The Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Podcast: Recent Episodes
Walter J. Matweychuk, Ph.D.
This podcast is educational and aims to facilitate understanding and application of core principles and strategies of Dr. Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy to problems of everyday living. It is produced by Dr. Walter J. Matweychuk, who studied and trained with Dr. Ellis for many years.
In this episode of the REBT podcast, I discuss how parents can cope with an adult child who refuses to have a relationship with them. Parents often suffer greatly when rejected by their adult children, and REBT can help you survive this painful loss. To read the extended piece that goes beyond this video, go to my website blog at: https://rebtdoctor.com/how-to-survive-when-your-adult-child-cuts-you-out-of-their-life/
We all know someone who has emotional problems and self-defeating behaviors. In this podcast, I discuss some ways to help your friends, family, and business associates to help themselves using the powerful ideas of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).
In this podcast, I show you how to cultivate healthy attitudes toward the challenges of aging so that you can live your life to the fullest despite the inevitable changes brought on by aging. You can get over getting older with REBT!
In this episode, I explain logical thinking that facilitates acceptance of unfortunate events. In REBT, accepting things that are unfortunate and that have occurred allows for emotional health. After listening, you will be in a better position to understand why bad things should have happened once they have occurred and how this point of view will benefit you in life.
In this episode, I discuss distinguishing between flexible, healthy attitudes toward adversity and rigid, unhealthy attitudes towards adversity. The characteristics and benefits of flexible and non-extreme thinking are delineated. I discuss how to transform your rigid, self-defeating attitudes into healthier ones that will lead to self-helping behavioral responses.
In this episode, I show you how to adopt flexible and non-extreme attitudes that will help you cultivate unconditional life acceptance. Visit my REBTDoctor.com website to access other freely available educational resources on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
In this podcast, I discuss how REBT can assist you in opening your mind to constructive criticism. I discuss the attitudes that lead to ego defensiveness and healthy alternative attitudes consistent with REBT theory. I argue that growing as a person depends on being capable of listening to constructive criticism and acting upon it.
In this episode, I talk about integrating a few of the core concepts of REBT and how they interact to produce a synergistic effect. I use calculated risk-taking as an example of this integration. If you would like to read the email I distributed that goes beyond this video, click on this link to go to my website: https://rebtdoctor.com/29-blog-self-help-posts-on-rebt/calculated-risk-taking-and-core-concept-integration-in-rebt
In this episode, I discuss the realistic idea that humans disturb themselves and must work on undisturbing themselves and restoring a state of emotional well-being daily.
I discuss breaking free of the ego cage in today's podcast. In REBT, we encourage you to abolish your ego and limit your evaluations to what you do and the parts of you without summating these evaluations and issuing yourself a global score linked to your self-worth. If you adopt the philosophy of unconditional self-acceptance, you can rate your performances and learn without fearing failure and experiencing shame and other unhealthy negative emotions. If you would like to read the blog post that goes beyond this video, go here: https://rebtdoctor.com/29-blog-self-help-posts-on-rebt/breaking-free-of-your-ego-cage
In this podcast, I discuss the importance of doing psychological pushups with the flexible and non-extreme attitudes of REBT to have them ready for when adversity strikes. Daily psychological pushups will strengthen your conviction in these powerful ideas so that you can readily implement them and respond optimally. Like an athlete, prepare and strengthen your rational attitudes so that you can change what you can change and accept what you can at a moment's notice.
In this podcast, I reveal the healthy philosophical attitudes of REBT which facilitate unconditional life acceptance which is necessary to cope with medical illness, the process of dying, and death.
In this episode, I discuss how overgeneralizations are created by our rigid attitudes. I discuss how they prevent us from dealing with reality as it is. Generalizing is good, but overgeneralizations lead to ineffective behavior and emotional upset. I discuss how to catch your overgeneralizations and modify them, so you are in sync with what you are actually facing. For more information on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and to access other free educational resources, go to REBTDocto.com
In this episode, I discuss a well-known Zen koan and use it to show how REBT ideas overlap with Zen philosophy. I hope you enjoy the episode and visit my website REBTDoctor.com where you will find many free educational resources to understand better what REBT is all about.
