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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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How to Talk With Your Adolescent About Their Drug or Alcohol Use

…t stands for Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training. Doctors Robert J. Meyers and Jane Ellen Smith developed CRAFT during the 1980s and ’90s. It has just begun to get wider use since 2009. CRAFT is a powerful approach because it builds on the caring between family members as part of the solution to get more people into treatment. It helps those struggling with drugs or alcohol to accept their needs for healing and become willing to s…

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Aging and Positive Psychology: Biological, Cognitive, Personality, Health, and Clinical Issues

…D., consider challenging life transitions for Baby Boomers. Sexologist Dr. Robert Birch shares his 30+ years of clinical experience as a sex therapist and discusses how to foster a fulfilling sex life for Boomers and seniors. John Erickson is a visionary who revolutionized retirement living, founded Retirement Living Television network (the only cable TV network devoted to seniors), and has developed remarkably effective medical services for senio…

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creating a life of meaning

Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: Part I

…ad Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion written by my husband, Robert Firestone. In the first chapter, he discusses goals and qualities for creating a meaningful life. I found these suggestions to be helpful and heartening, and thought it would be valuable to share them on my blog, especially now when life is throwing us a curve ball. I will discuss the first 4 qualities in this blog, and the last 4 in a blog later this month. There is no rig…

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Aging and Positive Psychology: Biological, Cognitive, Personality, Health, and Clinical Issues

…D., consider challenging life transitions for Baby Boomers. Sexologist Dr. Robert Birch shares his 30+ years of clinical experience as a sex therapist and discusses how to foster a fulfilling sex life for Boomers and seniors. John Erickson is a visionary who revolutionized retirement living, founded Retirement Living Television network (the only cable TV network devoted to seniors), and has developed remarkably effective medical services for senio…

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Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: Part 2

…in Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion written by my husband, Robert Firestone. In his words, “If the good life is fundamentally one in which we fully develop our human potentialities, describing these potentialities is central to our understanding of how to proceed.” This blog explains the last four of the eight human qualities that Robert presented in his book: the desire for social affiliation the ability to set goals and develop strategi…

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Real Love or a Fantasy Bond: The Appeal of the Twilight Saga

…e challenges that arise with real love is form what my father psychologist Robert Firestone termed a “Fantasy Bond.” The fantasy bond is a connection built out of fears from danger and even from death that we often experience at an unconscious level. This bond substitutes real feelings of love, respect, and spontaneity with an illusion of connection, a focus on form over substance, and a false sense of security and completion by another person. Wh…

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How To Bully Proof Your Children by Building Their Resilience

…actions. Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice, a book I co-authored with Dr. Robert Firestone and Joyce Catlett, provides exercises for recognizing and overcoming this internal bully. Be Critical, Coddling, or Ignore Issues: We should always support our kids in new challenges. We can help by putting them in somewhat novel situations in which they’re slightly uncomfortable, but we’re there to back them up. We shouldn’t over-push them, leading them to…

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Eight Ways to Actively Fight Depression

…the voice of a well-hidden enemy within, what my father, psychologist Dr. Robert Firestone refers to as the critical inner voice. Internalized early in life, this inner voice functions like an over-disciplinary parent holding us back and keeping us in our place. On October 11, I am presenting a CE Webinar to professionals on an Innovative Approach to Treating Depression. The presentation will illustrate how this destructive thought process fuels…

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Where the Rubber Meets the Road

…attended a psychology conference in New York City and stumbled across Dr. Robert Firestone’s book, The Fantasy Bond. In spite of the fact I had stacks of assigned reading, this was the book I couldn’t put down. It enlightened me in ways none of my professors could, answering theoretical questions roaming around in my freshly primed mind. Most importantly, it made sense, not just theoretically, but personally. And this really is the crux of the ma…

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