by Joelle Lazar | Jul 23, 2023 | Families, From the Heart, Uncategorized, Vancouver
Help For Parents of Very Challenging Teens: If you are struggling to parent a very challenging teen, you are not alone, and there is help! In this information age where our kids are ruled by their iphones, insta feeds, tic toc, and snapchat, it’s increasingly...
by Joelle Lazar | Dec 30, 2022 | Emotional Wellbeing, Families, Therapists
Get the help you and your partner need with Couples Therapy For Insecure Attachment in Vancouver, BC. Most of us come to intimate relationships with insecure attachment strategies that make it difficult to be compassionate when our partner is being annoying and...
by Joelle Lazar | May 20, 2022 | Emotional Wellbeing
Because anxiety is distressing, most people try to avoid it but then our brains don’t learn how to cope with anxiety and it ends up being in the driver seat of our lives. Listening to anxiety is a path to resolve the underlying emotional conflict that drives it....
by Joelle Lazar | Sep 19, 2020 | Emotional Wellbeing, Families, Recovery, Uncategorized
Do you suspect you have a Narcissist or someone with narcissistic traits in your life? Does that person make you feel like your needs and feelings are unacceptable? The Narcissist has an uncanny way of manipulating others in their quest to achieve the perfect image....
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...
by Joelle Lazar | Jun 5, 2017 | Emotional Wellbeing, From the Heart
We don’t have to conform with an image of beauty that is artificial, and beyond our reach. Many people are tormented by toxic beliefs about the unworthiness of their body. Negative body image can perpetuate an unhealthy relationship with food, or in more extreme cases...
