Joy Radish Psychotherapy & Healing Works

05/24/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhDHnwxbXpw&t=164s

I'm very pleased to share the film we created this year for Witness Theatre, which premiered on May 19, 2021. Here is a description of the work and the piece:

"Holocaust Survivors gathered virtually with a group of high school students from schools across New York. For months they shared stories and built relationships. This unique video performance honors the survivors’ stories, celebrating these extraordinary individuals and highlighting the life-changing lessons they’ve shared with the students."

In memory of Eva Firestone

Featuring Holocaust survivors: Ellen Bottner, Jehuda Evron, Judith Koeppel Steel, and Fred Zeilberger

Featuring Students: Priscilla Baranoff, Renee Cohen, Rochelle Hafif, Shirin Khasanova, Aaron Lusak, Nico Palazzi, Say Paw, and Corrinthea Washington

How We Stand Together premieres on Wednesday, May 19th at 7:00PM EST. Holocaust Survivors gathered virtually with a group of high school students from school...

07/28/2020

For those of you who have asked about seeing our Witness Theatre video, “Essential Stories”, it’s up now on both Facebook and YouTube! It was truly a labor of love for us to find a way to shift modalities from theatre to film in the midst of the pandemic; and I hope we succeeded in honoring the survivors. Thanks for viewing!

05/17/2019

Few words this week, yet a lot of rage..

05/13/2019

It is said that when we look directly into the fearsome face of the Void, or, “All That We Avoid” the seeming monsters we have spent years trying to hide from turn into visions of absolute beauty. The irony is that it is not the monsters that change, it is our perspective that changes. Everything we see comes from a projection of how we have taught ourselves to see.
The heart of recovery, healing, and psychotherapy is just this: we learn how we have labeled parts of ourselves or parts of our life as scary or gruesome, and gradually take steps closer to those fearsome places. At some point when we have the supports in place, we look directly into the faces of those monsters, and usually the gruesomeness melts away. We become less afraid of the Void we used to fear, and with that we have more energy available to live, to REALLY live.
As I have been facing more and more of the in my own life, I have become more dedicated to my work as a therapist and healer. Made some updates about offerings on my website, including sliding scale &
www.joyworks.nyc

05/13/2019