{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbetween-light-shadow.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fdoes-life-have-purpose-TngyHuhA","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Does life have purpose?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/3a2c3ace-a0e9-4251-ac91-902665be1918/54df3dc0-9ad8-4e67-9e75-cb2bb9a59223/chatgpt-20image-20jan-207-202026-2005-15-29-20pm.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/5244e691-894d-4341-997b-48964632c6fc\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Does life have purpose?\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Does Life Have Purpose?\n\nAt some point, almost everyone asks it — usually in the quiet, after the old answers stop working.\n\nDoes life actually have purpose?\n\nIn this episode, we sit with one of the most searched and most personal spiritual questions of our time. Not to rush toward certainty, and not to offer borrowed answers — but to explore meaning with honesty, compassion, and depth.\n\nThis conversation is for anyone who has felt disillusioned, burned out, grieving, or spiritually unmoored. For those who’ve followed the rules, kept the faith, done everything “right,” and still felt something missing. For those navigating religious deconstruction, life transitions, or the ache for meaning that productivity and positivity can’t touch.\n\nTogether, we explore:\n\nWhy this question often appears after loss, burnout, or awakening\n\nThe difference between purpose and productivity\n\nHow inherited beliefs shape — and sometimes limit — meaning\n\nWhat happens when certainty collapses\n\nA gentler, truer way to understand purpose as presence, relationship, and becoming\n\nThis episode doesn’t promise answers.It offers space. \n\n\n\n"}