lpetrich
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Secular celebrants - births, marriages, deaths, etc.
Spirituality - "spiritual but not religious"? "atheist spirituality"?
Meditation
Another category of organized-religion dropout activities is counseling: psychological counseling, psychotherapy, psychiatry, career coaching, grief counseling, ...
Yes, there is a whole field of career coaching, like this: An Advice Session With Megan Hellerer, AOC’s Career Coach MH did use some woo-woo, like saying that an early midlife crisis would happen when Saturn returns to the sign where it was when one was born. I happen to know some astronomy, as opposed to astrology, and that's an orbit period of Saturn, 29.5 years, about right for an early midlife crisis. But the Saturn connection seems like cherry-picking to me.
Also grief counseling: 3 Grief Counseling Therapy Techniques & Interventions That page mentions Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's model of grief, though stating "Although not much evidence has been found to support this model, it has stuck around in popular culture." Also noting EKR's backing away from her original model, and noting other models.
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Spirituality - "spiritual but not religious"? "atheist spirituality"?
Meditation
Another category of organized-religion dropout activities is counseling: psychological counseling, psychotherapy, psychiatry, career coaching, grief counseling, ...
Yes, there is a whole field of career coaching, like this: An Advice Session With Megan Hellerer, AOC’s Career Coach MH did use some woo-woo, like saying that an early midlife crisis would happen when Saturn returns to the sign where it was when one was born. I happen to know some astronomy, as opposed to astrology, and that's an orbit period of Saturn, 29.5 years, about right for an early midlife crisis. But the Saturn connection seems like cherry-picking to me.
Also grief counseling: 3 Grief Counseling Therapy Techniques & Interventions That page mentions Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's model of grief, though stating "Although not much evidence has been found to support this model, it has stuck around in popular culture." Also noting EKR's backing away from her original model, and noting other models.
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