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

…ectively with their inner critic is central to all areas of life: personal development, healthy 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 addit…

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kindness

Kindness Wins!

…ical inner voice exists in everyone. This voice works against our personal development, opposing our best interests and diminishing our sense of self. It is not our real point of view, which reflects our natural wants, our aspirations, and our desire for affiliation with others as well as our drive to be sexual, reproduce, and be creative. Rather, this voice represents a point of view that is alien to our self and promotes self-limitation, self-de…

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avoidant attachment

Do You or Your Partner Have an Avoidant Attachment Pattern?

…nsights, attachment research has revolutionized our understanding of human development, the internal world, and the consequences… Learn More If we identify with having a dismissive attachment pattern, we should try to have compassion for ourselves. After all, we made this adaptation for our psychological survival. We should start to challenge a “critical inner voice” that may tell us we are “worthless and unimportant” or that our feelings and want…

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5 Ways to Rewrite Your Breakup Story and Feel Better

…he process. We can start to see challenges, even breakups, as a chance for development and personal growth. 4. Practice self-compassion. A recent study of people who experienced a breakup showed that practicing self-compassion can be one of the most effective tools for overcoming a rejection or breakup. “If you pick all of the variables that predict how people will do after their marriage ends, self-compassion really carries the day,” wrote Univer…

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Timeless: Understanding the Healthy Aging Brain

…is embedded in a matrix of social connectedness. The brain’s evolution and development as well as its changing skills and abilities throughout the lifespan will be interpreted as a succession of adaptations to changing social roles. From these perspectives, we will take a new look at the aging research from epidemiology and the social sciences and present some suggestions to promote healthy aging. Learning Objectives: Recognize some of the importa…

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relationship fights

Why You Pick Fights with Your Partner… and How to Stop

…inner voice” that’s formed from negative attitudes and interactions in our development. This “voice” is like a cruel internal coach that interprets the world around us, and it can get a lot louder when we’re triggered emotionally. It’s also particularly active when it comes to our closest relationships. It can exacerbate and exaggerate situations, which intensifies our responses and leads to more conflict. For instance, a small comment from our pa…

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Factors that Increase or Suppress Death Anxiety

…ious, but must eventually be surrendered. Significant advances in personal development, progress in psychotherapy, and increased movement toward independence and individuation throughout one’s lifetime combine to make individuals more aware of their separateness, vulnerability, and mortality. Whenever people move out of the familiar safety of their defenses and expand their lives, anxiety is aroused or heightened and they begin to experience their…

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Preventing Suicide: Treatments that Work: A Conversation with Dr. David Jobes

…their situation. Practitioners using this method engage the patient in the development of his or her own treatment plan. The flexible, adaptive, clinical approach has proven to be highly effective in a variety of clinical settings with a range of suicidal clients. In this online discussion, Dr. Jobes will introduce the methodology and research behind CAMS. By educating people on a treatment that’s been proven to be highly effective across a range…

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How to Fall Back in Love with Your Partner

…every human evolves and grows, so achieving this isn’t about denying your development or pretending to be an old version of yourself. In fact, it’s barely about your partner at all. In her new book, Daring to Love, Tamsen Firestone observes, “the truth is that the primary obstacle to love is within us. Our biggest challenge isn’t finding love; it’s confronting our defenses against it and daring to allow love to develop.” Therefore, falling back i…

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disorganized attachment, dan siegel, ambivalent attachment, avoidant attachment, mindsight

Identifying Your Child’s Attachment Style

…d. Because they can’t move forward. They often have to constrain their own development in order to maintain the idealization of the parent. They can’t own the certain ways the parent was negative in their life. They can’t own the impact of the negative parts of parenting on themselves. And they also haven’t given themselves the freedom to just say, “Hey, you know, my parent likes chocolate, I like vanilla,” you know, “forget them, I’m going a vani…

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