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Noyau Wellness Center rings in the holidays with free counseling services formilitary families

It's no secret that the holiday season brings as much joy and glad tidings as it does stress and anxiety. When the idealized version of the holidays comes face to face with domestic spats, financial woes and the like, it's a situation that's hard to process.

Happily, Noyau Wellness Center is here to help.

"We do tend to see an increase in clients during the holidays," says senior therapist and Noyau co-founder Angela Taylor. "There's so much pressure involved with family, obligations and expectations [that] a lot of people have a hard time navigating it all."

This is amplified for members of the military, police officers and firefighters, who face uncertainty every day on the job.

That's why the center offers free counseling for first responders and their families dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder. There is no time limit on the Heroes Left Behind program.

"We want to do everything we can to help these heroes heal, no matter how long that takes," Taylor says.

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Dallas climbs back up in ranking of 'World's Best Cities' for 2025

Downtown Dallas skyline

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Dallas had made a major leap back into the top 50.

Dallas has made a big rebound in its status among the top 100 best cities in the world, according to a prestigious new report by Resonance Consultancy.

The Canada-based real estate and tourism marketing advisors ranked Dallas the 55th best city worldwide for 2025 in its annual "World's Best Cities" list.

A ranking of 55 might not seem all that, but it represents a major rebound after Dallas plummeted to No. 73 in last year's report. (Let's ignore the fact that, in 2022, Dallas ranked No. 47.)

London held onto its crown as the No. 1 best city in the world for 2025, followed by New York (No. 2), Paris (No. 3), Tokyo (No. 4), and Singapore (No. 5).

The report quantifies the relative qualities of livability, "lovability," and prosperity for the world's top 100 cities with metropolitan populations of 1 million or more. New to the 10th anniversary edition, Resonance partnered with global market researchers Ipsos to include perception-based data into the rankings, surveying over 22,000 people in 30 countries worldwide to determine "the most desirable places to visit, live or work."

Resonance refers to its previous "World's Best Cities" reports and its 2024 "America's Best Cities" list – which ranked Dallas in the top 20 – when explaining the city's successes. The report praised Dallas' booming population, a thriving corporate economy, and its diverse culture.

"From 2021 to 2022, Dallas experienced the largest population increase of any U.S. metro area, with a net increase of more than 170,000 people, according to the Census Bureau," the report's author wrote. "Home to more than 10,000 corporate headquarters — the largest concentration in the U.S. — the city ranks No. 33 globally for Fortune 500 companies."

Elsewhere in Texas, Austin and Houston also earned spots on the World's Best Cities list for 2025, but only one made a similar rebound from the previous year's rankings. Houston moved up from No. 66 in last year's report to its current rank as No. 40. Meanwhile, Austin took its first tumble out of the 43rd spot (which it had occupied for two years straight) and now ranks No. 53.

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