Submitted by Irene Javors, LMHC
“The unknown takes us out of our comfort zone.”
From What About The Big Stuff?, Richard Carlson, Ph.D. Hyperion, 2002, p.20.
Whatever change that either happens to us or we willingly undertake always has an element of fear. We love our habits of being. Even taking a shower at a different time of [...]

By Irene Javors, LMHC
There is is restaurant/ bar in my Jackson Heights neighborhood that has been around for some 60 years. Everyone knows the place. The food isn’t very good but the drinks are great and the bartender knows everyone by first name. When you walk into the place, you feel that you have entered [...]

By Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D.
2009 is drawing to a close. Only a few more days left to realize those New Year’s Resolutions. Oh, don’t you remember? Those aspirations from earlier this year that you wanted to achieve? Well, fear not, regardless of whether or not you realized them (or can even remember [...]