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Challenging the Fantasy Bond
Presenter: Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.
Date: Feb. 23, 2022
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PsychAlive encourages us to understand and challenge the deeper issues that prevent us from living a life that is as joyful, rewarding and meaningful as it can be.
What we think we want isn't necessarily what we pursue. How is self-sabotage affecting your life?
https://www.psychalive.org/are-you-sabotaging-yourself/
https://www.psychalive.org/are-you-sabotaging-yourself/
To a certain degree, many of us don’t actually want we say we want. Because of learned defenses from our past, we sabotage ourselves in ways of which we aren’t aware.
Are you guilty of magical thinking?
https://www.psychalive.org/unknowingly-guilty-of-magical-thinking/
https://www.psychalive.org/unknowingly-guilty-of-magical-thinking/
Our parents' influence is often preserved in everything from our self-perception to the patterns we repeat throughout our lives. As adults, we must learn how to differentiate the positive from the negative, to uncover the otherwise invisible forces that do not serve us and to preserve the ones that do.
https://www.psychalive.org/the-destructive-ways-we-self-parent-as-adults/
https://www.psychalive.org/the-destructive-ways-we-self-parent-as-adults/
How the parents we keep in our heads can limit or hurt us throughout our lives.
It’s easier than we think for our brain to get conditioned into an anxious or depressive loop. Here are five ways to get out of it.
https://www.psychalive.org/5-natural-ways-to-overcome-anxiety-and-depression/
https://www.psychalive.org/5-natural-ways-to-overcome-anxiety-and-depression/
Do you ever feel anxious or depressed – especially in these times? It’s easier than we think for our brain to get conditioned into an anxious or depressive loop. In this video I’m going to share with you what I’ve learned over the last 20 years as a psychologist, around what are natural ways...
How is our mental health affected by family visits?
https://www.psychalive.org/home-not-again-for-the-holidays/
https://www.psychalive.org/home-not-again-for-the-holidays/
Many people are fresh off gathering with family this holiday season. Getting together with our own unique variety of loved ones: those we adore as well as the quirky ones, the grumpy ones, even the ones we don’t really get along with can be bittersweet. Everyone acknowledges that these visits can ...