Jennifer Valice, LCSW

10/08/2025

Where REST + REGULATION = REVOLUTION

10/08/2025

✨ MIDNIGHT SURPRISE ✨

For those of you who’ve been hovering over the checkout button for the Red Heart Retreat… this is for you.

When you secure your cabin, you’ll receive a complimentary Enneagram assessment + private 1:1 reading with me, a bonus valued at $797.

The Enneagram is not a personality test, it’s a n integrative framework for understanding your patterns & defenses that were shaped by your story.

It’s been a crucial part of my healing journey. It helped me find language for my emotions, create safety in my body, and even save my marriage.

This bonus is available only during the final countdown. There is room for 3 more women.

If you’ve been on the fence, this is your final nudge.

🔥 Registration closes Wednesday at 11:59 PM or when cabins are full.

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🖤 The Red Heart Retreat | Oct 24–26 | Heritage Harbor, IL

09/28/2025

06/30/2025

It’s time to prioritize yourself! It’s not selfish, it’s self-care! 💝 And You are worth it!

04/10/2025

YOU’RE NOT BROKEN!

Mental health has been ignored, condemned and overcomplicated. The reality is that like physical health, we all have mental health, and we all need to protect it.

Unfortunately, too many people are diagnosed with mental illness without ever being given practical tools to regulate their nervous system. Many therapists don’t even know how to regulate their own.

When I was a successful therapist with a six-figure practice and a client waiting list, I still spent years dysregulated and chasing approval.

No matter how loyal I was...
No matter how many people I helped...
No matter how much money I made...
No matter how much success I had...
I was still anxious. I was still depressed.

Imposter syndrome, had me chasing validation like a thief in the night.

Even after building a beautiful marriage and family, it wasn’t enough.
I just couldn’t feel genuinely happy for any length of time.

With a diagnoses of PTSD, anxiety, and depression — I believed I was broken, and thought I just needed to work harder.

When I got weary from all the hustling, I numbed out, self destructing with food, alcohol, and anger.

When I eventually burned out, and found myself in an incredibly dark season, I was forced to look in the mirror and finally take a long hard look at examine my destructive behaviors, internal thoughts, and beliefs.

A lot of artists and entrepreneurs experience these dark seasons, and sadly, many don’t make it out. As scary as that season was for me, I am one of the lucky ones who lived to tell about it. I’ve now spent the last five years coaching artists, entrepreneurs and executives on how to take control of their mental wellness journey.

This masterclass is the roadmap I needed when I was overscheduled, people-pleasing, and miserable.

It’s full of the tools that helped me find myself — and reclaim my inner peace and enthusiasm for life.

If you want to remember who you are, and reclaim your mental wellness, join me in kicking off Mental Health Awareness Month, on May 1st at 7 p.m. CT (on Zoom).

Welcome Back Warrior, see you soon.

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04/04/2025

To the Mom Who Left a Toxic Relationship for Her Child and Herself.
I know you didn’t leave easily. You didn’t wake up one day and decide to shatter the life you built.

You stayed far longer than you should have, hoping things would get better. Not for yourself—but for your child.
For the family you wanted so badly to hold together.

You gave chances.
You made excuses.
You kept the peace, even when it cost you your own.

You tolerated manipulation dressed as love. You endured words that left bruises you couldn’t show. You minimized the chaos, thinking if you just tried harder, things might finally settle.

But one day, you looked at your child and realized this isn’t the love I want them to grow up learning. This isn’t the home I want them to believe is normal. This isn’t the life I want to keep surviving.

So you left.

Maybe with shaking hands. Maybe with guilt. Maybe with nothing but a bag and a broken heart. But you left.

And that took more strength than anyone will ever understand. You chose generational healing over generational patterns.

You chose silence over screaming.
Peace over pretending. Freedom over fear.

And yes, it’s hard. There are nights you question everything. There are moments where the loneliness is louder than the old chaos ever was. But You didn’t fail. You saved someone.

You saved your child from thinking love feels like walking on eggshells. You saved yourself from a lifetime of shrinking just to keep someone else comfortable.

You are not a broken family. You are a brave one. A free one. A healing one.

So even when doubt creeps in, and you miss the “what could’ve been” remember:
You did the hardest, bravest thing a mother can do. You chose to break the cycle,
so your child never has to survive what you did. And is the beginning of something beautiful.

✍️credit to the rightful author
🎨credit to the artist via Pinterest

12/31/2024

Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, missing loved ones, or navigating complicated emotions, know that you're not alone this holiday season. It's okay to feel what you feel, and it's okay to prioritize your mental health during this time.

The 988 Lifeline is available, 24/7. Text or call 988 for emotional support. We're here for you. 💜

11/11/2024

Let’s talk about it…

05/28/2024

Take what you’ve learned and apply it moving forward…We can’t erase the past, but we get to write the next chapter!
Thank you, Cody. 💛

I know it hurts.

It’s a very strange feeling how someone can be in your life for months or even years and then one day ... all of a sudden not be there anymore.

Maybe the relationship ended on good terms.... or maybe it was completely catastrophic.

Either way .... it’s so bizarre how relationships can change so vast and rapidly.

And you know what .... you may not be at peace with what happened between the two of you ... and thats perfectly fine.

Sometimes the end of a relationship can literally be one of the hardest things we go through in life.

I want you to know it’s okay that your heart still hurts because of what happened.

You have made alot of memories with this person.

And these memories that you have made is something you can’t erase no matter how hard you try.

Whether you like it or not, they are a part of your story.

I know looking on these memories can be hard, and you may wish you could forget them.

But instead of forgetting, maybe we should try to focus on what came from the relationship.

You two joined paths for a particular reason.

Maybe you walked through some of the hardest times together.

Maybe you understood each other in a way no one else ever did.

Maybe you encouraged one another to be strong or to embrace who you genuinely were as a person.

Or maybe your relationship with them opened your eyes to what you truly needed in your life.

Regardless of what the reasoning was, it’s okay to acknowledge that .... that person meant a lot to you.

And it's okay if they still do.

It’s also okay that they aren’t in your life anymore.

What alot of people dont understand is, not every relationship we encounter will last a lifetime.

You shouldn't be lingering in the past questioning why everything happened the way it did.

What you need to do .... is to take what you've learned from that relationship and move forward in your life.

Knowing there are other relationships that will give you exactly what you've always dreamed of and more.

I need you to know that you're not going to feel this way forever.

You will continue to move forward and you will continue to grow with everyday that passes.

Take my advice and remember ....

Sometimes the people you wanted as part of your story, are only meant to be a chapter.

~ Cody Bret

01/23/2024

This is what grief is.
A hole ripped through the very fabric of your being.
The hole eventually heals along the jagged edges that remain. It may even shrink in size.
But that hole will always be there.
A piece of you always missing.
For where there is deep grief, there was great love.
Don’t be ashamed of your grief.
Don’t judge it.
Don’t suppress it.
Don’t rush it.
Rather, acknowledge it.
Lean into it.
Listen to it.
Feel it.
Sit with it.
Sit with the pain. And remember the love.
This is where the healing will begin.

01/19/2024

💙💙💙

We all grieve; some more than others. Grief goes beyond death—it accompanies any loss (love, divorce, betrayal, job loss, etc.). Crucial to grasp: grief transforms us. We don’t exit a season of grief unchanged. Embracing this shift softens its impact. 💙

01/01/2024

Happy 2024! 🎆