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Student Stress, Pressure and Self-Attacks: Interview with Dr. Daniel Zamir

…ongst students, as well as ways that students can challenge their Critical Inner Voice.   Debunking the Thought Process, “My grades define where I stand as a human being.” The following transcript contains part of an exclusive interview with the Editor of PsychAlive and Dr. Daniel Zamir. Dr. Daniel Zamir: We have a group at UCLA called Finding Focus that’s about, kind of, ways to study smart. So it’s about time management and overcoming procrastin…

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Overcoming Your Inner Critic: A Video Interview with Robert Firestone, Ph.D.

…Dr. Robert Firestone explains the five steps of Voice Therapy, a process by which people can identify and overcome their “Critical Inner Voice.”…

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Suicide Prevention with Dr. Lisa Firestone on THELIP.tv

…t for most people, and especially between parents and kids. We invited Dr. Lisa Firestone into TIP to address the issue for parents who may not know how to broach it. From being bullied at school, to learning self-loathing at home, there are many things that can foster suicidal thoughts. We talk about the emotional conditions and physical circumstances that surround suicide, and how to create the right conditions to combat them. It’s an important…

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Overcoming Insecurity

…ialogue that accompanies our feelings of insecurity known as the “critical inner voice.” By understanding where this critical inner voice comes from and how it feeds our feelings of insecurity, we can come to understand the forces that drive us to put ourselves down. In this presentation, Dr. Firestone will explain therapeutic steps to challenge and overcome the destructive inner critic that limits our lives. She will illustrate the value of pract…

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The Key to Better Parenting

…er parents to their children? Dr. Firestone will illustrate an approach to parenting that professionals can use to help their clients understand their own emotions and sensitively handle the emotions of their children throughout various developmental stages. This Webinar will provide information about the intergenerational transmission of attachment, attunement, emotional regulation, emotional hunger versus love, and rupture and repair. In additio…

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Understanding and Overcoming Relationship Anxiety

…ult relationships. She will further explain the influence of the “critical inner voice,” a negative thought process we internalize early in life based on hurtful attitudes and experiences. This critical inner voice goes on to perpetuate our anxiety by filling our heads with critical, shaming thoughts about ourselves, and even our romantic partner or potential partners. Dr. Firestone will introduce methods that can help individuals overcome their r…

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What Does the Popularity of 50 Shades of Grey Say About Our Sexuality?

…oughts when they were being sexual. When asked to describe these “critical inner voices” in the second-person, a key step in “voice therapy,” she shouted, “What does he want from you? Don’t let him get too close. He’s just using you. Don’t trust anyone.” These thoughts were confusing to her, because even as she was saying them out loud, they didn’t sound like her point of view. Critical thoughts that arise during sex, whether directed toward ourse…

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Parenting Advice

Dr. Pat Love on Parenting

Dr. Pat Love on what it is to parent, and the mistaken conceptions of parenting that are endemic to our culture: There’s a lot of talk today about parents who hover, these helicopter parents. And there’s just one line that I like to say and that is: When you do something for someone else, let’s say your child, that he can do for himself, you teach him that he’s inept and you teach him to be irresponsible. And also, it builds that sense of entitle…

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The Real Reason You’re Not Married

…of our many faults as well as those of our partner. Be wary of a critical inner voice telling us to be upset, suspicious and mistrusting. That voice may be saying things like, “Where is he tonight? I can’t believe he didn’t call you. He’s so insensitive.” Or, “All that she ever does is nag at me. Why won’t she just leave me alone?” These thoughts are rarely entirely accurate representations of our partners. Still, the more we react to them, the m…

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Overcoming Two of Parenting’s Greatest Challenges

…thy children. They will be featured in an upcoming e-Course “Compassionate Parenting,” presented through PsychAlive. The six-week online multi-media course is different from most parenting classes in that it addresses the parent as a person. It asks parents to have a passion for their own lives that will naturally extend to their children, to lead by example and to be courageous in their willingness to know themselves. There is one thing that will…

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