
A Crisis of Faith
In this post , I’ll be exploring whether the decline in religious faith in the UK over the past decades is contributing to an increase in midlife anxiety and crisis. Why the rather random focus on religion? Well as I was reviewing my client notes recently it occurred to me that one question kept cropping up, and that was, “What is my life for?” Within the context of their work, their relationships and their contribution, they were looking for reason and purpose – the very questions that have for centuries been answered through religious belief. But not anymore.