By Sheri Khan, LPC The holiday season, full of cheerful festivities, can be exhausting and complicated when you are grieving the death of a loved one. There may be people in your life and at those festivities who are unfamiliar with the roller coaster of grief leaving you feeling that you have to manage their […]

By Lauren Caccamo, LPC A gratitude blog post in November? Ground breaking, right? Well I’m here to talk a bit about gratitude, but what I mainly want to discuss is what it means to hold space in your everyday life for a gratitude practice. If you have been anywhere near the mental health space in […]

We all procrastinate – each one of us – so firstly, there is no room for shame or stigma in the discussion of procrastination although many of us feel shame when we procrastinate. Perhaps we feel shame because our productivity-obsessed culture often labels the behavior of procrastination as ‘lazy’, and it takes almost super-human ego […]

By Sheri Khan, LPC Not surprisingly, the impact of grief is hard on both adults and children. When a child loses a loved one for a myriad of different reasons – death, incarceration, or divorce to name a few – the loss may have a profound effect on the rest of his or her life. […]

By Lauren Caccamo, LSW Chronic pain, whether it be in your back, your joints, your neck, maybe even your whole body, is uncomfortable to say the least. The constant nagging of that ache, pull, or sharpness can tug at your mind hundreds of times throughout the day and can make it difficult to live an […]

By Sheri Khan, LPC Many people struggle with the weight of past painful experiences and traumas. When things in the past remain in your mind unsettled, it can be extremely difficult to move wholly onward and impossible to not have those hurts impact today. Healing can occur when our beliefs about past hurts shift to […]

By Meg Bowman, LDN As a functional medicine-trained LDN (licensed dietitian nutritionist) who specializes in mental health nutrition, my job is to search for figs. Let me explain. Rather than searching for the psychosocial reasons you are experiencing mental health symptoms, I look for the biological culprits. Many conditions or diseases impact mental health, but […]

The Divorce Settlement Goal Posts are Set The goal posts for divorce settlements in Illinois are set statutorily. Meaning, even the meanest, most expensive “litigation shark” cannot move the outcome of your divorce settlement far enough in one party’s favor to make it worth the emotional and financial trauma of a litigated divorce. If a […]