Folks don't often think about the stresses their counselors or therapists might feel as we do our work day in and day out of listening and sorting out other people's problems. We are trained to 'track' the process of your unfolding in the therapeutic process, we are following a path as it opens up to us; we're not entirely sure what we'll find, but we know the path is there. Some years back I wrote a blog called 'rightbrainrunner' which covered the period of time my elders (my aunt, my parents) were nearing- and then crossing to- their ends, overlapping with my own struggle with depression and anxiety while working full-time as a County OP clinician and learning to become a long-distance runner. The writing was cathartic- I've never hid my issues, but juggle the need to remain private with judicious self-disclosure, partly because I passionately believe in normalizing MH issues for all of us. Running turned out to be the prescrip...