By clicking to subscribe to the podcast below, you are agreeing to automatically recieve new podcast as they are published. It is a great way to keep current with new podcast that come out every couple of weeks.
By clicking to subscribe to the podcast below, you are agreeing to automatically recieve new podcast as they are published. It is a great way to keep current with new podcast that come out every couple of weeks.
1. Introduction to REBT - 10/16/2006
In this video / audio, I discuss the purpose of this video / audio series. I also go over the basics of REBT, and how the techniques are used to help people disturb themselves less.
2. Frustrating Relationships - 10/22/2006
People often disturb themselves over relationships. Since we are social creatures, we live our lives within relationships. Partners, bothers, sisters, mother and father can all do things that trigger us to disturb ourselves.
3. Depressing Relationships - 10/30/2006
In continuation with the relationship series, in this video we talk about how we depress ourselves because of the messages we tell ourselves about others. For example, "no one loves me."
4. Jealousy - 11/5/2006
Jealousy can be an unhealthy negative emotion, and it can be a low level healthy concern. It serves the you best to keep jealousy as a concern so that the emotion doesn't get in the way of a rational reaction.
5. Anxiety in Relationships - 11/16/2006
In this video, I cover the different ways that we disturb ourselves over relationships. Specifically related to the different anxieties about how others "should" behave.
6. Summary - 11/19/2006
Periodically, I like to go over the ABC's of rational living so that we don't lose focus on the basic technique to stopping ourselves from disturbing ourselves.
7. Happiness - 11/28/2006
In this video I talk about ways we can make ourselves happy reguardless what is going on in our lives.
8. Happiness 2 - 12/3/2006
This is a continuation of video 7, and here I discuss effective self-talk and techniques that help us achieve happiness.
9. Addictive Relationships - 12/10/2006
Sometimes relationships become addictive and equally self-destructive. In this video I discuss how to identify an unhealthy relationship and what to do about it.
10. Guilt - 12/16/2006
Guilt usually has two components; doing something bad, and thinking that you are a bad person for doing that bad thing. The second part to this is irrational, I discuss...
11. Holiday Blues - 12/26/2006
During the holidays, we disturb ourselves thinking about people we lost in the past. We can also choose to think enjoyably about the holidays and those we share it with
12. Hope - 12/30/2006
Hope is a definition, just as many of the other messages we tell ourselves. However, hope is a rational thought that causes healthy emotions.
Grief can be healthy or complicated. In this video I go over how people sometimes continue to grieve for extended periods of time, and its self defeating behaviors.
Psychotherapy is now more widely accepted. In this video, I try to close the gap stigma has created between people who need help and those who get it.
15. Sexual Dysfunction: Men - 1/21/2007
Men sometimes suffer from sexual dysfunction, which can be a debilitating condition that feeds on itself. Once a man suffers from this, the fear can keep him from performing.
16. Sexual Dysfunction: Women - 1/28/2007
Just as men can have sexual dysfunction, women can have it as well. I look at this disorder from a mental health point of view, not a medical point of view.
Parents disturb themselves because their children are not behaving the way they "should" behave. Also, they disturb themselves because of what others think of them.
Couples meet, have sex, and possibly design a life together. In this video I discuss why many relationships go well and others don't work out.
20-Somethings suffer from a distinct confusion about what they "should" be doing in their lives, and what others percieve and expect of them.
Anger is an emotion that we all experience at one time or another in our lives because we think others "should" behave one way or another, and when they don't, it becomes an injustice to us.
42. Suicide - 12/15/2008
When thinking of suicide it's important to accept the thoughts and emotions, then look at how you may be catastrafizing the situation, look for support from friends and family, and look at the possibilities the future holds.
41. Separation and Divorce - 11/17/2008
Here, I look at common thoughts and emotions that people have when contemplating separation and divorce and ways to manage them.
40. Emotion as a Distraction - 10/20/2008
Sometimes we experience an emotion that distracts us from the underlying problem. Ask yourself, What if I didn't have this emotion, how would my life be?
39. Breathing Exercises - 9/15/2008
In this video, I go over 3 different breathing exercises that you can master to control anxiety and panic attacks, and overcome them when they occur.
38. Meaning of Life - 8/14/2008
There are 3 things that normally define peoples meaning; a loved one, a job/deed, and the potential to achieve whatever you desire.
37. Self-Efficacy - 7/11/2008
This is part 2 of the series on unconditional self acceptance. Here, I speak about importance of believing in yourself to overcome any adversity and the benefits of self - efficacy.
36. Self-Concept - 5/23/2008
This is part 1 of a two part series on Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy; two fundamental ideas necessary to fight off unhealthy negative emotions.
35. Secondary Trauma - 4/19/2008
Aid and help workers often burn out and suffer from secondary trauma upon hearing difficult stories day in - day out. It's important to identify the trauma and treat it.
34. Dealing with Losses - 3/15/2008
In this video I discuss how we allow losses to stress out our bodys through depression and anxiety, and how to avoid this stress.
33. Confident Statements - 3/1/2008
In this video I review the 2 things you need to believe in yourself, and help constructing confident statements from insecurities.
32. Gaining Security - 2/3/2008
IIn this video I go over the 2 essential things to gaining self security; trust that self security will help you overcome your disturbance and trusting that you will work hard to gain that self security.
31. Introduction to new videos - 1/12/2008
n this video I go over our ideas to move this project forward. I also go into a little about insecurities; a concept at the root of much disturbance.
In this video I go over 9 techniques people with addictions can use to help themselves overcome the addiction.
It is a good idea to have a plan when tring to stop an addiction. The stages of change model helps structure the process and motivate the individual move accross stages and stop her addiction.
Sometimes we hold Anger, Resentment, and Sadness because someone did us wrong. We are the ones that are suffering and can stop disturbing ourselves by holding them accountable and forgiving.
27. Overcoming Shyness - 7/11/2007
Shyness starts in early age with rejection, and gets reinforced throughout a persons life. Just as the individual learned this behavior, he or she can unlearn it and learn to be more social.
26. Paranoia - 7/2/2007
Paranoia comes under fear, fear comes under anxiety, and where there is anxiety, there is fear of something bad happening in the future...
Homosexuality can be looked at from the view of a person who is homosexual, and from a person who doesn't agree with homosexuality. Each disturb themselves differently, and here we look at both.
In Process 2 we go over techniques how people can get from the intellectual to the emotional. If you know something is right for you, how can you feel it so that you can actually do it.
In Process 1 we go over the basics of the importance of going from an intellectual understanding to making it emotional so you can actually make change.
In this society, we focus a lot on age; how some people are "too old," or "too young" to behave a certain way. In this video I go over how we don't have to accept these messages given to us by others.
Being aware of what we are thinking, doing, and feeling, gives us a distinct advantage to managing our behaviors and emotions. I go over the benefits of mindfulness in every day life.