The Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Podcast

I am a psychologist trained in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). In this episode, I discuss how to cultivate the kind of thinking that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals. I have also written on this subject, so if you would like to read what I have written on this subject, go here: https://rebtdoctor.com/blog-self-help-posts-on-rebt/the-mindset-for-achieving-long-term-life-goa...

In this episode, I discuss the experience of unhealthy other-pity. When loved ones have pain and suffer, it is not uncommon for those who care for them to experience their own negative emotions. I show how it is important for caretakers to have healthy negative emotions related to the pain and suffering being experienced by a child, parent, or spouse. These emotions will enable the caretaker to ca...

In this episode I show you how to recover from a romantic relationship that has ended.

Using REBT you can learn how to control your emotional reactions to different circumstances. This episode teaches you the ABC Model of Emotion and how to leverage it to better control your emotional reactions.

Agreement a with a rational attitude is insufficient to experience emotional change. You need to develop conviction in the new attitude. This episode will show you the steps involved in developing conviction in your new attitude so that you achieve emotional change and a deep philosophical change.

Learn how to psychologically prepare yourself, using REBT philosophy, to take a calculated risk that you think will lead to long-term pleasure and fulfillment.

In each episode I teach the core concepts of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy for problems of daily living.

This episode shows you 1. How to “Love Your Fate” and 2. How REBT can help you do this. REBT and Stoicism go together and the Stoics taught us the value of Amor Fati. REBT teaches us how to have some degree of happiness even when reality is grim. REBT derives from Stoicism and both can help you flourish in life.

In this episode I discuss the rigid attitudes people have towards themselves and the feelings of inferiority, depression, guilt, and shame that result.

I discuss the impact General Semantics theory has had on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. I explain how words and labels about people can deceive and lead to emotional disturbance. I give examples of precise language that better captures reality.

This episode explains how to practice thinking rationally on a regular basis to change your fundamental attitude towards adversity using REBT philosophy.

This episode covers REBT’s concept of Awfulizing and shows how it can be overcome through proper reasoning. It discusses the self-defeating emotional impact of Awfulizing.

I discuss how our self-limiting philosophy of wanting to change quickly and easily may bias us into holding the invalid attitude we cannot change when it is simply a matter that we won’t change because of the effort involved.

I discuss the Principle of Emotional Responsibility and the two fundamental human disturbances, 1. Discomfort Disturbance and 2. Ego Disturbance.

In this podcast I discuss the application of REBT to emotional upset due to whining and complaining about how life “absolutely should” be. Learn how moaning is self-defeating and is a choice you do not have to make.

This episode shows you how REBT philosophy can be applied to bearing the burdens of life.

This episode discusses how REBT helps you to liberate yourself from the unhealthy feeling of shame.

This 7 min podcast examines three self-defeating attitudes that will block you from taking calculated risks. The approach used is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, the pioneering CBT Psychotherapy created by Dr. Albert Ellis.

This episode explains why it is invalid to think good and bad people exist. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy’s philosophical view on how bad behavior does not mean a person is a bad person is explained. Not rating people as people, both yourself and others, is a core concept in REBT and is the keystone of emotional health.