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She or Her
[DISCLAIMER] A relatively short time after graduating high school in 1995, my mindset was akin to an ignorant know-it-all. I thought I...

Deric Hollings
Jul 12, 20248 min read


CP Time
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use According to one source, “colored people’s [CP] time” is a United States “expression referring to...

Deric Hollings
Jul 12, 20244 min read


A Malfunctioning AC
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Given how hot Texas temperatures often are, I’m grateful for having a functioning in-home air...

Deric Hollings
Jul 12, 20247 min read


ABC with XYZ
[DISCLAIMER] Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is an active-directive form of cognitive behavior therapy that serves as the...

Deric Hollings
Jul 11, 20246 min read


Concern and No Concern
[DISCLAIMER] With my approach to Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I invite people to consider how little control and...

Deric Hollings
Jul 11, 20246 min read


Friend Dispute
[DISCLAIMER] Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is an active-directive form of cognitive behavior therapy that serves as the...

Deric Hollings
Jul 11, 20245 min read


Can't Let It Go
[DISCLAIMER] To punch a window I wasn’t stationed aboard Camp Kinser in Okinawa, Japan for too long when the military police (MP) officer...

Deric Hollings
Jul 10, 20246 min read


Costs and Payoffs
[DISCLAIMER] As is the case with many matters in life, the practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) comes with costs and...

Deric Hollings
Jul 10, 20244 min read


Moral and Ethical Should Beliefs
[DISCLAIMER] In a blogpost entitled People Who Live in Glass Houses, I identified an assortment of should-type beliefs associated with...

Deric Hollings
Jul 10, 20247 min read


Legal Should Beliefs
[DISCLAIMER] In a blogpost entitled People Who Live in Glass Houses, I identified an assortment of should-type beliefs associated with...

Deric Hollings
Jul 10, 20246 min read


Predictive Should Beliefs
[DISCLAIMER] In a blogpost entitled People Who Live in Glass Houses, I identified an assortment of should-type beliefs associated with...

Deric Hollings
Jul 10, 20246 min read


Ideal Should Beliefs
[DISCLAIMER] In a blogpost entitled People Who Live in Glass Houses, I identified an assortment of should-type beliefs associated with...

Deric Hollings
Jul 10, 20246 min read


Preferential Should Beliefs
[DISCLAIMER] In a blogpost entitled People Who Live in Glass Houses, I identified an assortment of should-type beliefs associated with...

Deric Hollings
Jul 10, 20247 min read


Empirical Should Beliefs
[DISCLAIMER] In a blogpost entitled People Who Live in Glass Houses, I identified an assortment of should-type beliefs associated with...

Deric Hollings
Jul 10, 20247 min read


Recommendatory Should Beliefs
[DISCLAIMER] In a blogpost entitled People Who Live in Glass Houses, I identified an assortment of should-type beliefs associated with...

Deric Hollings
Jul 10, 20246 min read


Conditional Should Beliefs
[DISCLAIMER] In a blogpost entitled People Who Live in Glass Houses, I identified an assortment of should-type beliefs associated with...

Deric Hollings
Jul 9, 20246 min read


Absolutistic Should Beliefs
[DISCLAIMER] In a blogpost entitled People Who Live in Glass Houses, I identified an assortment of should-type beliefs associated with...

Deric Hollings
Jul 9, 20246 min read


Must You Tolerate Abuse?
[ DISCLAIMER ] *All persons referenced or alluded to herein are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law Bhad Bhabie ...

Deric Hollings
Jul 8, 202412 min read


Tower of Information
[DISCLAIMER] Thou shall be ignorant? As a child, I was confused about the origin story regarding the Tower of Babel featured in Genesis...

Deric Hollings
Jul 7, 202413 min read


Non-Dogmatic Preferences
[DISCLAIMER] I grew up hearing derivatives of the phrase, “Opinions are like assholes – everybody’s got one, they all stink, and...

Deric Hollings
Jul 7, 20243 min read
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