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How Insecure Attachment Creates Fertile Ground for Addictions

…On-Demand Webinars     In this Webinar: This online workshop with Dr. Lisa Firestone will provide tools to help people heal insecure attachment, resolve trauma, integrate their… Learn More Viewing clinical issues through the lens of attachment theory has helped me enormously in my work with clients. Problems and dysfunction make perfect sense when viewed through this lens. Take my client Becky, for instance. (I’ve changed her name for confidential…

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What Really Goes On in the Mind of a Narcissist?

…discussed the critical inner voice, a concept developed by my father, Dr. Robert Firestone, as a destructive thought process formed from hurtful experiences that shaped our sense of self, others, and the world around us. This cruel internal coach controls the negative conversation and commentary that goes on inside our own mind. While for many of us, our critical inner voice is often self-destructive, putting us down, attacking, insulting, and un…

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How to Fight the Loneliness Epidemic

How to Fight the Loneliness Epidemic

…is a cognitive/ affective/ behavioral approach developed by my father Dr. Robert Firestone to help people identify and challenge their critical inner voice. When I’ve used this method with clients who are struggling with feelings of loneliness and isolation, here are some of the “voices” they’ve expressed having toward themselves: “No one really cares about you.” “You’re such a burden. Who wants to be around you?” “Don’t put yourself out there. Y…

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The Key to a Long and Happy Life

…py lives than social class, IQ, or even genes. The study’s lead researcher Robert Waldinger concluded that “it wasn’t their middle-age cholesterol levels that predicted how [the study’s subjects] were going to grow old. It was how satisfied they were in their relationships. The people who were the most satisfied in their relationships at age 50 were the healthiest at age 80.” These relationships extend beyond our significant other and immediate fa…

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What Does It Mean to Be Feminine or Masculine?

…human beings, regardless of our gender. In his book, Beyond Death Anxiety, Robert Firestone writes that these are “the ability to love and to feel compassion for self and others, the capacity for abstract reasoning and creativity, the ability to experience deep emotion, the desire for social affiliation, the ability to set goals and develop strategies to accomplish them, an awareness of existential concerns, the potential to experience the sacredn…

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5 Ways Working on Ourselves Can Benefit Our Kids

…children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum A lot of people marvel at how parenting has changed over the years. Some mock how it’s become so much more hands-on and child-centered. “We grew up like wild dogs in the ‘60s,” joked Jerry Seinfeld in a recent stand-up routine. “No helmets, no seat belts, no restraints. Anything came to a stop, we just flew through the air. I was either eating 100% sugar, or…

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Getting the Love You Want

…onally familiar? In the research and clinical work my father, psychologist Robert Firestone, and I have done, we have found that people tend to recreate their past in the present. We often accomplish this by selecting, distorting, or provoking our partners to fit with old dynamics and reaffirm negative feelings we’ve long had about ourselves. Selection – Our initial attractions can be tricky, because sometimes the very thing that compels us toward…

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Fear of Intimacy

By Robert W. Firestone, Ph.D. Joyce Catlett, M.A. In Fear of Intimacy, the authors bring almost 40 years of clinical experience to bear in challenging the usual ways of thinking about couples and families. They argue that relationships fail not for the commonly cited reasons, but because psychological defenses formed in childhood act as a barrier to closeness in adulthood. A wide range of cross-generational case studies and powerful personal acco…

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Mental Health Apps: A Therapist in Your Pocket!

…econd section includes two video interviews with mental health experts Dr. Robert Woliver and Dr. Michael Britt, both of whom have created highly successful apps. The third section includes a case study with information on laypeople’s experience using mental health apps. The final section includes a detailed resource list with app examples for a variety of issues, and articles for further reading. *May fulfill pre-licensing and/or license renewal…

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5 Things to Do When Your Inner Critic Takes Over

…s the book Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice, co-authored by my father Dr. Robert Firestone, I’ve outlined what I believe to be an empowering approach to combat this destructive voice on a deeper psychological level. However, we can take on this inner critic on a daily basis by persistently peeling away its negative overlays from our real point of view. In doing so, we can become more resilient in our fight to act in ways that reflect both our rea…

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