Once more with Beth Pace, a New Orleans-based therapist, on another topic near and dear to counselors everywhere: Work/life balance. How much money is enough? How much really, really isn't? How long can someone tolerate abject misery in a work environment? What does one do when they realize they are stuck in an unsustainable and/or unsatisfying situation? What if there are multiple people who depend on your income? What can you do if you are not yet able to make a lifestyle change but want some short-term relief?

I really enjoyed the radically different perspective, and can look back and say that I am able to see perspectives that would never have come to me without such natural conversation among a peer who is equally brave enough to shrug the status quo.