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Published Mar 18, 2025

By Paula Gonzalez When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, their first instinct was to hide. Realizing their nakedness, they grabbed fig leaves to cover themselves. I often wonder how much we still resemble them today. While we don’t grab literal fig leaves, we cover ourselves in other ways: striving to look like the […]

Published Mar 11, 2025

By Renee Wisniowicz My name is Renee and I am a Financial Advisor in the Fox Valley. I have owned my practice for almost 5 years, specializing in families, business owners and medical professionals. My mission is to bring peace and clarity to people by creating a detailed financial plan. Financials can be scary, overwhelming, […]

Published Feb 18, 2025

Playing piano has always been my thing. Singing? Not so much. (I’m great at finding the harmony, but I’m definitely not solo material.) So, I surprised even myself when I stepped up to pinch-hit with a vocal solo some years back. Traveling with a girls’ choir from an Adult & Teen Challenge center in New […]

Published Feb 13, 2025

Get Outside For Your Mental Health I write a lot about being outside and the things I do outside. And maybe that seems confusing since I also talk a lot about mental health and being a therapist. But what if I told you that there is a TON of research on the affects of nature […]

Published Oct 15, 2024

By Gaye Lindfors I was walking past the graham crackers in the grocery store when the elderly woman in the blue wool coat pushing a grocery cart rushed up to me. “Where are the paper towels?” Her sense of urgency really caught my attention. It came through her voice and her eyes. Panic. Anxiety. Lots […]