Love on the Autism Spectrum - Honest Guidance for Neurodivergent Relationships in Midlife

Episode 49: Freeze, Fawn, and the Fear of Vulnerability in ND Love

If being emotionally open feels like walking a tightrope, this episode is for you. It’s for the partner who goes blank in hard conversations, the partner who rushes to smooth everything over, and the couple who walks away from every argument feeling alone.

Blaze explains freeze and fawn, two of the eight protective trauma responses, as old strategies formed in childhood rather than flaws. Freeze looks like going blank or disappearing inside yourself. Fawn looks like people-pleasing and over-explaining to avoid conflict. Sometimes we shut down not because we don’t care, but because we care so much it overwhelms the system. Drawing on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, she returns to safety, and offers a playful reframe: conflict can be an invitation to clarity.

Maya fawns and Elias freezes, so Maya talks faster to fix things while Elias goes silent just to survive the moment. In session they built a map for safety: daily check-ins with no emotional agenda, hand signals for “timeout” and “come closer,” and a shared code word for “I’m overwhelmed” that needs no explanation. The Home Play: at the end of the day, ask whether you froze or fawned, and what or who you were protecting. Just notice. No fixing needed.

One Emotional Takeaway: Freeze and fawn aren’t dysfunction. They’re invitations to slow down and build more safety together.

Weekly Companion Blog Post: When an Emotionally Unavailable Partner is Too Much → loveontheautismspectrum.com/emotionally-unavailable/

#FreezeResponse #FawnResponse #EmotionalVulnerability #NeurodiverseCouples #TraumaResponses #LoveOnTheAutismSpectrum

Start here — the free guide that gently names the pattern: ✨ You're Not Too Much. You're Just Alone in the Repair. → link.blazelazarony.com/youre-not-too-much

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Explore more tools, relationship guidance, and weekly blog posts at: 🌐 loveontheautismspectrum.com

Catch up on more episodes: 🎧 loveontheautismspectrum.com/podcast

Read deeper reflections and behind-the-scenes writing on Substack: ✉️ blazelazarony.substack.com

For behind-the-scenes reflections and bonus content, follow along on Instagram: 📸 @BlazeLazarony

The book — daily reflections for coming home to who you really are: 📚 Unmasked Self-Acceptance → amazon.com/dp/B0GLGX2HFK

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Listening does not create a therapeutic relationship or provide individualized advice.

Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT #151788, is licensed in California. All examples are fictional and used for illustration only.

If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 or contact local emergency services.

Episode 48: Why I Thought I Was Just Lazy for 40 Years

Bills forgotten, laundry piled up, an afternoon lost staring at the wall while the to-do list grew. For decades, a lot of women have carried one word for all of it: lazy. This episode is for the adult who has worn that label like a sticker on her forehead, and for anyone who has called themselves scatterbrained, flaky, or irresponsible without ever asking where the name came from.

Blaze separates two things that get treated as one. Laziness implies not caring. ADHD is a brain-based difference, and the freeze, the distraction, and the silence are a nervous system processing the world differently, not a lack of effort. She also names why so many women are diagnosed late: early assessments were built around how ADHD looked in boys, and girls and gender-nonconforming people were simply missed.

Joanne’s story carries the episode: ten half-finished projects in every room, overdue library books rolling around the trunk, and a diagnosis that brought grief for the wasted years and relief at the same time. She wasn’t broken, she was misnamed. The Home Play is gentle: notice the nicknames you give yourself, and when “lazy” shows up, replace it out loud with “I’m wired differently, and that’s okay.”

One Emotional Takeaway: You were never lazy. You were misnamed, and you are already worthy of love and rest.

