Jennifer Martin Rieck, LCPC

07/02/2026

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06/24/2026

Did you know chronic pain rarely starts where it hurts?

Our newest blog post from Nina Verhalen, Neuromuscular Therapist and Lake County Care Collective provider, explores how the body's interconnected systems drive persistent pain — and why treating just the symptom often isn't enough.

If you or someone you love has been dealing with pain that never fully resolves, this is worth a read.

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Chronic pain rarely starts where it hurts. Nina Verhalen, Neuromuscular Therapist in Gurnee, IL, explores how the body's interconnected systems drive persistent pain — and how holistic integrative bodywork creates lasting relief.

06/13/2026

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06/09/2026

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Lake County Care Provider and Functional Nutritionist, Shilpa Patel, offers insight into common signs and symptoms that could indicate an environmental problem.

Read more at https://lakecountycarecollective.com/blog/mold-toxicity-cirs-functional-nutrition

06/08/2026

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Toxic patterns often begin as survival strategies. People-pleasing, hyper-responsibility, emotional shutdown, chronic self-doubt, or difficulty with boundaries may have once helped someone adapt to an unsafe or emotionally unavailable environment.

Healing generational trauma is not about blame. It is about awareness, nervous-system safety, self-compassion, and choosing not to pass pain forward.

Read more on the Winora’s Hope Counseling blog: https://winorashopecounseling.com/blog/when-the-past-lives-in-the-present

06/05/2026

Growth is rarely one dramatic before-and-after moment. More often, it is a million little things quietly coming together over time.

It can be one clearer need, one honest feeling, one pause before reacting, one kinder response to yourself, one boundary, one conversation, or one connection between what you feel today and what you learned long ago.

Therapy can help make those small shifts visible. As self-awareness grows, patterns become easier to name, choices become easier to notice, and change becomes less about forcing yourself into a new life and more about learning how to live from deeper understanding.

If today feels like slow progress, it may still be progress. A small shift can be part of a much larger healing process.

Read the Epijennetics article here:
https://www.epijennetics.com/2022/01/10/change-a-million-little-things/

06/02/2026

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