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The Critical Inner Voice Defined

…er Voice with your father, Dr. Robert W. Firestone, and Joyce Catlett? Dr. Lisa Firestone: After years of therapy practice, we could see how much our patientsgained from a deeper understanding of their critical inner voice, and we wanted to make it available to the general public. The goal is to help individuals gain an awareness of the critical inner voice that causes us to fall short of our capabilities and prevents us from living the life we wa…

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Finding Love: Empowering Tools to Help You Find the Relationship You Want

Firestone, psychologist and author of Fear of Intimacy (also father to Dr. Lisa Firestone), has presented a case for why most people are, to varying degrees, afraid of closeness. “Most people say that they want love and positive acknowledgment, but relatively few people can tolerate real love and respect from another person, because it threatens their defenses’” said Dr. Firestone. “They tend to retreat, pass over it and sometimes react with actua…

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How You Can Help Someone At Risk for Suicide by Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.

…our Critical Inner Voice(New Harbinger, 2002), and Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Wisdom of Psychotherapy (APA Books, 2003). VIDEO: Watch Dr. Lisa Firestone discuss topics of self, intimacy and parenting at PsychAlive’s Video Center…

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Recent Videos

…lness in Challenging Times In our second Experts at Home conversation, Dr. Lisa Firestone talks with mindfu… Experts at home: Dr. Pat Love on Relationships During the Time of Covid-19 In our first Experts at Home conversation, Dr. Lisa Firestone interviews relatio… Drs. Nicole Cammack & Danielle Busby on How and When to Talk to Kids About Racism Drs. Danielle Busby and Nicole Cammack from www.blackmentalwellness.com answer a… Preview of New…

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Dr. Lisa Firestone Self Articles

…lationships and Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. Visit her site at www.drlisa*]}*firestone.com.   Silence the Inner Voice That’s Stressing You Out Millions of Americans struggle with unhealthy levels of stress. Stress isn’t just destructive to our mental health but to our physical health as well. It weakens our immune systems and contributes to heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes, and other illnesses.   The Unselfish Gift of Going on a Retre

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Dr. Lisa Firestone Parenting Articles

…sychAlive profile page for her latest articles. Visit her website at www.drlisa*]}*firestone.com. How Childhood Defenses Hurt Us as Adults When we internalize destructive attitudes during hurtful or traumatic experiences in our past, we strengthen our “anti-self.” As we grow up, our anti-self resides within us and encourages us to take actions that replicate our past but that are damaging to us in the present.   How to Bully-Proof Your Children by Bui

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Falling Out of Love

…makes them feel angry and withholding.” In their research, Drs. Robert and Lisa Firestone, have listed common psychological reasons that love scares us without us being fully aware: Love arouses anxiety and makes us feel vulnerable. It brings up sadness and painful feelings from the past (i.e. a love we didn’t feel as children). Love often provokes a painful identity crisis, as we’re seen in a new, more positive light. It disconnects people from a…

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Videos

…laylists Self-Development Parenting Relationships Dr. Robert Firestone Dr. Lisa Firestone Dr. Carol Gilligan Dr. James Gilligan Dr. James and Dr. Carol Gilligan Dr. James Garbarino Dr. Kirk Schneider Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn Dr. Dan Siegel Dr. Peter A. Levine Dr. Pat Love Dr. Sheldon Solomon Dr. Donald Meichenbaum Dr. Donna Rockwell Dr. Daniel Zamir Dr. Christine Courtois Dr. Allan Schore   « prev12345… 1415next » What Does it Mean to Dare to Love? Au…

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Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.

…lationships and Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. Visit her site at www.drlisa*]}*firestone.com. Articles on the Self As Iraq Ends, A New Battle with PTSD Begins With 40,000 men and women returning home from Iraq in the next few months, we must greet them with the tools to combat the emotional wounds of battle. Developing resilience can truly break the internal cycle that leaves so many individuals chronically stuck in a traumatized state. . The ‘Ant

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Creating Thriving Relationships: Free Webinar with Drs. Daniel Siegel and Lisa Firestone

…ance. We hope you join us! There are NO CEs available for this webinar. Learn about the eCourse “Love and Connection” with Drs. Lisa Firestone and Dan Siegel….

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