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EPISODE · Jun 15, 2025 · 5 MIN

Existential Angst: Living Inside the Question

from The Fractured Self Podcast · host Rich Bennetts

That peculiar weight between your ribs that arrives uninvited, not quite anxiety, not quite grief, but something that remembers you're alive when you'd rather forget. This episode sits inside existential angst without trying to cure it, exploring how this fundamental human disquiet shows up in fluorescent-lit grocery stores and middle of the night moments alike.We examine the quiet rebellion of consciousness against its own containers, the cost of staying awake to your own life, and why that stone in your shoe might be the most honest thing you carry. From the French l'appel du vide to the ordinary vertigo of existing, we map the territory between who you are and who you perform.This isn't about solving your existential crisis or finding your authentic self. It's about what happens when you stop trying to fix the questions and start living inside them. A meditation on the tender impossibility of being human, for those who've grown tired of pretending otherwise.https://www.fracturedself.com

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That peculiar weight between your ribs that arrives uninvited, not quite anxiety, not quite grief, but something that remembers you're alive when you'd rather forget. This episode sits inside existential angst without trying to cure it, exploring...

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