…for each other in our relationship? Reprinted with permission: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. Copyright © 2018 [Tamsen Firestone] Daring to Love Move Beyond Fear of Intimacy, Embrace Vulnerability, and Create Lasting Connection Learn More or Order…
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…nefits of being vulnerable to love. Reprinted with permission: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. Copyright © 2018 [Tamsen Firestone] Daring to Love Move Beyond Fear of Intimacy, Embrace Vulnerability, and Create Lasting Connection Learn More or Order…
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…alizing that change takes time, will allow you to have a kind attitude toward yourself as you resolve to make changes in your life. Daring to Love Move Beyond Fear of Intimacy, Embrace Vulnerability, and Create Lasting Connection Learn More or Order…
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…become completely disoriented. The latest headlines can spark feelings of fear, anger, and shock accompanied by an indefinite idea of what to do with these feelings. Left unattended, these stirred emotions can easily mold into anxiety, depression, irritability, and panic. They can spill into our everyday expression: tense interactions, inexplicable indecisiveness, unusual fatigue, or a fight-or-flight reaction to an innocuous baking mishap. With…
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…new behavior that involves taking emotional risks and gradually overcoming fears related to pursuing their wants and priorities. During this step in Voice Therapy, clients formulate the values that give their lives special meaning. Then, with the therapist’s help, they plan methods and means of pursuing these goals. And lastly, as they cope with the necessary risks inherent in self-actualization, they attain a new level of vulnerability and learn…
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…e not sufficiently repaired, the baby experiences a mixture of emotions of fear, shame, rage, sadness, and/or apathy. Research has shown that shame is a primitive emotion strongly associated with parental rejection during the earliest phases of development wherein the infant assimilates a core feeling of being dirty, bad or unlovable Basically, children internalize any hostile or negative attitudes that are directed toward them in the form of vagu…
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…been altered by the trauma,” said Perry. “Understanding the persistence of fear-related emotional, behavioral, cognitive and physiological patterns can lead to focused therapeutic experiences that modify those parts of the brain impacted by trauma.” In some cases, beating depression will involve a journey toward healing from early trauma. Making sense of our experiences and feeling the full pain of them can help us to move on and feel better in ou…
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…ee time” allotted to us from the Coronavirus. The lack of personal agency, fear for personal health and that our friends, family, and neighbors, has created a new, ominous, feeling to this “free time;” it contradicts its usual connotation of relaxation. Anxiety and depression, among many other mental disorders, are legitimate hurdles in everyday life, and the remarkable state of the current world has only made coping with our forced “free-time” ex…
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…cted. These current circumstances (with the psychological perfect storm of fear, isolation and uncertainty) can diminish optimism and make it more challenging to pursue a meaningful life. With these thoughts in mind, I began to reread 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 he…
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…e. It is not ‘craziness,’ but the person’s best attempt to soothe enormous fear in a world where they still feel unsafe. It’s really about finding the meaning of the client’s choice, whether that choice is food restriction, binging, purging, overeating, or other self-harming. It’s felt to the personal like a survival skill, and the person is doing the best they can. Seeing the reason why a person is struggling with harmful behavior is SO important…
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