Lotz Therapy

12/20/2025

5 days until Christmas! My TOP TEN PRO TIPS for engaging with toxic relatives during the holidays.

Whether you're visiting relatives or relatives are visiting you, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO:

1. Disengage from conversation topics that drain your energy.
2. Arrange accommodations for you & your kids that are supportive of your sleep. Critical.
3. Take micro-breaks away from others when needed.
4. Provide for yourself the snacks / foods that nourish your brain & energy levels.
5. Prevent your children from giving hugs or kisses they aren’t comfortable extending.
6. Not participate in resolving issues between other relatives.
7. Act on your own experiences & ignore others when they say “I know better.”
8. Limit access to your home, vehicle, belongings, territory.
9. Have your own rules, expectations, & holiday traditions.
10. Manage your resources: money, time, and effort.

12/18/2025

Bravo. 👏🏼🍦

12/15/2025

Ten days until Christmas! 🎅🏼 🎁

Thought of all my clients as I saw this meme. Remember, we've been training for this! 🤣🧠🎄

12/11/2025

🚨Christmas in 2 weeks from today! 🚨 Breathe.🌬️ I got you.

Here are 3 Top Tier tools I use to help my clients reduce their holiday-related stress & anxiety:

1. Commit to less travel;
2. Prioritize maintenance of sleep schedules;
3. Emphasize experiences versus gifts.

12/08/2025

📢 Cold 🧊 is key in activating the "Mammalian Dive Reflex" which calms anxiety and stress and slows your heart rate. Provides quick and natural relief from intense emotions.

Been teaching cold exposure to my child clients at work and they love it. Especially my elementary-aged clients.

They think it's fun and silly & I love they can do it at home inexpensively.

1) Fill large (I like popcorn-sized) bowl with cold water and ice.

2) Lean forward comfortably.

3) Take a deep breath.

4) Submerge your face for 10-30 seconds.

5) When you need to breathe, come up and exhale slowly.

6) Repeat as needed for deeper calm. No, you can't live inside the ice bowl in pursuit of the deepest calm.

12/04/2025

Mysteriously, the Internet's made us all 'experts' in everything. Yikes.

Humility: 0
Confirmation bias: 100

12/01/2025

24 days to Christmas. I'll help you be ready. There's a very fine line between 'venting for catharsis' and simply complaining. An important line. These two solutions help us vent not complain:

1) Practicing gratitude.

2) Solution-oriented complaining helps us experience needed catharsis while also insulating our listener from contracting secondhand poopiness.💩

In respect to gratitude, I've enjoyed a FREE gratitude app (in the comments) for last 5+ years & like it.

Texts me at a chosen time each day & I type in 3 things I'm grateful for that day. 21 days of this and one's brain is better primed for scanning the world for good things.

You've got just enough time to get some gratitude neurologically loaded in before relatives invade.

You can’t blame your brain. Who’d want to build a temporary bridge every time you need to cross a river? It makes more sense to construct a bridge.

11/27/2025

🤣 Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 I'm thankful for YOU. 🍁🍂🙏

11/25/2025

Ugh. Hope your Thanksgiving ends up not having social inappropriateness on the menu! 🦃

Regardless, I look forward to hearing about it all when you come back... 🍁🍂🙏

11/23/2025

Been serving teenagers from South daily since 2017 in my private practice, so it meant a ton being invited to attend today's production of "Anything Goes."

The quality of this performance was COMPLETELY ASTOUNDING. Go see any production at this school!

11/21/2025

Congrats, Jelly Roll! THREE 2025 Grammy noms! Well-deserved! My son & I love you! *language alert*

11/20/2025