Janine Joly-DeMars, Author at Lindsey Hoskins & Associates

Rate, Tone, and Volume: Give Yourself, and Everyone Around You, the Gift of More Effective Communication

in Blog December 20, 2020 261 0 1

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas Eve to those celebrating! While this entry is not explicitly festive, I would invite you to consider how the tools discussed here may be particularly applicable to life during this unusual and rather disrupted...

Behind the Veil of Expertise: A Brief Interview with My Husband

in Blog October 18, 2020 435 0 2

As a couple therapist who is also married, I occasionally receive questions about how my work impacts my own relationship. In order to explore this subject as thoroughly as possible, I decided to interview the other expert on my marriage—my...

Part II: How to Challenge Systemic Racism through Cognitive Restructuring

in Blog August 17, 2020 495 0 2

This blog post is PART TWO of a two-part series. The first post was published on June 11, 2020: click here to catch up! In Part I of this series I exhort white readers—who may be unfamiliar with and/or resistant … Continue reading...

Part I: Systemic Racism is Failing White People, Too

in Blog June 8, 2020 615 0 3

This year has seen the murders of Ahmaud Arbery on February 23, Breonna Taylor on March 13, and George Floyd on May 25. In the last two weeks, protests against police brutality and systemic racial inequality have reverberated across the &hellip...

(Self)-Love in the Time of COVID-19

in Blog March 16, 2020 637 0 3

The spread of the novel coronavirus in our area has disrupted life to some degree for all of us, and to a significant degree for some of us. In addition to hygienic prevention—e.g. proper and frequent handwashing and sanitation of &hellip...

What’s Better than 12 Drummers Drumming?

in Blog December 22, 2019 403 0 1

I was rereading my seasonal blog post from this time last year to prepare for writing this, and I think a lot of the points still hold up: please check it out if you, like myself, are one of the … Continue reading →

Make Better Use of Time with Timeouts

in Blog October 16, 2019 664 0 2

Football season is in full swing and, even though rooting for DC dooms me to disappointment every year, it is one of my favorite sports to watch. Effective football strategy often reveals intrapsychic and interpersonal insight which is just as...

Reflections on Self-Talk: What You Say To Yourself Matters

in Blog August 3, 2019 958 0 4

There is almost no problem I encounter in therapy that is not at least somewhat connected to self-talk—and the right modification in self-talk can help with almost every interpersonal and intrapsychic problem imaginable. Self-talk comprises all...

Part Two: This is What’s Up, Docs!

in Uncategorized May 21, 2019 741 0 1

This blog post is PART TWO of a two-part series. The first post was published on March 14: click here to read! In Part One of this series I established that the physician population is need of robust, specialized, and … Continue reading...

What’s Up, Docs?

in Blog March 11, 2019 988 0 4

Myriad variables impact how a couple or individual shows up in therapy. These include demographic pieces, such as age, race, religion, ethnicity, cultural background, immigration history, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or gender...

A Still Unfinished Story About Healing

in Blog January 23, 2019 1082 0 4

Individual Therapy Bethesda, MD Often, and very often recently, my blog entries identify a general problem and either offer a new way of thinking about that problem or recommend a specific course of action to solve it. Those are well-intended...

Happy ‘Good Enough’ Holidays!

in Blog December 16, 2018 814 0 4

Individual Counseling Therapy Bethesda MD The holidays are prime moment to operationalize all the self-care and self-esteem you have been diligently and painstakingly learning and practicing and re-learning and revising since the year began—and...