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Dr. Lisa Firestone Phd, Lisa Firestone, Psychalive, The Glendon Association

Dr. Lisa Firestone Parenting Articles

…PsychAlive profile page for her latest articles. Visit her website at www.drlisa*]}*firestone.com. How Childhood Defenses Hurt Us as Adults When we internalize destructive attitudes during hurtful or traumatic experiences in our past, we strengthen our “anti-self.” As we grow up, our anti-self resides within us and encourages us to take actions that replicate our past but that are damaging to us in the present.   How to Bully-Proof Your Children by B…

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I Hate My Life

…our real wants, goals and desires from undesirable outside influences. As Dr. Robert Firestone wrote in his book The Self Under Siege, “Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.” Firestone outlines four essential steps to the process of differentiation that can help individuals live free of imagined limitations. According to Firestone, in order for our real, authent…

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How to Stop Worrying

…on. Being 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 un…

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How to Stop Anxiety

…te or 32-minute version here. Anytime you’re feeling anxious, psychologist Dr. Lisa Firestone highly recommends trying the 4-7-8 breathing pattern in which you inhale for a count of four, hold your breath for seven seconds and release the breath for a count of eight. Repeat this cycle five times. This practice has been proven to release serotonin in the brain that naturally calms you down. It also interrupts shallow breathing, a common symptom of…

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A Guide to EMDR and Trauma

…orm of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s. In EMDR, a person with trauma — the client — is treated with bilateral sensory input. The goal is to activate both sides of the brain with stimuli, such as side-to-side eye movements or hand tapping. These inputs mimic the rapid-eye-movement stage of sleep. It takes the whole brain to help people process trauma. Processing allows trauma survivors to learn ways to manage the shut…

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How to Heal Trauma or Just Get Unstuck with EMDR

…orm of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s. In EMDR, a person with trauma — the client — is treated with bilateral sensory input. The goal is to activate both sides of the brain with stimuli, such as side-to-side eye movements or hand tapping. These inputs mimic the rapid-eye-movement stage of sleep. It takes the whole brain to help people process trauma. Processing allows trauma survivors to learn ways to manage the shut…

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One Tool We Need After a Tragedy

…our own resilience and response to trauma. While psychological first aid addresses a person’s immediate needs following a crisis with the goal of preventing harmful long-term effects, we also need to recognize that people may need more in-depth, long-term help, especially if they have suffered complex trauma. It disturbed me greatly to learn that dozens of witnesses to the Westlake shooting were present at the mass shooting in Las Vegas just over…

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Dr. Robert Firestone on "What is a Mentally Healthy Person?"

…person who was non-defensive; a person who had a strong sense of values; a person whose values were inner directed, rather than outer directed; a person who was neither defiant nor submissive, but independent. Basically, I would like them to have human qualities; the capacity to be compassionate, the capacity to deal with abstract reasoning, the capacity to be creative, to express their uniqueness as a person. Without a sense of your own values, y…

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Effective Methods of Treating Depression

…between voice attacks and early life experiences. The objective here is to help the person to develop compassion for themselves. Step III: The person answers back to the voice attacks. This is often a cathartic experience. Afterwards, it is important for the person to make a rational statement about how he or she really is, how other people really are, what is true about his or her social world from his or her own point of view (i.e. I am not stup…

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Suicide Prevention: Tools to Save a Life

…ive you tools to help those suffering. In this presentation, suicidologist Dr. Lisa Firestone will draw from the most up-to-date research on suicide prevention and share current best practices to help save a life. This FREE webinar will: Discuss warning signs for suicide Outline steps you can take to help someone considering suicide Give you language to talk about suicide Provide resources that can help save a life Ordering Information Once ordere…

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