Finding Purpose and Meaning, with guest Noah Thomas

In this video, author and mental health educator Douglas Bloch joins forces with his friend and videographer Noah Thomas as they share ideas on how to create a life purpose and meaning.

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[angelalalley]

Douglas is a miracle worker! And the master of the affirmation, which have so many, many times helped me out of a dark place. There are so many ways to be of service to people, animals, the Earth!

[maricaweurlander]

Thank u for these videos and bodcast. I am in a bad place, this is a lots of help. Thank u ❤

[mikebordner]

There are many ways to help keep someone that is in remission from depression that Douglas has outlined in his book and many great videos, but helping others, in my opinion, is the best way to continue to keep depression at bay for sufferer’s. Escaping the prison of ones self is very powerful, uplifting and can save lives. Thanks for the video, and good to see Noah with you again Doug.

[ebunmesaiyete]

Thank you for all you do for mental health recovery @Douglas Bloch God bless you always

[nensi]

...dear Douglas, merci, thank you, hvala, for everything, i hope you have managed, or you will, ... to go on vacation, somewhere in nature, seaside, mountin, River, lake ... 😸🙏❤️love to you .... 🙏❤️😸...be good and well...and God bless you and everyone around you... 😸 and beyond ... ❤️🙏

[Ava-ocdg]

Thank you short and sweet about kindness the world needs more of

[jennyfox]

Perhaps if you had a marketer to spread the word of your videos with depression groups online and in large cities. A tiktok channel with depression tips, etc. Your book is fabulous. The content is fabulous. It just needs to get to those people who have a hard time reaching out.

[Cat-bztm]

Your words of wisdom have helped me so much over the years and even now . God bless Helen

[vincesza]

Thanks for always putting material together for us Doug, you are awesome.

[pedropolin]

Great way to start my day today really needed this positivity! Thank you:))

[Ava-ocdg]

It is true service I makes us feel better, but so many have been duped by cults manipulating that emotion in people.

[pmbluemoon]

Thank you to both of you, I like the casual set-up outside 🙂 Just feels like people helping people with no judgement or pressure.

[ringberar]

First, thank you for the video!
That lack of meaning can be very paralyzing for me: Even now as I am just beginning this fall at my dream university that I worked so many years to transfer to … I still feel a lack of purpose: I will join in with you Douglas and Noah. I’ll try and kindle these feelings. Finding that connection and having some true authenticity and meaning would definitely benefit me. Even if it were just completely personal. I’ll admit, I miss the days of being able to be easily religious as a kid. Meaning and purpose was so much more digestible back then 😌

[wordscaninspire]

Hello from Cornwall you guys 🌼🌿 great channel. Bless you Douglas

[asiinaction]

Omg I watched this guys videos when I was struggling with anxiety and ODC like 5 years before

[josejimenaz]

Idk know why this is hard for us young people lookin for purpose but jus having a gud time.

[gauntlettolife]

I couldn't help but feel the phone was a big distraction for the video. Studies show that even a phone being near two people and not even being looked at is a distraction....
Maybe the guy was waiting on an important call?
Next time I think though, lose the phone and be fully present for the video. I mean Douglas was talking about suicidal pain and how tragic it is and Noah's on his phone! 🤔📳🙅🏼

[matthewtenney]

Both meaning and purpose assume and require intelligent design. To say my life has purpose is to say my life was intelligently designed to fill some need. That requires God. Otherwise purpose is a delusion or psych trick.

[dirtyunclehubert]

youve no idea how needed this video was right now in my life.
wonderful talk, and maybe you can invite more people to talks in videos.
so YES. noah has definitely found his purpose, just look at his body, he definitely has not let himself go, which is unfortunately a sign of a purposeless aimless life. also i love how you brought up a bit of the old prof peterson no 1 rule: CLEAN YOUR ROOM. if your life is a big old cluster-F, you can un-F it, by starting to get SOME order in SOME area you can pick.

thanks again. see you all tomorrow? well i'll be damned i sure hope so this time.