Melanie Dillon LCPC

05/21/2026

In addition to 911 and 988 here is another mental health resource for less urgent needs in the Chicago area: [email protected]

05/10/2026

I hope today brings you what you need❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💐💐💐

A Mother’s Day prayer

04/24/2026

A step in the right direction 👏🏻👏🏻

04/21/2026

Great advice!!

New research reveals your brain isn’t “wearing out”—it’s being silently switched off. And most people are accelerating the process without realizing it.

03/24/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/melaniedillonlcpc/p/the-gift-of-the-ordinary?r=2hpt11&utm_medium=ios

03/21/2026

March 21, 2026
12PM CT
Stop for 5 minutes
Focus on and repeat:
Peace, Love, Unity and Respect
This is global! Let’s go! ❤️🙏🏻✨✨✨

03/03/2026

I’ve been playing around on Substack…

02/14/2026

Love Yourself First!

Valentine’s Day can have a lot of pressure, high expectations and disappointment as it’s customarily celebrated. We are supposed to wait for and celebrate with our special someone. It has the ingredients for resentment and sorrow, if hopes and dreams aren’t realized. It can be the epitome of letting the external world determine your inner happiness. The danger in that dynamic is that your happiness and feeling loved depends on something you can’t control: other people. Instead I offer to love yourself first. Tune in, see what you need and then provide it yourself! No need to wait. Fill your own bucket the way you’d like and you’ll find an ease that flows into other relationships. This ease creates more relaxed connections with others making it easier to feel love. At the very least you have the satisfaction of having met your needs. At best, it ripples outward and creates better connections with all you encounter. Enjoy! 🤗🤗🤗

01/19/2026

Peace✌🏻

01/09/2026

Do we dare??

If you want to doomscroll less this year, try these realistic tips from screen-time coaches