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I Rose All Odds Against Me
[ DISCLAIMER ] My transition from living in Amarillo, Texas to Aurora, Colorado in the late ‘80s was difficult. I was made fun of for...
Deric Hollings
Apr 178 min read
Do You Remember House?
[ DISCLAIMER ] I’m fortunate enough to have been into electronic dance music (EDM) by the time Eddie Amador released the track “ House...
Deric Hollings
Apr 165 min read
Mentally Corrupt Decisions
[ DISCLAIMER ] As Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is informed by Stoic philosophy , this blog entry is part of an ongoing...
Deric Hollings
Apr 164 min read
What You Gonna Do?
[ DISCLAIMER ] Within my blog, I sometimes forget to write about the milder forms of electronic dance music (EDM) which have influenced...
Deric Hollings
Apr 163 min read
This Cake Smells Unpleasant
[ DISCLAIMER ] In a blogpost entitled You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too , I described an axiom of the post’s namesake by...
Deric Hollings
Apr 154 min read
Rejected and Dejected
[ DISCLAIMER ] I often hear people discuss a misperceived Action-Consequence (A-C) connection , rather than a Belief-Consequence (B-C)...
Deric Hollings
Apr 159 min read
Who You Are
[ DISCLAIMER ] In a blogpost entitled Who Are You? I addressed a scene from the 1951 animated film Alice in Wonderland —based on the...
Deric Hollings
Apr 155 min read
Non-Aggression Principle - Don't Put Your Hands on Me
[ DISCLAIMER ] Personal Anecdotes When providing psychoeducational lessons regarding my approach to Rational Emotive Behavior...
Deric Hollings
Apr 1318 min read
Cookin' Up
[ DISCLAIMER ] I recently listened to episode #2261 of Joe Rogan ’s podcast in which he described a concept that evoked my memory of a...
Deric Hollings
Apr 126 min read
What's the Big Idea?
[ DISCLAIMER ] Photo credit , Everett Collection, fair use In childhood, I enjoyed watching reruns of shows featuring The Three Stooges...
Deric Hollings
Apr 126 min read
The Oblivion of Directionlessness
[ DISCLAIMER ] When recently working with a client, I discussed purpose and meaning as antidotes to directionlessness—the experience...
Deric Hollings
Apr 126 min read
Out Alive
[ DISCLAIMER ] Photo credit , photographer: Scott Dudelson /Getty Images, fair use On her 2019 album This Is Not My Final Form ,...
Deric Hollings
Apr 93 min read
Perception, Action, and Will
[ DISCLAIMER ] As Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is informed by Stoic philosophy , this blog entry is part of an ongoing...
Deric Hollings
Apr 96 min read
Never Change
[ DISCLAIMER ] Released on Loose Cannons 001 (2016), produced by Bozack Morris , was the track “ Never Change ” which was performed by...
Deric Hollings
Apr 85 min read
Going Through the Same Thing
[ DISCLAIMER ] I recently had a (subjectively) lovely mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”) services...
Deric Hollings
Apr 87 min read
You Will Realize You Are Dying Before Your Time
[ DISCLAIMER ] Photo credit , artist: Don Aguillo , fair use In childhood, I enjoyed watching Masters of the Universe and ThunderCats...
Deric Hollings
Apr 84 min read
I Said, "Good Day!"
[ DISCLAIMER ] During the time that it aired, I was a fan of That ‘70s Show (1998-2006) which was set between 1976 to 1979. One of the...
Deric Hollings
Apr 75 min read
Bad Words
[ DISCLAIMER ] Photo credit , fair use In the 2013 black comedy film Bad Words , directed by and starring Jason Bateman , Guy Trilby...
Deric Hollings
Apr 75 min read
"Having Fun" Has Been Replaced for "Being There"
[ DISCLAIMER ] During the peak of my time as an electronic dance music (EDM) DJ in 2000, Italian producer Spiller released the song “...
Deric Hollings
Apr 74 min read
I Feel for You
[ DISCLAIMER ] Given the available electronic dance music (EDM) genres, I have an affinity for French house . For instance, during the...
Deric Hollings
Apr 67 min read
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