Sentence examples for overcoming anguish from inspiring English sources

Illouz posits that between Sigmund Freud's influence on public and private life and the popularity of psychologist Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, we've come to articulate our life stories in terms of a therapeutic narrative: a tale of overcoming anguish in order to reach a place of self-understanding and, ideally, self-actualization.

His overcoming the anguish successfully is reproduced here in what we might call a Healing Narrative.

The families of the children and adults killed in the bombing should be entitled to attend Mr. McVeigh's execution, if that would help them overcome their anguish.

Mr. Furlanetto brought aching expressivity and stentorian sound to the scene in which Philip, in his lonely study at night, is overcome with anguish as he confronts the reality of his life: a young wife who has never loved him; a rebellious, contemptuous son; subjects who fear him.

However, one evening he confronts the gaming tables and is overcome with anguish at the recognition that his resolve, while still "there," retains none of its power: it is an object for consciousness but is not (and never could have been) something in consciousness that was determining his actions.

The centre tries to help children overcome their anguish, and advises parents who have no idea how to prepare their children to the possibility that their home be demolished overnight.

For instance: "Those girls are lucky in whom the first sexual experience arouses remorse or at least some emotion violent enough to overcome the formless anguish and desperate nausea which Mouchette felt".

Berger asks: "What is the effect of facing, trying to understand, hoping to overcome the extreme anguish of other persons five or six times a week?" Published in January 1963 under a pseudonym, only a month before Plath killed herself, The Bell Jar is a glimpse into one experience of profound suicidal anguish, as well as the failings of 1950s psychiatry.

Overcoming differences.

Of overcoming adversity.

Overcoming discrimination.