by Joelle Lazar | Aug 19, 2024 | Couples, Families, Uncategorized, Vancouver
If you and your spouse rarely fight, and being together feels effortless, then you are both unicorns and don’t need to read this article! If you are like the rest of us, being in a long term committed relationship often requires Herculean patience. Many of us haven’t...
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 | 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....
