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Sleepovers: Are They Appropriate for Every Child?

…eciding what’s right for the child, including the possibility of the child experiencing anxiety, bullying, making sure medications are taken, night terrors, sleep deprivation, and, of course, the dreaded bedwetting. Klass stresses the importance of parents considering what is appropriate for their child, taking into consideration the aforementioned issues — “This night away from home, this now iconic childhood activity — a step toward mock indepen…

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What You Can Do to Save a Life from Suicide

…r. Firestone will shed light on what goes on in the mind of someone who is experiencing self-destructive thoughts and will explain steps people can take to stand up to this “critical inner voice” that drives the suicidal state. While it can feel scary to talk about suicide, we must not hesitate to be the one to reach out when someone is in crisis. The suicidal state is almost always transient and temporary. If we can connect with someone when they…

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How Childhood Defenses Hurt Us As Adults

…acteristics served as “defenses” in our youth. They shielded us from fully experiencing the pain and even terror of recognizing the faults of those responsible for our well-being. Growing up, it was our parents’ duty to protect us. Our survival depended on them. This dependence is part of what made our parent’s actions so significant to our development and what gave them such strong influence over us. To an adult, having another adult erupt in ang…

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The Tao: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

…l, and experience the passing of time. Whatever emotion or thought you are experiencing, whether positive or negative, over time, has to pass. The moment you read these words has just passed. Try to hold onto it… you can’t. The moment you read THESE words has passed again. And so on and so forth. This is what is meant by “This too shall pass.” Every moment is moving toward the next moment. Being present in THIS moment as it occurs leads to mindful…

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Becoming Your Real Self: Shedding the Baggage of Your Past

…hat each parent actually thought about you. Often, as adults, we are still experiencing our lives through the filter of these negative points of view. Starting to identify and challenge these critical inner voices in the first step in the process of differentiating and seeing yourself and your life through your own eyes and not through a filter based on early programming. Challenging these views involves developing perspective and answering back t…

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The Price of Being Strong: Risks to the Mental Health of Athletes

…es or struggle in their search for a new career. Many athletes are used to experiencing life as part of a team. On their own, they may feel disconnected. After years of build up, praise, and applause, athletes face an unfamiliar and unknown future. NFL player Brandon Marshall recently opened up publicly about his own psychological struggles and the importance of removing stigmas about mental illness in sports. He wrote in his May 5 op-ed in the Ch…

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Common Psychological Issues University Students Seek to Address: Interview with Dr. Daniel Zamir

…g, their, you know, cultural and ethnic identity context — who they are in relationships, and how they make friends and make meaning in relationships — because that, especially, is so individual. And I have a lot of people who come in and just being a therapist, I think provides this tremendous power because people come in and they have this idea that, “You’re someone who I’m really supposed to tell everything to.” And sometimes, things they’ve ne…

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6 Ways To Calm Your Nervous System

…omplex trauma survivors because they needed those responses so often, when experiencing trauma. If a person experienced prolonged trauma or childhood trauma, those activated nervous system responses became part of their everyday lives. To protect them, their bodies started to live in hyperarousal (to notice danger early), or hypo-arousal (to ignore or numb out from what was happening). These nervous system responses stay— even when the person beco…

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After My Suicide Attempt, I Made This Plan to Stay Alive and Well

…my reality, they acknowledge that it is real to me, but that they are not experiencing the same things. Over time, with the coping and grounding exercises, I get past the distorted reality and eventually come back to our true reality. 10. The Plan. I created my very own mental and brain health emergency plan. The emergency plan has all of my doctors’ and clinicians’ names, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses. It also includes descr…

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What Goes On in the Mind of Your Therapist?

…someone it’s impossible not to occasionally be curious about what they are experiencing. My father Robert Firestone recently wrote a book, which offers a unique glimpse into the mind of the therapist, Overcoming the Destructive Inner Voice. In it, he tells true stories of working with patients in therapy and their process of transformation. In his introduction, he wrote, “Psychotherapy represents a powerful personal interaction and a unique human…

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