Finding My Way

Let me introduce myself. My name is Victor Best. If you live in Santa Barbara, California, and you are seeking psychotherapy, I would likely be high on most referral lists. I have been practicing for over thirty years. Even now at sixty-eight, I love my work and the people I serve.My wife taught public school here as long as I had been in practice until she retired five years ago. She was struck down with cancer three years later. Her last months were brutal for both of us. She died a year ago, and my friends and I spread her ashes at sea as she had requested. The experience has been so unreal to me that I as yet havent come to terms with her being gone from my life.I have not done well in dealing with her passing. She was so central to my life. Only through friendship and work have I kept my life together, but I feel as if I am only going through the motions. This day is a painful anniversary and will be more of a challenge for me and the patients I will see than usual. Hopefully, all will somehow benefit from it.