Blog: Self-Help Posts on REBT

Ten Steps to Emotional Well-Being Through Self-Therapy

I have modified my REBT self-help worksheet to guide you along a numerical path to emotional well-being. Just watch the video and see how easy I have made it for you to help yourself when you are experiencing an unhealthy negative emotion and engaging in self-defeating behavior. To download the new worksheet click here: https://rebtdoctor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/32.-The-ABC-Step-by-Step-Self-Help-Worksheet-06.10.25.docx

Permission Statements and Excuses

It is not the negative thought that stops you from doing what is best in the long run; it is the failure to counter it. In REBT, we teach people to take responsibility for countering self-defeating attitudes and thoughts. The first step in change is to acknowledge the nonsense you tell yourself without putting yourself … Read more

The Importance of Creating Your Purpose

In REBT, we propose that you cultivate flexible and non-extreme attitudes as a way of establishing and maintaining healthy, that is, self-helping, reactions to adversity. This stance towards the most significant challenges of life is the basis for the unconditional self, other, and life acceptance, which are the foundation of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. Daily … Read more

How to Maintain Emotional & Behavioral Change – Preventing Relapse and Backsliding

The theory of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) starts with the position that people have two biological tendencies. The “rational” or “self-helping” tendency expresses itself with flexible and non-extreme attitudes, allowing us to solve problems using logic and scientific reasoning. REBT therapy builds, strengthens, and looks to expand this side of us. Unfortunately, we also have … Read more

Self-Definitions Lead to Self-Imposed Limitations

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso  REBT teaches healthy attitudes toward yourself, others, and life to minimize pain and maximize pleasure. REBT promotes long-term hedonism. From the REBT perspective, life has no inherent meaning. We give life meaning by … Read more