Can you move forward without looking back? “If you want to know the future, look to the past.” Albert Einstein History serves to teach us, and as clinicians, we work to educate our clients on how to be aware of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X As we prepare them, we caution them that sometimes therapy can be uncomfortable, but it has great rewards. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt LAMFT’s theme this year was Past Perspective to Future Application. We sought to acknowledge the ideas, theories, practices, etc. we all have learned, as well as promulgate the changes to our field that have improved the lives of those we work with. Sometimes the basics work, and sometimes they need to be updated.