The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters

Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing (London: Hay House, 2012).

For a description of each stage, see William Breitbart and Allison Applebaum, “Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy,” in Maggie Watson and David W. Kissane (editors), Handbook of Psychotherapy in Cancer Care (Chichester, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons, 2011).

Harvey Max Chochinov, Thomas Hack, Thomas Hassard, Linda J. Kristjanson, Susan McClement, and Mike Harlos, “Dignity Therapy: A Novel Psychotherapeutic Intervention for Patients Near the End of Life,” Journal of Clinical Oncology 23, no. 24 (2005): 5520–25.

Michael Steger, “Is It Time to Consider Meaning in Life as a Public Policy Priority?” Ewha Journal of Social Sciences 30, no. 2 (2014): 53–78.

Aaron Hurst, The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World (Boise, Idaho: Elevate, 2014)

Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, 250.

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal (New York: Atria Books, 2015).

others don’t have to go through: This tendency has also been called “altruism born of suffering,” as Kelly McGonigal points out in The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It (New York: Avery, 2015).

What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth (New York: Basic Books, 2011).

Eugene d’Aquili, Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (New York: Ballantine Books, 2002), 2.