#ADHDinWomen #LateDiagnosis #NotLazy #ADHDShame #NeurodivergentWomen #LoveOnTheAutismSpectrum

Start here — the free guide that gently names the pattern: ✨ You're Not Too Much. You're Just Alone in the Repair. → link.blazelazarony.com/youre-not-too-much

Ready to talk? Book a FREE 20-minute "Clarity & Connection" Zoom session: 📅 link.blazelazarony.com/Book-C-and-C-Zoom

Explore more tools, relationship guidance, and weekly blog posts at: 🌐 loveontheautismspectrum.com

Catch up on more episodes: 🎧 loveontheautismspectrum.com/podcast

Read deeper reflections and behind-the-scenes writing on Substack: ✉️ blazelazarony.substack.com

For behind-the-scenes reflections and bonus content, follow along on Instagram: 📸 @BlazeLazarony

The book — daily reflections for coming home to who you really are: 📚 Unmasked Self-Acceptance → amazon.com/dp/B0GLGX2HFK

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Listening does not create a therapeutic relationship or provide individualized advice.

Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT #151788, is licensed in California. All examples are fictional and used for illustration only.

If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 or contact local emergency services.

Episode 47: ADHD in Adult Women: Missed, Masked, and Misunderstood

You hold the job, raise the kids, and show up for everyone, and still wonder why life feels harder for you than for others. This episode is for the adult woman whose ADHD was missed under layers of masking, perfectionism, and self-criticism, and whose nervous system has been running on fumes behind a functioning exterior.

Blaze’s central reframe is that ADHD isn’t only about what happens in your mind. It shows up in your whole body: shoulders creeping toward your ears, arms that feel like you’re slogging through peanut butter, heat in your chest when rejection sensitivity hits. These cues are your nervous system asking for regulation, not judgment. She also walks through the three presentations of ADHD: hyperactive-impulsive, inattentive (the “adulting” struggle), and combined.

Marissa used to sit at her desk, unable to start a report, calling herself lazy, until she noticed a clenched jaw, cold hands, and a buzzing chest. She wasn’t unmotivated, she was frozen. Small resets helped: a warm mug against her chest, shaking out her arms, cold water on her face. The Home Play is to name it, scan for where you feel it, make one small shift like humming or rolling your shoulders, and whisper: this is wiring, not weakness.

One Emotional Takeaway: Healing doesn’t have to be perfect to be powerful. This is wiring, not weakness.

Weekly Companion Blog Post: ADHD in Adult Women: You’re Not Lazy—You’re Exhausted → loveontheautismspectrum.com/adhd-in-adult-women/

#ADHDinWomen #InattentiveADHD #SomaticRegulation #FreezeResponse #ADHDAssessment #LoveOnTheAutismSpectrum

Start here — the free guide that gently names the pattern: ✨ You're Not Too Much. You're Just Alone in the Repair. → link.blazelazarony.com/youre-not-too-much

Ready to talk? Book a FREE 20-minute "Clarity & Connection" Zoom session: 📅 link.blazelazarony.com/Book-C-and-C-Zoom

Explore more tools, relationship guidance, and weekly blog posts at: 🌐 loveontheautismspectrum.com

Catch up on more episodes: 🎧 loveontheautismspectrum.com/podcast

Read deeper reflections and behind-the-scenes writing on Substack: ✉️ blazelazarony.substack.com

For behind-the-scenes reflections and bonus content, follow along on Instagram: 📸 @BlazeLazarony

The book — daily reflections for coming home to who you really are: 📚 Unmasked Self-Acceptance → amazon.com/dp/B0GLGX2HFK

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Listening does not create a therapeutic relationship or provide individualized advice.

Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT #151788, is licensed in California. All examples are fictional and used for illustration only.

If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 or contact local emergency services.

Episode 46: Our First Telehealth Couples Therapy: Separate Rooms, Same House

Some couples can only start therapy from two different rooms of the same house, and that is a perfectly good place to begin. This episode is for the partner who feels like you’re living with a stranger, and for the one who has been reaching for space because being close feels like too much right now.

Blaze explains why the same word can land so differently. For one partner, space felt like distance and free fall. For the other, space was an attempt at safety, a way to settle a body already at capacity. Both were protecting themselves, and neither realized they were also protecting themselves from each other. She also explains why she asks rather than assumes: “I’m noticing your jaw looks tight. Did I get that right?”

