How we work

To help you discover new ways to be in the world and to grow towards who you want to be.

Our goal is to help you transcend hurdles from your past, attend to your concerns, find happiness in the present and create a vision of what you would like to achieve for your future.

To do this, we will help you to address the various interrelated aspects of your life, such as your health, emotional well-being, relationships and work/school. We will teach you the skills you will need to dynamically make your dreams for the future a reality. We will empower you to make more life-affirming choices.

You have a choice in life, you can be right, or you can be happy (win battles but lose the war). It's a short term gain to win the argument (eg with your spouse or child) and have gotten it your way but it isn't a good strategy for the long term. It's far better to let go of your attachment to your solution and find a new solution which satisfies all parties, rather than just a compromise. In this way also, no one party has control of the other(s) and all win.

You choose your growth, your healing and your transformation.

Do you simply want the pain to stop, or do you want the change to take hold? Do you want life to truly get better for you, and the ones you love? Even with the simple choice to read this now, to consider the possibility of change and growth, this can be a sign that it is your time now. A sign that, it is your time in life. A sign to become who you have always wanted to become, now.

Nobody really wants change, but like it or not, the world changes around us, inside us. Shouldn't we have voice in how we want our lives to be? Is it just a shift in the wind – for things to not be quite as bad – that you want a real change? Or do you want to finally get out of the cold, into what could be possible, if you let it?

Maybe we are like the frogs getting boiled alive. We do not notice how bad it has gotten, that the water is too hot, because it was turned up slowly and we have just gotten used to it. Do you want just for the pain to stop, or to finally get out of the increasingly hot water? Time to jump into a new you.

What do you really want your life to become? Who would you be if you would allow yourself to really shift into who you desire to become?

What are you willing to create, let-go of, surrender to, feel, remember, live, now? Are you willing to let someone help you, to help yourself? Are you willing to confront that which you are most afraid of and really create dynamic change for yourself?

What would it take for you to make the first steps towards you, towards everything that you can choose to be?

Choose to be happy.

It is your time in life, now, finally.

Choose real change for you.

Choose transformation for your family.

Choose now. Waiting for your life to get better will not make it better.

We want you to assume control of your life. The goal is to get past the games, to get to a greater sense of Self. We get you to ask yourself, "What do I want to create for myself?" For example, you don't have to take it out on yourself because of your condition, feeling or experiences. You can ask yourself "How do I live with whatever it might be and create the tools to transform it?"

The aim is acceptance and transcendence with growth. We want you to ask yourself, "What am I doing right now that is moving me in the direction I want to go in?" Sometimes to go up a mountain you have to go around a rock to get to the top. You have to accept your limitations and find ways around them.

What should I do next?

Call us to arrange for counseling services in Chicago or Evanston by phoning 847-338-7533 or by emailing info@ardentcenter.com.