Walter J. Matweychuk, Ph.D. In REBT, we use the ABC framework to understand our self-defeating emotional responses to Adversity. We also use it to help transform this unhealthy reaction into a healthy one, better enabling us to change what we can and live well with what is unchangeable. When we face unchangeable adversity, our healthy response enables us to find … Read more
Utopias do not exist. You had better heed the message of REBT on this one. REBT acknowledges that you prefer life to be a particular way, but it teaches you to strive to change what you dislike and accept those aspects of life that you cannot change. Learn to seek evidence to support a healthy, … Read more
In Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), we encourage unconditional other-acceptance. It is a form of acceptance you apply to friends, family, colleagues, and everyone else you encounter. When you unconditionally accept others, you distinguish between the other individual and the parts of that individual you like, dislike, and evaluate as neutral. You restrict your judgment … Read more
Albert Ellis, the originator of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, argued that believing in the unchangeable influence of the past is invalid and self-defeating. Human behavior is highly unpredictable. Just because a person reacts in some circumstances one way does not necessarily predict they will respond in that same way under all conditions forever more. Yes, … Read more
When you are having a negative emotional or behavioral response to a negative state of affairs, stop and ask yourself: Am I reacting to this negative state of affairs with a healthy or unhealthy emotional and behavioral response? What are my many different goals in this situation, and is my response undermining my chances of obtaining them? … Read more
In Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, we encourage you to live your life to enjoy yourself. Albert Ellis, the originator of REBT, encouraged people to assume this was the only life they would likely have and to live it to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. He pointed out that humans are naturally inclined to have goals … Read more
Let us be honest life is challenging and, at times, downright hard. Frustration, disappointment, loss, burdens, betrayal, incompetency, and complexity abound. In response, you experience emotions, feelings, and behavioral reactions. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a philosophy for managing your responses to get more of what you want and less of what you don’t … Read more
Whether we acknowledge it or not and cultivate and exploit the capability, humans can choose their emotions. You can think about your thinking, observe your internal emotional experiences, and work through your unhealthy negative feelings. However, you cannot achieve a never-ending state of emotional well-being. In Rational Emotional Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), we hold a … Read more
In REBT, we encourage people to eliminate self-created emotional upset by cultivating self-acceptance and other acceptance. We promote unconditional acceptance of all humans while critically evaluating the deeds which they carry out. The goal is to judge what people do but never to overgeneralize and rate the total person. Directing judgment this way helps us … Read more
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) attempts to do several things. It teaches you sensible and self-helping ideas and attitudes. It also hopes you learn a process that enables you to transition from self-defeating emotional-behavioral states into self-helping states as needed. It aims to show you how to skillfully change what you can and live with … Read more
