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Trust Issues: Why Is It So Hard for Some People to Trust?

…eople’s confidence and faith in a mate’s trustworthiness. How the critical inner voice fosters trust issues in a relationship. Mistrust, doubts and suspicions are strongly influenced by the critical inner voice. This destructive thought process is part of the defense system we built as children; it consists of an internal dialogue that is antagonistic to our best interests and cynical toward other people. The critical inner voice is the culprit th…

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Understanding Your Critical Inner Voice: A Video Presentation with Dr. Lisa Firestone

…ture of the world. Learn where this inner critic comes from as well as how to identify and overcome your Critical Inner Voice in the following video presentation. Watch Lisa Firestone, Ph.D. Explain the Concept of the Critical Inner Voice   Read more about the Critical Inner Voice…

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Leaving Your Childhood Behind to Become a Better Parent

…elf-hating or self-denying? Are we limited by an inner critic or “critical inner voice” that we’ve internalized? What are the ways we hurt ourselves in our goals or interpersonal relationships? As we get to know our true selves, we can differentiate from undesirable qualities from our past. We can make conscious choices as parents that help us to offer our children the emotional stability and support they need to be strong and resilient. In this p…

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Dr. Lisa Firestone Phd, Lisa Firestone, Psychalive, The Glendon Association

Dr. Lisa Firestone Self Articles

…oints beyond itself to a longstanding, painful trend. Click Here To Read More from Dr. Lisa Firestone on Intimacy and Parenting…

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Beating Addiction: The Sneaky Role of the Critical Inner Voice

…or behavior that destructively influences their life. In this Webinar, Dr. Lisa Firestone will explain how to fully face, fight and treat an addiction, one must come to know their critical inner voice. Individuals must learn what they are telling themselves both before they engage in addictive behavior and after. Increasing their awareness of this critical voice and how it operates is an essential first step to resisting an addiction. The presenta…

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Voice Therapy: Helping Clients Overcome Their Inner Critic – Online Workshop

…y relationships, self-esteem, and career success. This CE Webinar with Dr. Lisa Firestone will provide participants with an overview of Voice Therapy and how they can incorporate it into their practice. Dr. Firestone will explain Separation Theory, a theoretical approach that helps clients understand the developmental roots of their inner critic. In addition to gaining insight into where their inner critic comes from, participants will discover wa…

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Why Do We Trigger Each Other in Close Relationships?

…nsider that can help us understand and overcome our triggers: Our Critical Inner Voice When we feel triggered by our partner, several things may be going on. For starters, we usually aren’t just dealing with what the other person is saying or doing, but whatever we are telling ourselves about what they are saying or doing. We all have a “critical inner voice” that coaches us about ourselves and others. This inner critic is formed out of negative e…

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Fantasy Bond 101

…d with simple drawings. A while ago, I did a whiteboard about the critical inner voice, which was also challenging to describe. What should the critical inner voice look like? What are the attacks that most people could relate to? But it was a fun challenge. Now I’m wrestling with a concept that is even trickier to convey. So, the purpose of this blog is twofold: to organize my thoughts as I explain the fantasy bond to you in a clear and simple wa…

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Dr. Christine Courtois on the Critical Inner Voice and Psych-Ache: VIDEO

…ment figure or a non-significant person. And I think that when you look at parenting and help parents to be parents and to understand these things, you know, they need to know and appreciate the impact that they can have on a child and the impact that words have. Sometimes even more than behavior. I had a patient just this week who has been extremely suicidal and self injurious who, as we have been talking about her history, she’s had a really har…

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Are You Tricking Yourself Out of Love?

…about our (my father, Dr. Robert Firestone, and my) work on the “critical inner voice,” a self-destructive thought process we all possess. The host started the show by talking about all the media attention on terrorism and the fear we, as a nation, were feeling following the attacks of 9/11. She ended her introduction by saying, “But what if the worst enemy we face is the one residing inside ourselves, the critical inner voice?” I found her state…

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