Keep Calm - Do I Matter? Do You?
In this episode, Lou Huesmann unpacks a Substack post by Richard Beck about the impact of mattering in mental well-being. He talks about two types of mattering - relational and existential, or cosmic. Lou shares from the post that existential mattering is "the more robust predictor of mental health....We need our value to be grounded in something more durable and consistent than the current status of my social, familial, and romantic life. Our worthiness cannot be wholly in the hands of others."
Lou shares that Beck goes on to explain that there is an intimate connection between relational…
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