Quies Christian Counseling Services, LLC

12/17/2025

We are excited to introduce you to our newest intern, Holly Wilkes! Holly comes with a great deal of experience and is looking forward to working with individuals of all ages. Contact us today to get scheduled with her.

12/14/2025

11/30/2025

The holiday season brings varying responses from people. Join us for the latest episode of The Gathering Place!

11/29/2025

Holidays can bring up a significant amount of grief. Instead of disappearing until January and avoiding them altogether, or forcing smiles and faking your way through, Sue Bowles offers another way. In this blog, she provides six tips to manage grief differently this year.

Go to the link in bio to read the full post.

11/27/2025

We would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy time with your family and friends!

If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, call 911 or head to the nearest emergency room, or call 988 (The 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline.

11/27/2025

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11/09/2025

We carry more than we realize. It’s not just our parents’ eyes or the curve of a smile that shows up in the mirror. It’s the weight of their unspoken stories, the emotions they never had the language or safety to name. Sometimes it’s in the way we tense when someone raises their voice, or how we chase approval without knowing why. These things live quietly in us, shaping how we love, how we fear, how we move through the world.

The psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés writes that what is wounded in one generation often seeks expression in the next. It is as if the soul of a family keeps trying to finish a story that was cut short. That thought used to scare me, this idea that we might be carrying the echoes of other people’s pain. But the more I sit with it, the more I see it as an invitation. We are not doomed to repeat what came before; we are invited to bring it into the light. Awareness itself is a kind of healing.

Virginia Woolf once said that each of us must face the fact of our inheritance, not to be bound by it, but to understand it. She was speaking about women and creativity, but her words reach further. Facing what we have inherited, emotionally and psychologically, means looking with compassion at the people who raised us, and at the younger versions of ourselves who learned from them. It means asking what love was supposed to look like in our family, what silence was protecting, what was never finished.

When we begin to ask those questions, something shifts. The patterns that once felt inevitable start to loosen. We realize that what we have been carrying is not all ours to keep. Some of it belongs to the generations before us, and some of it we can finally lay down.

That is the quiet work of becoming whole, not rejecting where we come from, but transforming it. We take the unfinished stories, the griefs, the hopes, and we give them a new ending. Not perfect, not final, but honest. And in doing so, we offer the next generation something lighter to inherit, a story that has been seen, felt, and finally tended to.