[ DISCLAIMER ]   When providing psychoeducational lessons on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy  (REBT), I teach people about the ABC model of self-disturbance (how people upset themselves  through use of irrational beliefs ). Now, I’ll address a finer point of this psychotherapeutic model  of wellness .   For context, REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate how when an undesirable A ction occurs and you B elieve an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable a

[ DISCLAIMER ]   When providing psychoeducational lessons on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy  (REBT), I teach people about the ABC model of self-disturbance (how people upset themselves  through use of irrational beliefs ). Now, I’ll address a finer point of this psychotherapeutic model  of wellness .   For context, REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate how when an undesirable A ction occurs and you B elieve an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable a

[ DISCLAIMER ]   When listening to an electronic dance music (EDM) DJ set  by Holly Loo , I heard her spin the track “ Can You Feel It? ” (2024) by Chymamusique and Floyd D. , featuring vocals by Wanda Baloyi . Lyrics state in part:   Can you feel  it? I never thought I’d feel  this way About somebody else who is not me All these feels  that you’ve given me Are so brand new Oh, they’re new to me Could this be love? Could this be true? Could this be real between me and you?  

[ DISCLAIMER ]   On Sarah McLachlan ’s 2005 electronic dance music (EDM) release Bloom: Remix Album was a track entitled “Fallen”...

[ DISCLAIMER ]   As a child, one of five albums that changed my perspective on life was Edutainment (1990) by hip hop group Boogie Down...

[ DISCLAIMER ]   Today, after having written and posted five unique blogposts regarding intimate partner relationships, I wanted to clear...

[ DISCLAIMER ]   When in graduate school for counseling (2009-2011), I met a fellow student and we began an intimate partner...

[ DISCLAIMER ]   I recall the opening scene of the action thriller film Cliffhanger (1993) in which Sylvester Stallone ’s character...

[DISCLAIMER] In 2015, after an unpleasant breakup, I came across a trove of electronic dance music (EDM) tracks which provided me...

[DISCLAIMER] The song It was in the summer of 2001 when I first heard Roger Sanchez’s song “Another Chance,” featuring the vocals of...

[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use KRS-One One of the most influential hip hop albums of my life, due to the transitional stage I was in...