Lolita Baker, MA, LPC

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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. 💜

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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.

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

Today marks twenty-five years since the September 11th attacks, and it's a day that still sits heavy for so many of us.

I remember exactly where I was. I remember the confusion, the fear, the way an entire nation felt something together at the same time, even from a distance. Some days leave a mark on us collectively, not just individually, and this is one of them.

We hold this day with reverence for the lives lost, for the first responders who ran toward danger instead of away from it, and for every family who has carried a kind of grief that doesn't fully go away. It just becomes something you learn to live alongside.

Trauma, whether it's collective or deeply personal, doesn't ask permission before it changes us. But healing is still possible, even from the days that reshape everything. We believe that deeply, and it's part of why this work matters so much to us.

Today, we remember.

-Lo**ta & the LITD Team

Taking a few days to sharpen our minds and refresh our spirits…

We’re here!!! The LITD team is at the American Association of Christian Counselors National conference. We’re a team that commits to taking the time to sharpen our skills and refresh our spirits. There’s something unifying about being with over 2500 of our colleagues from every state and across the world all coming together - especially today. We’ll post more throughout our time here…

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3 doesn't just describe the good seasons. It names weeping and laughing, breaking down and building up, all in the same breath, all as part of the same faithful rhythm.

We tend to want to skip straight to the harvest season and avoid the planting one. But scripture doesn't treat any season as more legitimate than another. The waiting season matters. The building season matters. So does the one that finally opens into something new.

If you're in a season right now that doesn't feel like the "good" kind, you're not off track. You're just in a different verse of the same chapter.