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Self-Sabotaging: Why We Get in Our Own Way

…Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation, co-authored by Dr. Robert Firestone, Dr. Lisa Firestone and Joyce Catlett, we describe the four steps involved in differentiation. Step one involves separating from the destructive attitudes (critical inner voices) we internalized based on painful early life experiences. The second step requires us to separate from the negative traits in our parents or influential caretakers that we’ve taken on as o…

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How Your Attachment Style Impacts Your Relationship

…On-Demand Webinars     In this Webinar: This online workshop with Dr. Lisa Firestone will provide tools to help people heal insecure attachment, resolve trauma, integrate their… Learn More One essential way to do this is by making sense of your story. According to Dr. Dan Siegel, attachment research demonstrates that “the best predictor of a child’s security of attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his parents…

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Stop Self-Sabotage by Conquering Your Inner Critic

…our new book, The Self Under Siege. In the book, my co-authors, Dr. Robert Firestone and Joyce Catlett, and I outline a four-step process for differentiating yourself from negative influences from your past and from society at large, in order to become the person you have the potential to be, “your real self.” To be able to recognize and separate from destructive voices, you must first recognize that many thoughts you regard as your own point of v…

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Fantasy Bond 101

…parent or caretaker. In his new book, Challenging the Fantasy Bond, Robert Firestone describes the baby’s situation, “The infant, lacking any sense of time, knows only the intensity of the moment and suffers intolerable fear and emotional pain when faced with frustration and separation anxiety.” To allay those feelings, a baby develops an illusion of connection or merged identity with their parent. This imagination provides the baby with partial g…

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Want to get help now?

…on Association – Suicide and Self Destructive Behavior American Association of Suicidology Read: PsychAlive’s Suicide Prevention Advice Page “Something to Lose” Dr. Lisa Firestone’s blog, Suicide: The Warning Signs Dr. Lisa Firestone’s blog, Suicide: How Can You Help Someone at Risk…

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Quiz: How Stressed Are you?

…blog “Silence the Inner Voice That’s Stressing You Out,” psychologist Lisa Firestone states, “Many of us feel concern when we have more things we need to do or want to do than we believe we can get done. Very often, however, we are placing too much pressure on ourselves and setting our expectations too high. In effect we are setting ourselves up, and literally scheduling ourselves out, to get stressed.” The “critical inner voice” is an internal co…

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Suicide: What Every Mental Health Professional Should Know – CE Webinar Resources

Here you will find resources from Dr. Lisa Firestone’s September 17, 2013 Webinar ” Suicide: What Every Mental Health Professional Should Know.” The slides from the presentation, video clips, books, films and additional mentioned resources are all available here. Missed the Webinar? Order a video recording. See slides from Suicide: What Every Mental Health Professional Should Know To see a full list of upcoming Webinars with Dr. Lisa Firestone, p…

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Finding Your Cure for Depression

…herapy, an approach developed by my father, psychologist and author Robert Firestone. Voice Therapy introduces people to the concept of the “critical inner voice,” a destructive pattern of thoughts that fuels self-hatred. The critical inner voice is like a sadistic coach who comments on our lives and torments us. It undermines our goals and kicks us when we’re down. People with depression often strongly experience this “voice,” driving feelings of…

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A Challenge to Mothers Everywhere

…ives your children the permission to feel safe, secure and joyful, knowing someone so significant to their lives feels the same. Read more from Dr. Lisa Firestone at PsychAlive.org Join Dr. Lisa Firestone for an eCourse on Parenting…

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The Simplest & Most Effective Technique I’ve Found for Reducing Stress

…e high, and my anxiety suddenly went through the roof. My sister, Dr. Lisa Firestone, taught me the 4-7-8 breathing technique and suggested that I practice it whenever I started to get anxious. The first day, I must have done the breathing exercise a dozen times, feeling a little calmer each time. The next day, I did it four or five times. By the third day, I was feeling so much better, I only needed to use the exercise once. Whenever I get anxiou…

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