Alex and Taylor logged in from the kitchen and the bedroom. Their first Home Play was simply to share one room, chairs at opposite ends, so their bodies could learn that being together wasn’t a threat. Then came two-minute turns, “I feel” and “I need” language, and a five-minute pre-dinner check-in about how each of them is, not logistics. By week three: “We’re not fixed, but something is different.”

One Emotional Takeaway: Your first session doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to be honest enough to begin.

#TelehealthCouplesTherapy #NeurodiverseCouples #SafetyInDoses #CouplesCheckIn #NervousSystemSafety #LoveOnTheAutismSpectrum

Start here — the free guide that gently names the pattern: ✨ You're Not Too Much. You're Just Alone in the Repair. → link.blazelazarony.com/youre-not-too-much

Ready to talk? Book a FREE 20-minute "Clarity & Connection" Zoom session: 📅 link.blazelazarony.com/Book-C-and-C-Zoom

Explore more tools, relationship guidance, and weekly blog posts at: 🌐 loveontheautismspectrum.com

Catch up on more episodes: 🎧 loveontheautismspectrum.com/podcast

Read deeper reflections and behind-the-scenes writing on Substack: ✉️ blazelazarony.substack.com

For behind-the-scenes reflections and bonus content, follow along on Instagram: 📸 @BlazeLazarony

The book — daily reflections for coming home to who you really are: 📚 Unmasked Self-Acceptance → amazon.com/dp/B0GLGX2HFK

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Listening does not create a therapeutic relationship or provide individualized advice.

Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT #151788, is licensed in California. All examples are fictional and used for illustration only.

If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 or contact local emergency services.

Episode 45: Neurodiverse Therapy for Couples: How Specialized Support Can Rebuild Connection

Maybe you and your partner have already seen two, three, or five therapists and left each one convinced you’re broken or headed for divorce. This episode is for neurodiverse couples who feel like they’re speaking different languages, and for anyone wondering whether couples therapy is worth trying again.

Blaze explains what makes neurodiverse couples therapy different: it starts from the fact that your brains and nervous systems work differently, a reality to understand rather than a problem to solve. She still uses familiar approaches like Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, cognitive behavioral couples therapy, and trauma-informed work, but adapted, and built from the ground up starting with sensory sensitivities. Nobody is there to get fixed.

Jamie answered “we don’t talk anymore” with a list of times they’d been in the same room, until Chris learned to say “when you don’t respond, I feel invisible” and Jamie learned to reply, “I hear you.” Lee and Marco, conflict-avoidant for years, used three-minute stress-reducing talks, and three weeks later they were laughing again. The Home Play is a short check-in where one partner speaks, the other only listens, and you switch the next day.

One Emotional Takeaway: It isn’t about a perfect relationship. It’s about one where both of you can be real, safe, and seen.

Weekly Companion Blog Post: Neurodiverse Therapy for Couples: Building Stronger Bonds → loveontheautismspectrum.com/neurodiverse-therapy-for-couples/

#NeurodiverseCouplesTherapy #EmotionallyFocusedTherapy #GottmanMethod #NeurodiverseCouples #CouplesCheckIn #LoveOnTheAutismSpectrum

Start here — the free guide that gently names the pattern: ✨ You're Not Too Much. You're Just Alone in the Repair. → link.blazelazarony.com/youre-not-too-much

Ready to talk? Book a FREE 20-minute "Clarity & Connection" Zoom session: 📅 link.blazelazarony.com/Book-C-and-C-Zoom

Explore more tools, relationship guidance, and weekly blog posts at: 🌐 loveontheautismspectrum.com

Catch up on more episodes: 🎧 loveontheautismspectrum.com/podcast

Read deeper reflections and behind-the-scenes writing on Substack: ✉️ blazelazarony.substack.com

For behind-the-scenes reflections and bonus content, follow along on Instagram: 📸 @BlazeLazarony

The book — daily reflections for coming home to who you really are: 📚 Unmasked Self-Acceptance → amazon.com/dp/B0GLGX2HFK

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Listening does not create a therapeutic relationship or provide individualized advice.

Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT #151788, is licensed in California. All examples are fictional and used for illustration only.

