Hello! Philosophy once used to be practised as a way of life, long before it became a discipline within universities. I view philosophical practice as a movement to return philosophy to its origins. Plato has Socrates say in the Apology that the unexamined life is not worth living. This is because the ancients thought that thinking deeply about the human condition was itself a necessary condition for living a flourishing life. Rather than pathologizing distress, philosophical practice seeks to apply philosophical insights and careful, probing maieutic questioning to uncover and examine the causes of distress and the kinds of philosophy and philosophical insights that can be marshalled in response.