Product Description

This Webinar with Dr. Lisa Firestone will help individuals and therapists make sense of the serious psychological consequences of emotional hunger and will clarify the confusion between what might look like love from real, nurturing love. This distinction helps a person to understand and make sense of the impact of having an emotionally hungry parent on their psychological development and on their relationships, especially with partners and children.

The Webinar will draw on Dr. Robert Firestone’s theoretical understanding of emotional hunger as well as attachment theory to explore the causes and consequences of emotional hunger. It will illuminate how a person can feel for their experience, overcome the impact of emotional hunger, and learn to love themselves.

The Webinar will explain:

• How to distinguish between emotional hunger and love, including examples of both
• The serious psychological impact of emotional hunger
• How to identify whether a person is experiencing emotional hunger or love
• The underlying causes of emotional hunger
• How to develop a more compassionate attitude toward yourself if you have been impacted by emotional hunger
• Methods for breaking maladaptive patterns that result from having an emotionally hungry parent
• Ways to develop more inner security
• How to shift to being more loving, and less emotionally hungry

Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the difference between emotional hunger versus love
2. Explain how emotional hunger can contribute to an ambivalent attachment pattern in children or preoccupied attachment pattern in adults
​​​​​​​3. Describe strategies for parents and couples to develop more inner security and come to express  more attuned nurturing emotional responses

Presenter: Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.

90 Minutes