Chapter 6: Existential Therapy Video Blog

Video Title: Existential Therapy

In some ways it seems as though the women is aware of her own freedom. She describes the situations her decisions have gotten her into and her feelings as a result. Because of these feelings she has now taken a position of "no one to blame but myself" since she was free to make those decisions. In some ways she may be feeling Existential guilt as her decisions now affect her children, and she now feels it is necessary to do all she can to make the transition easiest on them at her own expense. The self mocking also may be a defense mechanism in order to mask her anxieties. She turns to humor to try and mask her inner sadness not only from other but from her self as well.