Suffering is real. You have a guardian angel to guide you. Just be receptive. I call mine Alacrity, and see her as female. Instead of wallowing in whatever, she is the epitome of eagerness.
Inspired by Connecting and Aligning with Your True Self: An Interview with Coach Luce Campagna
From the above blog post:
“Moreover, she will craft an actionable and deliverable plan to help her clients to get to where they want to go …”
I don’t dispute that she may get clients who will benefit from the plans she constructs, worthy of the fee for each session.
I’d just like to share certain insights that have come to me lately. The first is the nature of the “I”. Every kind of counselling is designed to help a person cope with being bombarded from various angles:
• Outside: their presence in a world which does not let them live in peace
• in their own body: its disabilities, discomfort and physical pain
• in their mind: being nagged by all kinds of unresolved issues
• in their close and distant relations with other people: how to get along with them and avoid hostile or indifferent reactions
• in their spiritual life: finding something “solid beneath their feet” as opposed to something vague in the sky.
They might not see it that way, of course. And I am clearly talking from ignorance here.
So these are my insights, which have come to me gradually in the last couple weeks, having realized how blest I am. I like to say “God is good”, having realized that everything that’s ever happened to me, 
in eight decades of life, full of dramatically huge mistakes, was meant to be.
Why? because it’s left me in a good place, where everything is just right. It took an illness, requiring a serious spinal operation, leaving me permanently bent, and till recently dependent on painkillers, to reach this place.
These are my insights:
1. This moment is all we have. Don’t be dependent on the future.
2. Suffering is real. You have a guardian angel to guide you. Just be receptive. I call mine Alacrity, and see her as female. Instead of wallowing in whatever, she is the epitome of eagerness. I am to grasp what is in front of me and not dodge.
3. I need to have a purpose in every moment. Maslow’s Pyramid springs to mind. Hunger, thirst, shelter and so on. Just to recognize my felt need and do something.
4. Nothing philosophical here. Live with the simplicity of a small child. Try not to punish yourself.
You are loved unconditionally. This is the greatest mystery
Thank you for this, Vincent.
… from which I gather that you still read my posts, after retiring from your Fair and Unbalanced blog.
I was glad to read your list of skills. I was involved computer software from 1965 to 2018.
In latter days, I programmed exclusively in Microsoft Access, and did consultancy for a company called Pondergrove. I’ve lost the knack these days, but am happy to be a user of My Diary .
I hope all is well with you, dear Burr. With the philosophy of life you’ve expressed, it cannot be otherwise
Actually, I still blog. Fair and Unbalanced was hacked into and infected by some Russian firm located in Moscow. This put the site put out of business.
Red-state-blues.com is my newer site.
I read and mention your insights often, Vincent.
You are a continuing source of wisdom.