September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month—a time to shine a light on what saves lives: noticing warning signs, starting caring conversations, and connecting people to help. If you’re in Glen Ellyn or the broader DuPage County area, this guide offers clear steps and local resources you can use right away.

Navigating a big life change? Learn therapist-approved tools for women facing career moves, relationship shifts, fertility, caregiving, and identity transitions—and when therapy can help.

Life doesn’t move in straight lines—it turns, pivots, loops back, and sometimes takes surprise detours. For women, these changes can cluster around career shifts, relationships, family roles, identity, and even our bodies. You might be starting a new job, ending a long relationship, caring for a parent, sending a child to college, or asking big questions like, “Who am I now?” If you’re feeling unmoored, you’re not failing—you’re transitioning. And transitions, while challenging, are also fertile ground for growth.

Read on to learn therapist-informed strategies to help you move through change with steadiness, self-respect, and clarity.

Back-to-school season can feel like jumping onto a moving treadmill: new bell times, early alarms, after-school activities, forgotten forms, and dinner that somehow needs to appear… again. If your household’s mood has shifted from summer-breeze to storm warning, you’re not alone. As therapists, we see a predictable rise in stress, marital tension, and parenting challenges this time of year. The good news? With a few practical resets and some compassion for yourself and your partneryou can steady the ship.

“School’s out!”—three words that spike stress for millions of working parents 😅

A May 2025 survey of 2,000 U.S. millennial parents found one in three expect this summer to be their most stressful yet, with nearly half worried about juggling work and kids’ schedules. Another report shows 53 % of working parents still scramble for childcare—and only half have any backup options. The result? Sky-high burnout: almost a third of parents say they’re “sailing close to burnout,” and 90 % admit they’re losing sleep over caregiving stress.

If that feels familiar, take heart. This guide lays out practical, evidence-based strategies to help you survive (and maybe enjoy) summer break—plus a path to deeper, lasting relief with Sweetgrass Therapy, Glen Ellyn’s trusted counseling practice for overwhelmed parents.