Lolita Baker, MA, LPC

10/15/2026

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Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. 🕯️

At 7:00 tonight, wherever you are, light a candle and let it burn for at least an hour. As each time zone reaches 7:00, the candles form a wave of light that travels around the world.

This is for the baby you lost at six weeks. The one you delivered at twenty-four. The one who lived for a day, and the one who lived for a season. It's for the ones you never got to name out loud.

It's for mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and friends. You loved them. They mattered.

If it helps, say their name tonight. Or just sit with the light for a while. You don't have to be okay. You're not alone in this.

If you'd like a place to talk about your loss, we're here.

940.239.9169 / [email protected]

10/14/2026

Every relationship has hard seasons. A difficult relationship and a destructive one can look alike from the outside. So how do you tell the difference?

Not by whether someone hurts you. Everyone does at some point. Look at what they do next.

In a difficult relationship, the person owns what they did. They care how it landed, they make amends, and they change over time. Repair is possible.

In a destructive one, the response is blame, excuses, or "you're too sensitive." Sometimes a Bible verse gets aimed at you. And the behavior comes back.

Jesus said you know a tree by its fruit (Matthew 7:16). Changed hearts and actions over time are fruit.

This isn't a way to diagnose your partner. If the right side sounds like home, talk to a counselor or an advocate who can see the whole picture.

National hotline: 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788.

10/09/2026

10/08/2026

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Ilyssa, our office manager, has been busy with her crochet hooks.

For Domestic Violence Awareness Month, she's making infinity fidgets in purple. Each one is handmade and just $5.

Why a fidget? When your thoughts are loud, busy hands can help you settle. Run your fingers along the twist. Slow your breathing. Keep it in your bag, pocket, or your car for the moments you need it.

You can pick one up in our lobby during office hours. No appointment needed. No forms. Nobody will ask you why.

Plus, every dollar helps someone get care they couldn't otherwise afford.

900 8th Street, Suite 920, Wichita Falls
940.239.9169 / [email protected]

Purple is the color of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. If you or someone you love is in an unsafe relationship, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is free, confidential, and open 24/7. Call 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788. 💜

09/28/2026

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As September winds down, we wanted to pause and say thank you.

This has been a season of real change: a new space, new partnerships, new services, and more growth than we probably could have planned for on purpose. None of it would mean anything without this community walking through it alongside us.

Thank you for trusting us, referring us, and choosing us, over and over again. We don't take it for granted.

09/22/2026

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09/20/2026

Esther's story starts with loss most of us wouldn't survive intact. Orphaned young, raised by her cousin Mordecai, then taken into a king's palace under circumstances she never chose for herself. Trafficking, displacement, forced belonging. Her whole life up to that point had been decided by everyone except her.

And yet, when the moment comes that could save her entire people, she is terrified. Scripture doesn't hide that. She hesitates. She asks for time. She knows the risk of walking in uninvited could cost her life.

Mordecai doesn't shame her fear. He simply says, "Who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this."

That's not a demand to be fearless. It's a reminder that the very things that shaped her, the loss, the displacement, the years of learning to survive in rooms she didn't choose, had also prepared her for something she couldn't have seen coming. She went forward terrified and anointed at the same time. Not one instead of the other.

If your story includes chapters you didn't choose, they are not disqualifying you from what's ahead. They may be exactly what's preparing you for it.

Esther 4:14

09/19/2026