Now, probably, almost everyone is thinking about the questions: what will happen next, how will I live? What can I do when many familiar things instantly disappear from our lives? I am no exception either. This situation led me to take another inventory of my life. I answer myself the questions: What is valuable in my life, what will I hold on to until the end, what will I live in the near future? But before I talk about the conclusions, I will tell you that I went through similar situations with the economic crisis twice and twice found myself in situations of choice. In 1998, I decided to enter the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University, admission was in May, tuition fee was 500 US dollars per semester. My salary was also 500 dollars, but per month. Everything was going great, I was in seventh heaven, it was a very significant event for me and da da da... In August my salary became 100 USD. But the university did not give any discounts or payment in installments. Can you imagine the choice I was faced with? The dream of my entire youth could end in one semester. At first I fell into despair that I would have to quit studying, but literally a month later my husband changed jobs and they began to pay him in dollars (at that time it was possible, who knows). Not only was I able to pay for the training, but we began to live much better than before the crisis, because prices were in rubles. In 2008, I decided to quit the office to start studying psychotherapy: I saved money, prepared mentally, but something was holding me back statement and ta da da da Crisis of 2008. At that time, a lot of staff were laid off in Moscow, almost every third person I knew became unemployed. My son was still in school, and my husband with dollars was no longer there, and I decided to put off studying and stay for an indefinite period. It turned out that this was a very correct decision, a year later I had the opportunity to move to the same company part-time and study the rest of the time. So, our time: I quit the office to develop a private practice and so on and so forth we all we know what happened. Analyzing past experience, I understand that we never know what new opportunities we will have in seemingly hopeless situations. What will this or that decision lead to? What is right and what is wrong is shown only by time and events. But for me personally, the main thing is to realize and understand what is most valuable at the moment in my life and make all decisions from this point. In the first case, it was very important for me to study at the university, and secondly, to teach my son. Now it is valuable and important for me to continue what I started, to move forward in this uncertainty and fog. Psychotherapy is especially relevant to me both personally and professionally. After all, it is therapy that teaches how to cope with life’s difficulties more constructively. It is about internal support, and about personal strength and the right important decisions. I think, thanks largely to personal therapy, I was able to make a choice in favor of myself, deciding to leave office work, think through a lot, foresee what and what I would replace it with. And now I feel quite stable, I am not shaken and I continue to work and live at my own pace. And yet, it is necessary not to narrow inside to the level of survival, but even try to expand a little. More and more often I remember Viktor Frankl, who was thinking about his logotherapy in a concentration camp, and Evgenia Ginzburg, while in the camps, constantly read poetry, observed fellow inmates and staff, saving plots for her book, and even met her second husband. Life goes on in any conditions. And this is my life.