Reinventing Purpose: Meaning-Making in the Face of Pain and Illness

Image Credit: Photo by Sameer Srivastava on Unsplash   For many of us, a sense of purpose is a fundamental psychological and existential need. Indeed, decades of health psychology research link a strong sense of purpose in life with less illness and a lower mortality risk (Alimujiang et al.; Shiba et al.; Boyle et al.)….