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Growing up with an alcoholic parent can shape lasting patterns of anxiety, relationships, and self-worth, but therapy can help you heal and build healthier ways of living.

A reflection on loss and finding a path toward healing

Rest is reframed as an essential part of healing, self-care, and emotional well-being. Inspired by Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey, the piece encourages readers to release guilt and see rest as necessary, not selfish.

The decision to have children is deeply personal, yet many people feel weighed down by family, cultural, and societal expectations. For those navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, ambivalence, or a childfree identity, these pressures can affect mental health, relationships, and self-worth. Counseling offers a compassionate space to explore these experiences and honor the path that feels right for you.

The Power of Now highlights how easily anxiety, shame, fear, and overthinking can pull us out of the present moment and into painful loops of past regret or future worry. Through mindfulness, acceptance, and awareness, people can begin to relate to their thoughts differently and reconnect with a greater sense of choice, steadiness, and self.

A Parent’s Guide to Childhood Depression

A Guide to Start Healing a Negative Body Image for Teens

How to Help your Child Transition into a Successful School Year

At Unify Counseling Inc. in Evanston, we often work with individuals experiencing anxiety, burnout, and feeling lost in life. This reflection captures what many clients share as they begin therapy and start reconnecting with themselves.