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Ways to Improve Your Relationship While Sheltering at Home

…fferently than how you’d like. Be careful, because this critical and picky voice in your head is actually an enemy to your relationship. Chances are, you are both working extra hard and are under a lot of stress, and now, in particular, is not the time to engage in a tit-for-tat mentality. Of course, your partner isn’t perfect, and you are bound to notice real shortcomings in them. However, searching for evidence of their flaws and cataloguing eac…

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Working with High-Conflict Couples

…nxiety, yet interferes with real relationships. 3. Apply the techniques of Voice Therapy to help partners identify and challenge negative thoughts toward themselves and their partner Order Now Ordering Information Once payment is received, you will be emailed a full video recording of this webinar along with all presentation materials. Optional CEs (3) may be purchased through R. Cassidy Seminars. You can earn your CEs by watching the webinar and…

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How to Improve Your Relationships

…n their ability to develop and sustain attachments. She shows how negative inner thoughts toward oneself and others interfere with intimacy in relationships and how couples can learn to challenge such negative thoughts in order to achieve greater closeness in all their relationships. Learn practical techniques to improve your relationships. Order Now Ordering Information: Once payment is received, you will be emailed a full video recording of this…

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Live Your Life to the Fullest

…n’s self-limiting and self-destructive behavior? How can they overcome the inner critic that holds them back and keeps them from achieving their goals? This 90-minute presentation will explain an innovative, therapeutic model for differentiation, a four-step process that allows people to separate from the negative attitudes and harmful adaptations from their early life. Dr. Firestone will illustrate strategies people can implement that will help t…

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The Origin of Polarization, Prejudice, and Warfare

…tecting the fantasy bond against “outsiders,” negative thought processes — critical internal voices — foster distrust and hostility toward others. Stereotypes, prejudicial attitudes, and racial biases are extensions of these fundamentally hostile and distorted views. They provide a pseudo-rational basis for aggressive acts against those people who are perceived as different. Feelings of vanity and specialness are also part of the defense system th…

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Staying in Love While Staying Yourself

…head on. Instead, we may start to notice ourselves becoming a little more critical toward our partner or insecure in our relationship. We may feel compelled to pull on them, or we may feel pulled on by them. Whether we’re pushing or pulling, we’re creating a distance that, while probably unpleasant, is actually more familiar to us based on our personal history. We may not realize it, but we’re acting on a fear that tells us we’ll be safer if we d…

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The Fear of Intimacy

…ntasy bond,” a once-useful but now destructive form of self-parenting that jeopardizes meaningful attachments. Written in clear, jargon-free language, Fear of Intimacy helps couples identify and overcome the messages of the “critical inner voice,” an internalized point of view that negatively distorts our perception of ourselves and loved ones. The result is a ray of hope for a relationship based not on form, fantasy or security but on real comrad…

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Personal Story of a Life Touched by Suicide

…I’ll be doing that today as well! I cry when a singer gets selected on The Voice, so I imagine I’ll be crying today! I’d like to start today with a quote from Dr. Maya Angelou which has great meaning to me. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”. So today I share my story. I am here to honor my loved ones whom I have lost to suicide. I will not back away from the undeniable pain of my experience because I know so many…

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6 Reasons Most People Are Afraid of Love

…rson’s core defenses can sabotage romantic closeness Apply techniques from Voice Therapy to help challenge clients’ negative thoughts toward themselves and their partners Describe how the Fantasy Bond can interfere with couple relationships Order Now Ordering Information Once payment is received, you will be emailed a full video recording of this webinar along with all presentation materials. Optional CEs (3) may be purchased through R. Cassidy Se…

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Do You Have an Honest Relationship?

…onality that don’t reflect who we really are and what we really want. If a voice in our head is telling us not to take a chance or be vulnerable, it’s important to question where those thoughts come from, then make our actions match what we really desire. When we are true to ourselves in this way, we are better able to be honest with the people around us. We are less likely to just tell people what they want to hear or try to cover up things about…

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