The practical side mattered as much as the counseling, and that is the part people leave out.

I moved to a staff position for the last eighteen months of my time at Carson.

It was a lateral move at best and it took me out of the running for one or two things.

My career survived it.

If it hadn’t, that would have been an acceptable price, and I’d have said so at the time.

Samantha and I put an actual schedule on paper — not an understanding, a schedule, with names and dates, covering every training period on my calendar for a year.