by Joelle Lazar | May 16, 2020 | Emotional Wellbeing, Families, From the Heart, Uncategorized
The enemy is not your partner, it’s the distress cycle. It causes those unsettling doubts about whether your relationship is a forever home. It drives fear that your partner is incapable of loving and accepting you for who you are. It’s your distress cycle with your...
by Joelle Lazar | Apr 11, 2020 | Emotional Wellbeing, From the Heart, Uncategorized
The Covid19 pandemic has had a profound affect on our world and how we move through it. Whatever you are feeling right now is deserving of kindness and attention. While we would never have invited this pandemic, paradoxically it is giving many of us the opportunity to...
by Joelle Lazar | Jan 31, 2020 | Emotional Wellbeing, Families, Uncategorized
“It’s not your fault”. These are the words that people with depression don’t hear often enough. Depression is not an emotion but a fortress that traps a person body, mind, and soul. Well meaning friends and loved ones’ efforts to offer solutions are often futile....
by Joelle Lazar | Jul 4, 2019 | Emotional Wellbeing, From the Heart, Therapists, Uncategorized
My client, Betty, was told that she has treatment resistant depression, bipolar 2, and borderline personality traits. She started each new type of therapy or program believing that it was the magic bullet. This would inevitably result in disappointment. Psychiatrist...
by Joelle Lazar | Jan 28, 2019 | Emotional Wellbeing, Recovery
John, my client, is weeping. Sobs grip his body. The sound of them, and his posture, tell me that John is dissociated from his present moment self – a 55 year old man, and successful real estate agent who is years ahead of the trauma he lived through. John,” I...
