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How to Preserve Your Individuality While Quarantining with Your Partner

…hese issues: Creating Thriving Relationships with Drs. Dan Siegel and Lisa Firestone Be honest. Honesty is vital for your integrity as an individual and necessary for establishing trust in your close relationship. Even in situations where it is difficult to be honest, it’s best to be truthful. When you are dishonest or deceptive, you are betraying yourself. When you are not honest with your partner, you are fracturing his or her sense of reality….

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The Voice of Addiction

…of them that is self-critical, self-sabotaging and self-destructive). Dr. Firestone will explain the steps of Voice Therapy, a cognitive, affective, and behavioral approach to challenging one’s core negative beliefs about themselves. She will help individuals and therapists working with clients learn ways to overcome the thought processes that influence addictive behavior. Dr. Firestone will further emphasize the importance of helping individuals…

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Dr. Sheldon Solomon on Terror Management Theory: Exclusive Interview

…guy named Phil Shaver, who’s an attachment theory guy and the other is Bob Firestone because right about the same time, nobody in academic psychology took us very seriously. Except for Phil and Bob, who each pulled us aside. Your dad wrote to us and we used to go to conferences with purple ditto sheets because no one would publish our work. And I honestly don’t know – I will ask Bob when I see him next, you know – how he found one of these. But he…

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The Sweet Spot: Relief from the Fear of Death through Mindfulness

…make things up to take away their fear. Kids know when we are being real. Firestone says “The most important thing is to let kids have their feelings. We can help them regulate their emotions with our care and concern.” Having this kind of emotional support helps kids become resilient, in spite of life’s unanswerable questions. But children aren’t the only ones who fear the vast, menacing concept of death. Plenty of adults grapple with it, too, a…

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Become a Better Parent by Understanding Yourself

…their children. By bringing in the latest child development research, Dr. Firestone introduces parents to a more compassionate, self-reflective approach to parenting. She will emphasize how by making sense of their own experiences growing up, parents are actually doing the least selfish thing they can do for their kids. Parenting is not about perfection. We all want to be the best parent we can, but to the degree that we are blind to our own past…

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Why Am I Still Single? Learn the Barriers That Ward Off Love

…ting into healthy and fulfilling relationships. It will highlight what Dr. Firestone has found to be the most significant, internal reasons people have trouble finding love. These include defenses, unhealthy attractions, fears of intimacy, pickiness, low self-esteem, fear of competition, isolation, routine and rule-making. Many people harbor psychological defenses that they believe will protect them but that actually ward off love. Dr. Firestone w…

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How to Get Over a Breakup

…lationship is often the result of our having created a fantasy bond,” said Firestone. A couple forms a fantasy bond, usually unconsciously, as a way to feel that they’re not alone, while remaining emotionally distanced from each other. The relationship is often marked by less physical affection, less real, personal relating, fewer acts of kindness, more deadening routines and increased defensiveness. The patterns a couple falls into can ultimately…

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Mental Health Professionals React to U.S. Abuse of Prescription Drugs

…r tendency to treat the symptoms as opposed to the problem,” said Dr. Lisa Firestone. “Instead of asking how we can get ourselves to sleep, we should be asking “why aren’t we sleeping? What is making us so anxious? As people develop the threshold to feel the sadness in their lives, they open up a space to feel the joys. They can begin to address obstacles, build resilience, and make choices that will be more fulfilling.” Dr. Firestone and her coll…

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Seven Qualities of an Ideal Partner

…relationship. Besides, it always feels good to have fun with someone! Read Dr. Lisa Firestone’s Article on the Characteristics of an Ideal Partner Creating Thriving Relationships: Free Webinar with Drs. Daniel Siegel and Lisa Firestone Length: 60 Minutes Price: FREE On-Demand Webinars Watch Now In this Webinar: This Webinar will feature a lively discussion between friends and colleagues Drs. Dan Siegel and Lisa Firestone on the essential… Learn M…

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Resources from How to Raise an Emotionally Healthy Child

…they can talk to us when something is going wrong? This webinar with Lisa Firestone, Ph.D. emphasizes the importance of considering the emotional health of our children, teaching parents techniques for understanding and responding to the emotions of our children, while gaining a better understanding of ourselves and our reactions to our children. View slides from How to Raise an Emotionally Healthy Child To request a full video recording of this…

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