What carries in life? What provides orientation in impenetrably confusing times? What can inspire confidence in crises? What sustains amid personal disasters? People who accompany, advise and treat people professionally encounter such existential questions almost every day. Professional advisors offer dedicated support and notice again and again that these questions also trigger important issues for themselves. And so the well-known philosophical considerations of what makes a good life become personal, up-to-date development impulses for the companions and therapists. This book takes up some of these questions that clients and patients have raised, illuminates them from philosophical-practical and psychological perspectives and opens up spaces for reflection for ones own encounters, for determining ones position and further discussion, supplemented by workshop insights from the author and practical self-coaching Suggestions for the readers.