or assumptions about how people ought to live.
 

Crafting Meaning and Purpose began differently. These influences were deliberately set aside in order to investigate meaning and purpose through careful psychological study of lived experience itself.
 

The research sought to identify what was common to experiences of meaninglessness — and to the pathways by which people developed lives experienced as meaningful and purposeful.
 

This website translates the findings into practical understanding, activities and resources, while also supporting further research into questions that emerged from them.

Knowledge from 3 Sources

  1. Empirical Phenomenological Research on the lived experience of

           Being without  meaning/purpose in life

​            Transition to meaning and purpose

2. The Published Research

2. Psychological Theory ​& Clinical Practice 

Four Strands : One Mission
 

Creating

Meaning Purpose

in Life 

Support Further Research

  • Research Articles & Publications

  • Resilient Self Therapy Practitioner Resources

  • Research Topics

  • The Crafting Meaning Scholarship 

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Help to find meaning

and Purpose

Research Findings

Self Help Resources

Practitioner Access

Contact

Offerings to

support

scholarships

Poetry
Jewellery

Artworks

​Fungi

Every creative offering, every donation, and every download contributes to psychological research into what makes life meaningful.

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