If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 or contact local emergency services.

Episode 44: Loving Someone Who Feels Far Away: A Story of Emotional Distance and Repair

You’re sitting right next to the person you love most, and it feels like there’s a pane of glass between you. This episode is for the partner who keeps silently thinking “look at me, say something,” and for the partner on the other side of that glass who is simply out of capacity at the end of the day.

Blaze reframes what the glass actually is. For the quieter partner, it’s a shield against a day’s worth of sensory and emotional input and the risk of saying the wrong thing. In one mind, silence means disconnection; in the other’s body, silence means survival. Nothing here is broken. It’s a misattunement, and the distance itself can become something a couple names and works with together, like a third presence on the sofa.

The story is one quiet evening: a TV nobody is watching, a lamp’s warm glow, and resentment slowly building after weeks of questions that only pushed the other person further away. The turning point was tiny. One hand resting close on the couch, asking for nothing, and a few minutes later the other hand settling on top. From there came micro-repairs: silly memes, small notes, time spent quietly together.

One Emotional Takeaway: The absence of words isn’t the absence of love. Ask what the silence might be protecting.

#EmotionalDistance #MicroRepair #NeurodiverseCouples #SilenceIsNotRejection #SensoryOverload #LoveOnTheAutismSpectrum

Start here — the free guide that gently names the pattern: ✨ You're Not Too Much. You're Just Alone in the Repair. → link.blazelazarony.com/youre-not-too-much

Ready to talk? Book a FREE 20-minute "Clarity & Connection" Zoom session: 📅 link.blazelazarony.com/Book-C-and-C-Zoom

Explore more tools, relationship guidance, and weekly blog posts at: 🌐 loveontheautismspectrum.com

Catch up on more episodes: 🎧 loveontheautismspectrum.com/podcast

Read deeper reflections and behind-the-scenes writing on Substack: ✉️ blazelazarony.substack.com

For behind-the-scenes reflections and bonus content, follow along on Instagram: 📸 @BlazeLazarony

The book — daily reflections for coming home to who you really are: 📚 Unmasked Self-Acceptance → amazon.com/dp/B0GLGX2HFK

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Listening does not create a therapeutic relationship or provide individualized advice.

Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT #151788, is licensed in California. All examples are fictional and used for illustration only.

If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 or contact local emergency services.

Episode 43: How to Reconnect with an Emotionally Unavailable Partner in a Neurodiverse Relationship

If you’ve been knocking on a door that never seems to open, this episode is for you. It’s for the relational partner who feels invisible at the end of the day, and for the neurodivergent partner for whom a request to connect can feel like walking into a room that’s already too bright, too loud, and too hot.

Blaze explains that in neurodiverse relationships, emotional unavailability is often a protection reflex, not a rejection: a nervous system that has reached capacity. She names the pursue-withdraw cycle, the way medication can wear off by evening, and her five-finger check: if you’re hungry, tired, thirsty, need the bathroom, or overstimulated, good conversations and good decisions are out of reach.

Alex, autistic and working in IT, came home spent, and Maya, a nurse who processes her day through conversation, met him at the door with stories. Mapping their evenings as a nervous system cycle changed things: Alex took 20 to 30 minutes of quiet decompression, and Maya jotted her stories in a small notebook to share later. Connection started to feel possible, even easy, once both worked with each other’s regulation needs.

One Emotional Takeaway: Emotional distance isn’t always about a lack of love. It’s often about a lack of safety.

#EmotionallyUnavailablePartner #PursueWithdrawCycle #AutisticDecompression #NeurodiverseCouples #NervousSystemCapacity #LoveOnTheAutismSpectrum

Start here — the free guide that gently names the pattern: ✨ You're Not Too Much. You're Just Alone in the Repair. → link.blazelazarony.com/youre-not-too-much

Ready to talk? Book a FREE 20-minute "Clarity & Connection" Zoom session: 📅 link.blazelazarony.com/Book-C-and-C-Zoom

Explore more tools, relationship guidance, and weekly blog posts at: 🌐 loveontheautismspectrum.com

Catch up on more episodes: 🎧 loveontheautismspectrum.com/podcast

Read deeper reflections and behind-the-scenes writing on Substack: ✉️ blazelazarony.substack.com

For behind-the-scenes reflections and bonus content, follow along on Instagram: 📸 @BlazeLazarony

The book — daily reflections for coming home to who you really are: 📚 Unmasked Self-Acceptance → amazon.com/dp/B0GLGX2HFK

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Listening does not create a therapeutic relationship or provide individualized advice.

Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT #151788, is licensed in California. All examples are fictional and used for illustration only.

If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 or contact local emergency services.

Episode 42: Boundary Scripts That Actually Work (Even When You’re Overwhelmed)

Someone asks for a “quick call,” your chest tightens, your smile shows up anyway, and you hear yourself say “sure” before you’ve checked in with yourself. This episode is for the neurodivergent adult whose words vanish the moment a boundary is needed, especially if you were raised to keep the peace at all costs.

Blaze explains that this isn’t flakiness or a character flaw. A flooded nervous system needs help finding its voice, so she offers scripts instead of shame: short, respectful sentences that keep you grounded. She also notices that boundaries can feel easier at work and harder with family, and that they get easier with practice. One script is especially kind to anyone with PDA, the pathological demand avoidance profile she also calls personal drive for autonomy.

Drew, a composite client, kept saying yes to Sunday lunch and cancelling at the last minute. A two-line script, “Thanks for thinking of me. I’m not up for plans this weekend,” brought relief, and his friend simply said they’d try again when it felt right. Blaze shares three scripts, including “I’m at capacity today, and I hope it goes well” and “It’s not a yes for me right now,” and invites listeners to say one aloud today.

One Emotional Takeaway: Boundaries don’t have to be eloquent. They just have to be honest.

Weekly Companion Blog Post: Mastering Boundary Scenarios: Practical Tips for ND Relationships → loveontheautismspectrum.com/boundary-scenarios/

#BoundaryScripts #NeurodivergentBoundaries #PeoplePleasing #PDA #SayingNo #LoveOnTheAutismSpectrum

Start here — the free guide that gently names the pattern: ✨ You're Not Too Much. You're Just Alone in the Repair. → link.blazelazarony.com/youre-not-too-much

Ready to talk? Book a FREE 20-minute "Clarity & Connection" Zoom session: 📅 link.blazelazarony.com/Book-C-and-C-Zoom

Explore more tools, relationship guidance, and weekly blog posts at: 🌐 loveontheautismspectrum.com

Catch up on more episodes: 🎧 loveontheautismspectrum.com/podcast

Read deeper reflections and behind-the-scenes writing on Substack: ✉️ blazelazarony.substack.com

For behind-the-scenes reflections and bonus content, follow along on Instagram: 📸 @BlazeLazarony

The book — daily reflections for coming home to who you really are: 📚 Unmasked Self-Acceptance → amazon.com/dp/B0GLGX2HFK

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Listening does not create a therapeutic relationship or provide individualized advice.

Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT #151788, is licensed in California. All examples are fictional and used for illustration only.

If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 or contact local emergency services.

Episode 41: Why Boundaries Are So Hard, Especially When You’re the Peacemaker

You say yes with your mouth while your body says no, then lie awake replaying how you gave in again. This episode is for the neurodivergent peacemaker, at work, at home or in love, who learned to read the room long before learning to check in with themselves, and for the partner who has no idea a boundary was ever there.

Blaze explains that most neurodivergent adults were never taught boundaries. They were taught to adapt, stay easy to be around and mask. For anyone who survived through the fawn response, setting a boundary can feel like lighting a bonfire. Her reframe is simple: boundaries aren’t about control, they’re about clarity, and they make room for connection without resentment simmering underneath every “sure, no problem.”

Alina, a composite client, accommodated everything for her autistic partner and never said, “This part doesn’t work for me.” Her body enforced her unspoken boundaries through poor sleep, tension, tears and burnout. Her first step wasn’t a script but a practice of asking, “What do I need right now?” Her first spoken boundary: “I need 20 minutes alone before we talk.” The Home Play is to pause before saying yes, ask whether it comes from desire or fear, and delay the answer even ten minutes.

