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thinking positively

Thinking Positively: Why You Need to Wire Your Brain to Think Positive

…e relationships more importance in your life. Be generous According to Dr. Lisa Firestone, “Practicing generosity is a mental health principle, and it could be the very key to a happy and healthy life.” Being generous is a natural confidence booster, as we often like ourselves the most when we are being kind and giving to others. Generosity also fosters feelings of community and interconnectedness. As Jason Marsh and Jill Suttie of the Greater Goo…

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Ep 3: Why Do We Feel Attracted to Rejection?

…To find out how this works and why this is, we’ve invited a guest to talk about her personal experience with a recent break up and what she’s learned about herself in the process. Listen in on her conversation with Dr. Lisa Firestone to discover why rejection is so alluring and how to move on from this painful phenomenon. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS…

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Finding Healthy and Satisfying Sexuality Through Self-acceptance

…oted in negative overlays from their past. This 90-minute Webinar with Dr. Lisa Firestone will emphasize how healthy sexuality isn’t about a specific strategy, technique, or how often you have sex; it’s about having a healthy attitude toward your own sexuality that extends to your sexual relationships. The Webinar will explore the following subjects: Common self-critical thoughts or “critical inner voices” people experience around sexuality,their…

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Protected: Overcoming Breakups and Rejection: Webinar Video and Resources

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Change Your Attachment Style to Have a Better Life

…lationships and live the life you imagined, not the one prescribed to you from your past. To learn more about how to write a coherent narrative and develop an earned secure attachment, join Dr. Lisa Firestone and Dr. Daniel Siegel for the online course “Making Sense of Your Life: Understanding Your Past to Liberate Your Present and Empower Your Future.”…

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Overcoming Breakups and Rejection

…y healthier, more satisfying relationships. In this 90-minute Webinar, Dr. Lisa Firestone will introduce individuals and therapists to psychological tools that can help a person on their path to heal from a breakup or rejection: These include: Exploring how the past has shaped one’s relationship patterns, choices, and reactions Recognizing critical self-attacks that are triggered by a separation Understanding one’s emotions: how to express feeling…

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Ep 1: Why Do We Push and Pull in Our Relationships?

…g more closeness and the other needing more space. Psychologists often refer to this as the Pursuer/Distancer Dynamic. Recent research has shown that couples stuck in this mode are actually at the highest risk for divorce. In this episode, we discuss this common relationship problem with Dr. Lisa Firestone, who explains the source of this dynamic and offers practical advice for how each person in the couple can shift their own behaviors to break f…

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Developing Secure Attachment: Two-Part Online Workshop

    In this Webinar: This online workshop with Dr. Lisa Firestone will provide tools to help people heal insecure attachment, resolve trauma, integrate their emotions, and flourish in all their relationships. This two-part online workshop will introduce: How childhood attachment patterns affect individuals and their relationships A framework for resolving childhood trauma A process to develop earned secure attachment Cutting-edge neurobiological…

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The Fantasy Bond

by Robert W. Firestone, Ph.D. Foreword by R.D. Laing, M.D. Based on 28 years of research into the problem of resistance, this book offers a consistently developed set of hypotheses centering around the concept of the “fantasy bond,” an illusion of connection originally formed with the mother and later with significant others in the individual’s environment. The book develops the concept of the core defense of the “fantasy bond” and describes the…

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identity, sexuality, psychalive, sexual stereotypes,

Identity, Sexuality, and Society’s Assault on the Self: A Commentary on John Irving’s Novel, In One Person

…e: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation co-authored by my father Robert Firestone, Joyce Catlett, and myself. To me, Irving’s appreciation and love of people’s differences, his acceptance of the diversity of human sexuality are a tribute to the values of nonconformity, tolerance and inclusiveness. As one reviewer noted, “Irving isn’t a moralizing writer, but he is a moral one.” In a guest essay on Amazon.com, Irving describes the sexual awakeni…

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