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Why Am I Still Single? Learn the Barriers That Ward Off Love

…ting into healthy and fulfilling relationships. It will highlight what Dr. Firestone has found to be the most significant, internal reasons people have trouble finding love. These include defenses, unhealthy attractions, fears of intimacy, pickiness, low self-esteem, fear of competition, isolation, routine and rule-making. Many people harbor psychological defenses that they believe will protect them but that actually ward off love. Dr. Firestone w…

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Become a Better Parent by Understanding Yourself

…their children. By bringing in the latest child development research, Dr. Firestone introduces parents to a more compassionate, self-reflective approach to parenting. She will emphasize how by making sense of their own experiences growing up, parents are actually doing the least selfish thing they can do for their kids. Parenting is not about perfection. We all want to be the best parent we can, but to the degree that we are blind to our own past…

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Beating Addiction: The Sneaky Role of the Critical Inner Voice

…of them that is self-critical, self-sabotaging and self-destructive). Dr. Firestone will explain the steps of Voice Therapy, a cognitive, affective and behavioral approach to challenging one’s core negative beliefs about themselves. She will help individuals and therapists working with clients learn ways to overcome the thought processes that drive addictive behavior. Dr. Firestone will further emphasize the importance of helping individuals stru…

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“Nobody Likes Me:” Understanding Loneliness and Self-shame

…s and social anxiety, a subject you can learn more about here. As Dr. Lisa Firestone put it in her article “A Way Out of Loneliness,” “It’s helpful to recognize that loneliness is very much a state of mind, and unfortunately, that mind is, in effect, lying to us.” Being alone isn’t necessarily the issue; it’s the filter of seeing ourselves as alone that must be challenged. People who feel lonely tend to view the world differently. There are even c…

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jealousy and jealous feelings

How to Deal with Jealousy

…hor of Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. As she and her father Dr. Robert Firestone define it, the “critical inner voice” is a form of negative self-talk. It perpetuates destructive thoughts and feelings, driving us to compare, evaluate and judge ourselves (and often others) with great scrutiny. This is one reason why learning how to deal with jealousy is so important. This voice can fuel our feelings of jealousy by filling our heads with critica…

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Fantasy Bond 101

…parent or caretaker. In his new book, Challenging the Fantasy Bond, Robert Firestone describes the baby’s situation, “The infant, lacking any sense of time, knows only the intensity of the moment and suffers intolerable fear and emotional pain when faced with frustration and separation anxiety.” To allay those feelings, a baby develops an illusion of connection or merged identity with their parent. This imagination provides the baby with partial g…

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Suicide: What Every Mental Health Professional Should Know – CE Webinar Resources

Here you will find resources from Dr. Lisa Firestone’s September 17, 2013 Webinar ” Suicide: What Every Mental Health Professional Should Know.” The slides from the presentation, video clips, books, films and additional mentioned resources are all available here. Missed the Webinar? Order a video recording. See slides from Suicide: What Every Mental Health Professional Should Know To see a full list of upcoming Webinars with Dr. Lisa Firestone, p…

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Finding Your Cure for Depression

…herapy, an approach developed by my father, psychologist and author Robert Firestone. Voice Therapy introduces people to the concept of the “critical inner voice,” a destructive pattern of thoughts that fuels self-hatred. The critical inner voice is like a sadistic coach who comments on our lives and torments us. It undermines our goals and kicks us when we’re down. People with depression often strongly experience this “voice,” driving feelings of…

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A Challenge to Mothers Everywhere

…ives your children the permission to feel safe, secure and joyful, knowing someone so significant to their lives feels the same. Read more from Dr. Lisa Firestone at PsychAlive.org Join Dr. Lisa Firestone for an eCourse on Parenting…

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Quiz: How Stressed Are you?

…blog “Silence the Inner Voice That’s Stressing You Out,” psychologist Lisa Firestone states, “Many of us feel concern when we have more things we need to do or want to do than we believe we can get done. Very often, however, we are placing too much pressure on ourselves and setting our expectations too high. In effect we are setting ourselves up, and literally scheduling ourselves out, to get stressed.” The “critical inner voice” is an internal co…

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