Healing Quest: Quote for the Week

~ Each time you remember the Truth of who you are,

you bring more light into the world. ~ Anonymous

Welcome to Healing Quest

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who provides psychotherapy and counseling to adults and couples in a private practice setting in Bartlett Illinois. My scope of practice includes a wide variety issues, however my specialty areas are:

Women's reproductive health and mental health issues, including coping with gynecological conditions and disorders including PMS/PMDD, PCOS, STD's, endometriosis, adenomyosis, pelvic prolapse, peri-menopause, menopause, migraines, surgical experiences, miscarriage, birth trauma, postpartum depression and anxiety, and other gynecological complications and issues.

Trauma treatment and therapeutic support for those who have experienced a recent trauma, a past trauma, or complex trauma.

Grief and bereavement counseling for those who have experienced the death of a loved one.

Please see my contact information below.

Disclaimer

Disclaimer/Disclosure

“The information I provide in this blog is for educational purposes only. Information about counseling and mental health issues is provided to raise awareness. I welcome you to read, refer to, and use the information on this blog, however, by doing so, you agree it does not constitute the establishment of a therapist-client relationship. This blog does not and cannot provide professional counseling or psychotherapy services. It is not a substitute for obtaining professional assistance from a licensed mental health professional in your area. If you are in crisis, I encourage you to contact an area crisis line, call 911, or go to the emergency room closest to you for assistance.”

Colleen Koncilja LCSW, CADC, CCGC

Favorite Quotes

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. ~ Brenda Ueland
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety ~ Goethe
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go ~ T.S. Eliot
No matter who you are, your #1 job is to be your most amazing self every single day. ~ Betty White
The truth is that there is nothing within us that can hurt us; it is only our fear of experiencing our own feelings that can keep us trapped. ~ Shakti Gawain
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin
We must be the change we wish to see in the world. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
Although this world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. ~ Helen Keller
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~ Anais Nin
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln
You Learn By Living. There is no experience from which you can’t learn something. When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense. And the purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for the newer and richer experiences. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~ George C. Scott
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal. ~ Marilyn Ferguson
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

November 12, 2011

Quote for the Week