Who We Help
We Help People. People's Challenges Often Cohort!
We do not think that people in general need therapy, or to be told what to do. We know that education leaves the philosophical skills necessary to live meaningful and successful lives out of the picture. We're here to make up for that lack of essential support.
Philosophit provides support for adults to live their best lives as Life Athletes. We see adulthood dividing into three distinct phases. There can be and is significant overlap, especially as people live longer and healthier lives. These phases are characterized by their own challenges. The Undersupported Life Athlete experiences challenges that are more personalized. They might appear in all three phases.
Life Architects
Mid Life Performers
Mature Life Athletes
The Life Architect has their life ahead of them, and that’s the challenge. Especially for high-achieving young adults, this phase may be the first time adults pause and consider what they want to do.
Specific pressures include:
- Too many possible paths
- Excessive weight placed on choices
- Self-understanding as a work in progress
- Tension between quantity of success and quality of life
- Tension between personal values and external expectations
- Excessive emphasis on performance and outcomes
- Pressure to succeed in an increasingly competitive job market
- Loneliness and social isolation
- Rising costs of living and financial strain
Find out more about our nuanced appreciation of the Life Archictect and how we can help.
Mid Life Performers have been working towards this part of their life for decades. And yet, there are typically many responsibilities and many bad ways (and fewer good ways) to process the challenge.
In many cases, the challenges from the previous stage persist. But new pressures include:
- Managing peak responsibility across work, family, and caregiving
- Navigating role overload as part of the sandwich generation
- Identity and purpose reassessment
- Reassessment of earlier life choices
- Encountering career plateau or diminished growth
- Confronting physical aging, health changes, and loss
- Experiencing financial pressure during peak obligation years
- Loneliness and relational thinning
- Feelings of restlessness, regret, or disorientation
- Questioning purpose, direction, and meaning
- Health concerns
- Career and financial uncertainty
- Relationships and loss
- Existential angst
We think that the Mature Life Athlete is actually in the best time of their life to enjoy it and also the least supported and prepared to enjoy it. This phase brings changes in work (including retirement for many), relationships, and health, changes that force the radical responsibility of Phitness on to the individual.
In many cases, the challenges of the previous two stages persist. And added to this, challenges include:
- Loss of identity and purpose
- Transition to life without a structured work identity
- Feelings of being devalued or under-engaged
- Sense that previous energy invested in others at work and beyond was one-sided
- Concerns about mental and physical deterioration
- Social isolation and loss of daily camaraderie
- Retrospective reckoning with life choices
- Unfulfilled philosophical opportunities for value and fulfillment
- Lack of reflective preparation for life after youth
Undersupported Life Athlete
Perhaps some people are lazy. The Undersupported Life Athlete is the farthest thing from lazy. But they have had little to no luck converting their efforts into reality. The Undersupported Life Athlete can have challenges in all areas of life.
Particular challenges for the Undersupported Life Athlete include:
- Confusion about whether obstacles reflect strategy flaws or personal limits
- Internalization of setbacks as personal shortcomings
- Gradual erosion of confidence despite continued effort
- High effort and compliance without corresponding outcomes
- Implementing advice or best practices that have worked for others without achieving similar results
- Sense of hitting roadblocks, without viable detours
- Sense of constant wasted effort, and unrecoverable costs
We know we can help the Undersupported Life Athlete. Find out how.
Life Architects
The Life Architect has their life ahead of them, and that’s the challenge. Especially for high-achieving young adults, this phase may be the first time adults pause and consider what they want to do.
Specific pressures include:
Too many possible paths
Excessive weight placed on choices
Self-understanding as a work in progress
Tension between quantity of success and quality of life
Tension between personal values and external expectations
Excessive emphasis on performance and outcomes
Pressure to succeed in an increasingly competitive job market
Loneliness and social isolation
Rising costs of living and financial strain
Find out more about our nuanced appreciation of the Life Archictect and how we can help.
Mid Life Performers
Mid Life Performers have been working towards this part of their life for decades. And yet, there are typically many responsibilities and many bad ways (and fewer good ways) to process the challenge.
In many cases, the challenges from the previous stage persist. But new pressures include:
Managing peak responsibility across work, family, and caregiving
Navigating role overload as part of the sandwich generation
Identity and purpose reassessment
Reassessment of earlier life choices
Encountering career plateau or diminished growth
Confronting physical aging, health changes, and loss
Experiencing financial pressure during peak obligation years
Loneliness and relational thinning
Feelings of restlessness, regret, or disorientation
Questioning purpose, direction, and meaning
Health concerns
Career and financial uncertainty
Relationships and loss
Existential angst
Mature Life Athletes
We think that the Mature Life Athlete is actually in the best time of their life to enjoy it and also the least supported and prepared to enjoy it. This phase brings changes in work (including retirement for many), relationships, and health, changes that force the radical responsibility of Phitness on to the individual.
In many cases, the challenges of the previous two stages persist. And added to this, include:
Loss of identity and purpose
Transition to life without a structured work identity
Feelings of being devalued or under-engaged
Social isolation and loss of daily camaraderie
Unfulfilled philosophical opportunities for value and fulfillment.
Find out how we can help.