Coaching practices for Existentialism Sartre
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep saying "that’s just who I am"
- I’m facing a real decision and I realize I’m about to choose what my family or my role or "what one does" expects of me, not what I actually value
- I describe my life in "I have to" and "I have no choice," and it lets me off the hook
- When a genuinely open choice is in front of me
- There’s a decision I keep half-defending with a fog of "well, the circumstances, the other people, what else could I have done"
Practices that may help
- Existentialism and Radical Choice
Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism holds that human beings have no fixed nature — "existence precedes essence" — and are therefore radically free to define themselves through their choices. The practical implication is that you cannot hide behind role, instinct, or circumstance: you are always already choosing, including when you tell yourself you have no choice. This is philosophical rather than clinical; its overlap with ACT and CBT is real but indirect. - Take seriously that you have no fixed nature
Stop treating your personality, role, or past as a given — you are always in the process of defining yourself.
Existentialism and Radical Choice - Choose authentically — from your own values, not from expectation
Make choices that reflect your actual values rather than the role others have assigned you.
Existentialism and Radical Choice - Spot bad faith in yourself
Notice when you are treating yourself as a thing determined by role, instinct, or expectation — and claim the choice.
Existentialism and Radical Choice - Sit with the anxiety of freedom
When the weight of choice produces vertigo, use it as a signal — not a problem to escape.
Existentialism and Radical Choice - Take radical responsibility for your choices
Own every choice completely — including its unintended consequences and the unchosen conditions within which you chose.
Existentialism and Radical Choice - Define yourself by actions, not intentions
You are not your intentions or your self-image — you are the accumulation of what you actually do.
Existentialism and Radical Choice - Be fully present without hoping for something else
Camus advocates full presence in the actual moment — not as a way to escape it but as its own form of aliveness.
Absurdism and the Practice of Meaning Despite - Acknowledge the absurd without flinching
See the gap between your hunger for meaning and the universe’s silence — and stay with both, without resolving them.
Absurdism and the Practice of Meaning Despite - Revolt: keep living fully despite the absurd
Camus’s answer to meaninglessness is not acceptance or surrender but revolt — keeping going with full awareness.
Absurdism and the Practice of Meaning Despite
Related concerns
- Bad Faith Sartre
Notice when you are treating yourself as a thing determined by role, instinct, or expectation — and claim the choice.
Spot bad faith in yourself
- Radical Responsibility Sartre
Own every choice completely — including its unintended consequences and the unchosen conditions within which you chose.
Take radical responsibility for your choices
- How To Apply Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism holds that human beings have no fixed nature — "existence precedes essence" — and are therefore radically free to define themselves through their choices. The practical implication is that you cannot hide behind role, instinct, or circumstance: you are always already choosing, including when you tell yourself you have no choice. This is philosophical rather than clinical; its overlap with ACT and CBT is real but indirect.
- Necessity Vs Choice Existentialism
Notice when you are treating yourself as a thing determined by role, instinct, or expectation — and claim the choice.
- Anxiety Of Freedom Sartre
When the weight of choice produces vertigo, use it as a signal — not a problem to escape.
Sit with the anxiety of freedom
- Authentic Choice Sartre
Make choices that reflect your actual values rather than the role others have assigned you.
Choose authentically — from your own values, not from expectation
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