Lynn Lott Therapy Talk

Come to Lynn Lott with questions and leave
with answers that enrich your life and
the lives of others

I noticed that I recently got a lot of new subscribers from Poland.  That’s exciting and I’m glad to know that folks around the world are interested in the issues I write about.  I’d love to hear from you, though I don’t speak Polish, to learn more about what brings you to this blog site.  I’m not much of a techie, so I’m also wondering if folks comment, is your comment appearing on my blog.  I haven’t gotten any comments for a long time, which makes me suspect that I’ve made some mistake on setting up the blog site.  If any of you brave souls want to help me with that research by sending me a comment, I’d appreciate it.  If there’s any subject you are interested in, let me know, and if I’m interested, too, I’ll blog about it.

Quite often I get a notice that someone has registered as a new user to my blog.  Consider this a welcome to all of you who have signed on, belated as it may be.  I would love to know what brings you here, but in the meantime, thanks for becoming part of this little slice of the Internet.  If there are topics of interest, let me know.  If you’d like more information about some of the things I write about, feel free to ask.  I especially appreciate knowing that I’m not the only one reading my entries.

I’ve been a bit silent these days because it is ski season.  That means that when I’m not working or hanging out with my grandkids, I’m hitting the slopes.  Hope  you have something in your life you enjoy as much as I enjoy skiing.  I’ve been doing it since I was a kid and I look forward to it being  part of my life for years to come.

Other people blog, but not me. At least that was what I thought, but the temptation is too strong. I want to create a blog that’s as therapeutic as a jacuzzi. After all, I am a therapist, and I spend most of my waking hours helping people feel better and do better. I’ve got a lot to say on the subject, and not all of it agrees with the conventional wisdom. Perhaps very little matches the conventional wisdom, but that will be for you to decide. Everyone has an opinion and obviously I have mine, so it’s time I put it out there for folks who don’t show up in my office or call me on the phone or email with a request for help. I welcome your comments and questions and will do my best to respond, though given how little I know about blogging, I may be the only person who reads this.

Therapy is about having the desire to grow and change and to be open to possibilities. If you have the desire to grow and become aware of what is happening around you and your part in all of it, and if you can accept that what is, is, amazingly, many options present themselves. Options include changing your thoughts, changing your feelings, and/or changing your behavior. They’re all inter-linked, so if you change one, all the rest change, too. All of this can be done without drugs, though modern day thinking would have you believe otherwise. But more on this as we get to know each other better. For now, open yourself to the iconcept that drug-free is a possibility.

My model for therapy is an encouragement and empowerment model instead of a disease model. I believe that when relationships aren’t working (with kids, spouses, friends, family, self) it’s because we’re discouraged, not sick. If that’s true, than we need to look for ways to feel encouraged, and there are lots of those around. One of the ways I encouraged myself was to take a road trip. A lot can be learned doing something out of the ordinary and allowing yourself to follow a dream. If you’d like to read my trip journal, check it out at Road Trip.