In this podcast, I discuss the twenty elements that are foundational to a healthy philosophy of life and the core ideas of REBT. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is more than a pioneering form of cognitive behavior therapy. In my view, REBT is also a philosophy of life. These elements can be used diagnostically to assess your own philosophy of life and you can use this list to target areas where you might improve to have greater personal happiness, meaning, and emotional well-being. (Note: You may want to visit my website REBTDoctor.com for other resources that are free for you emotional education.)
In this episode, I discuss how you can learn REBT by watching my Saturday Rational Emotive Conversation Hour. Still, you can also do worksheets on my website REBTDoctor.com and teach REBT philosophical ideas to your friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues. Note: Attendance is free to attend my conversation hour. Please write to me at REBTDoctor@gmail.com to request a Zoom invitation to attend on Saturdays.
In this episode, I discuss how people can effectively cope with the negative changes of aging by adopting REBT-based philosophical attitudes. A written transcript of this episode is found here: https://rebtdoctor.com/29-blog-self-help-posts-on-rebt/accepting-the-changes-and-adaptations-of-aging
I would also encourage you to visit my website, REBTDoctor.com, to access many other free audio and video resources to learn the ideas and strategies of REBT.
Also, please note that every Saturday on Zoom, I conduct a free demonstration of REBT with a volunteer. It is at 9 AM Eastern, 2 PM in the UK, 4 PM in Moscow, 6:30 PM in New Delhi, and 10 PM in Tokyo. To get your invitation to attend, write to me at REBTDoctor@gmail.com and request your complimentary invitation.
In this podcast I show how Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy can help you give up your over seriousness which is based on an ego rating. Rating your personhood, essence or ego lies at the core of narcissism, shame, ego based depression, and ego based performance anxiety. REBT offers the solution of unconditional self-acceptance to replace the self-esteem which is responsible for taking yourself too seriously. If you are interested in REBT go to my website REBTDoctor.com and register to attend my free demonstration on Saturdays. During this Zoom conversation hour I take a volunteer and work on a real problem they are grappling with and show them how to use the attitudes of REBT to help themselves deal more effectively with their problem. Go here for more information: https://rebtdoctor.com/5-rational-emotive-behavioral-weekly-zoom-conversation-hour-no-charge-to-attend-to-learn-rebt.html
In this podcast, I discuss how you can avoid taking responsibility for other people's feelings and live an assertive life. This is not to say you will intentionally aim to make insensitive remarks to others, but it does mean that you are able to assert yourself in matters that are important without fear of hurting another person's feelings. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is a philosophy and psychotherapy that liberates you to be self-directed and take responsibility for your feelings, behaviors, and life. Give a listen and learn!
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-goals
Note: On Saturday mornings at 9 AM in Philadelphia, I hold a free Zoom demonstration of this approach with a volunteer willing to address a real problem they have. You can watch me work with this volunteer and learn about REBT and how it might apply to your life. One day, you may choose to volunteer and have me show you how to apply the sensible ideas of REBT to your particular problem. To obtain a Zoom invite, go to my website and submit your email address, and you will get your Zoom invite. To register, go here: https://rebtdoctor.com/rational-emotive-behavioral-weekly-zoom-conversation-hour-no-charge-to-attend-to-learn-rebt.html
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 care for themselves and their loved ones and avoid overextending themselves to care for their child, parent, or spouse. I identify and discuss the unhealthy feelings of other-pity, guilt, and depression and the attitudes caretakers hold that give rise to these emotions. Finally, I discuss healthier attitudes the caretaker can choose to adopt to more effectively respond to the challenging scenario of caring for an elderly parent, sick child, or spouse.
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.