Got that blah feeling?
Jul 14, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS by BROOKE LE POER TRENCH
Treading water. Feeling meh. Coasting. We all have different ways to describe the feeling that psychologists refer to as languishing. “When you’re in this state, you feel like you’re stagnating – life is a bit aimless and joyless,” says organisational psychologist Adam Grant, author of Think Again. “You don’t have symptoms of mental illness, but you’re not at the peak of mental health either.”
If you think about the spectrum of mental health, flourishing is the peak of your wellbeing, when life has a strong sense of meaning. At the
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