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Teen Suicide Prevention: Teachers and Educators

…Prevention Advice The Glendon Association “Save a Life” Brochure Dr. Lisa Firestone’s “The Warning Signs of Suicide” &“Suicide: How You Can Help Someone at Risk” TeenSuicide.us – “Teen Suicide Warning Signs” &”Teenage Suicide Prevention” HealthyPlace.com “Suicide and Teenagers” &”Teen Depression: What Parents Need to Know” “Teens Under Pressure” Dr.Phil recently aired a show on teen suicide prevention in which PsychAlive’s Dr. Lisa Firestone disc…

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In a Relationship with a Narcissist? What You Need to Know About Narcissistic Relationships

…cissistic relationship, we’ve interviewed psychologist and author Dr. Lisa Firestone. How Can You Tell if You Are in a Narcissistic Relationship? When thinking about narcissism, I’m often reminded of the joke when someone goes on and on about themselves, then interrupts with, “But enough about me, how do you feel about me?” If your partner is all about themselves, always needing attention and affirmation, he or she may be a narcissist. If someone…

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Overcoming Insecurity

…ssue both men and women will battle from early in their lives. In Dr. Lisa Firestone’s own research, she found that the most common self-critical thought people have toward themselves is that they are different from everyone else – not in a positive sense, but in some negative, alienating way. Why is low self-esteem so prevalent? Why are we so insecure? Insecurity affects every one of us. It seeps in and impacts different areas of our lives from o…

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Fear of Abandonment

…e more distance. Catching on to these patterns, which Drs. Robert and Lisa Firestone call “selection, distortion, and provocation” can help people who have a fear of abandonment make better choices that can help them create more security. How can we overcome fear of abandonment and change our attachment patterns? Fortunately, a person’s style of attachment is not fixed. We can develop earned secure attachment as adults in several ways. As Dr. Lisa…

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Leaving Your Childhood Behind to Become a Better Parent

…of “Voice Therapy,” developed by my father, psychologist and author Robert Firestone, involves putting your critical thoughts in the second-person (as “you” statements.) My friend tried this exercise herself with journaling. First, she wrote down her most shameful feelings in relation to herself as a parent. Rather than writing, “I am a terrible mother,” she wrote, “You are a terrible mother.” She proceeded with, “Your son will grow up hating you….

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

…to shield the child from that which is unpredictable.” According to Robert Firestone, such parents are also “characteristically warm, affectionate, and sensitive in feeding and caring for their children and offer them control, direction, and guidance as well.” Childhood experiences that contribute to trust issues There are numerous aversive childhood experiences that contribute to children’s mistrust and lack of confidence. For example, parents’ i…

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How to Stop Worrying

…outdoors naturally teaches us how to stop worrying. According to Dr. Lisa Firestone in her blog “Nature as Medicine,” “One of the reasons, nature is so beneficial is that it allows us to feel more present in our own bodies. We tend to experience nature with our senses, drinking in sights, sounds and smells, feeling the earth on our feet and the breeze on our face.” This presence of mind can offer us respite from worrying. “As our mind unclutters,…

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Stay in Love by Staying Out of Fantasy

…The fantasy bond is a concept developed by my father, psychologist Robert Firestone, that describes an illusion of connection a couple forms that replaces real acts of love, affection, and relating. A fantasy bond exists when the form of a relationship becomes more important than the substance – when a couple starts to forego their individually—losing the “me” to become a “we.” As Robert Firestone explains it, “Perhaps the most significant sign t…

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Feeling Like a Failure

…s in ways that are extremely self-punishing and negative,” said Dr. Robert Firestone, author of Overcoming the Destructive Inner Voice. He describes an “anti-self” or “critical inner voice” we all experience that acts like an internal judge. This voice is almost constantly assessing us, evaluating what we accomplish and how we’re perceived. This cruel inner critic not only tells us that we’re failing when we’re not, but it contributes to self-limi…

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Overcoming the Fear of Intimacy

…eople’s closest and most meaningful connections. In this Webinar, Dr. Lisa Firestone will explain both what causes this fear as well as how individuals can push past this fear and expand their capacity for love. By providing participants with a theoretical model that integrates psychodynamic, existential and family systems frameworks, Dr. Firestone will assist individuals and clinicians working with clients to develop and maintain true intimacy in…

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