One Emotional Takeaway: You weren’t born without boundaries. You were simply taught to override them.

Weekly Companion Blog Post: The Life-Changing Benefits of Setting Boundaries → loveontheautismspectrum.com/setting-boundaries/

#Boundaries #PeoplePleaser #FawnResponse #NeurodiverseCouples #Masking #LoveOnTheAutismSpectrum

Start here — the free guide that gently names the pattern: ✨ You're Not Too Much. You're Just Alone in the Repair. → link.blazelazarony.com/youre-not-too-much

Ready to talk? Book a FREE 20-minute "Clarity & Connection" Zoom session: 📅 link.blazelazarony.com/Book-C-and-C-Zoom

Explore more tools, relationship guidance, and weekly blog posts at: 🌐 loveontheautismspectrum.com

Catch up on more episodes: 🎧 loveontheautismspectrum.com/podcast

Read deeper reflections and behind-the-scenes writing on Substack: ✉️ blazelazarony.substack.com

For behind-the-scenes reflections and bonus content, follow along on Instagram: 📸 @BlazeLazarony

The book — daily reflections for coming home to who you really are: 📚 Unmasked Self-Acceptance → amazon.com/dp/B0GLGX2HFK

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Listening does not create a therapeutic relationship or provide individualized advice.

Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT #151788, is licensed in California. All examples are fictional and used for illustration only.

If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 or contact local emergency services.

Episode 40: You Keep Talking and He’s Silent: What’s Really Happening in Neurodiverse Communication Patterns

You finally find the words for something you’ve been holding, you speak from your whole heart, and across from you there is only a blank stare. So you talk faster and ask, “Don’t you even care?” This episode is for the partner who talks to connect and for the partner who goes quiet to survive, both of whom leave the conversation feeling alone.

Blaze names it plainly: this is not rejection, it’s a nervous system mismatch. One partner needs connection to calm down; the other needs quiet just to stay in the room. The one who shuts down is often overwhelmed and in a freeze response their body didn’t choose. She notes how differently many of us were raised to handle words and feelings, while reminding listeners that capacity, not effort, is the real issue.

Hannah, expressive and verbal, would speed up and get louder to feel heard, while David, her autistic partner, went stiff and silent from too much data, too fast. Together they built a shared language: Hannah paused after three sentences, and David learned to say, “I need a moment, and I’m still here.” The Home Play asks whether you’re talking for clarity or to calm your fear, and whether your silence is overwhelm.

One Emotional Takeaway: You’re not failing at communication. You’re two nervous systems missing each other’s signals, and you can learn each other’s rhythm.

Weekly Companion Blog Post: You're Talking & He's Silent: Neurodiverse Communication Patterns → loveontheautismspectrum.com/neurodiverse-communication-2/

#NeurodiverseCommunication #Shutdown #NervousSystemMismatch #AutisticPartner #NeurodiverseCouples #LoveOnTheAutismSpectrum

Start here — the free guide that gently names the pattern: ✨ You're Not Too Much. You're Just Alone in the Repair. → link.blazelazarony.com/youre-not-too-much

Ready to talk? Book a FREE 20-minute "Clarity & Connection" Zoom session: 📅 link.blazelazarony.com/Book-C-and-C-Zoom

Explore more tools, relationship guidance, and weekly blog posts at: 🌐 loveontheautismspectrum.com

Catch up on more episodes: 🎧 loveontheautismspectrum.com/podcast

Read deeper reflections and behind-the-scenes writing on Substack: ✉️ blazelazarony.substack.com

For behind-the-scenes reflections and bonus content, follow along on Instagram: 📸 @BlazeLazarony

The book — daily reflections for coming home to who you really are: 📚 Unmasked Self-Acceptance → amazon.com/dp/B0GLGX2HFK

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Listening does not create a therapeutic relationship or provide individualized advice.

Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT #151788, is licensed in California. All examples are fictional and used for illustration only.

If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 or contact local emergency services.