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Acting As If
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Introduction I recently listened to a Lex Fridman podcast episode featuring Ray Kurzweil who is said...
Deric Hollings
Sep 21, 202213 min read
The Elegant Solution
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use ABC Model One Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) technique discussed less frequently within my...
Deric Hollings
Sep 19, 202212 min read
Wild Out
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Brief Background on LOX I recently had a conversation with someone concerning my approach to Rational...
Deric Hollings
Sep 16, 202240 min read
"Some people did something."
[DISCLAIMER] Purpose I typically do not find value in memorializing catastrophe. Still, I’m aware that others do. Being that today marks...
Deric Hollings
Sep 11, 202217 min read
Oki-woke, Pinoke
[ DISCLAIMER ] Photo credit , fair use **Pinocchio spoiler alert** Background A fan of the 1940 Walt Disney Company (“Disney”) classic...
Deric Hollings
Sep 10, 202226 min read
Shame Attacking
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use **Carrie spoiler alert** Carrie In the 1976 film Carrie, “Carrie White, who lives with her...
Deric Hollings
Sep 8, 202210 min read
A Hammer in Search of a Nail
[DISCLAIMER] “I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.” – John...
Deric Hollings
Sep 5, 20229 min read
You Gon' Die: The Existential Window
[DISCLAIMER] “The ‘therapeutic window’. What a delicious term for the interruption of medical treatment! Might you perhaps hurl yourself...
Deric Hollings
Sep 3, 20227 min read
Iss-ME vs. Iss-YOU
[DISCLAIMER] In my youth, I learned a concept from my dad that has served me well throughout life. As well, it’s a technique I use with...
Deric Hollings
Aug 31, 20225 min read
Something's Missing
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Earlier this morning, when performing so-called “toxic masculinity” behavior by challenging gravity...
Deric Hollings
Aug 29, 20225 min read
Change Ur Beliefs
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Today’s gym time gem—a song heard when working out—interrupted my sweat-time flow and had me nodding...
Deric Hollings
Aug 28, 20226 min read
The Lowering Tide
[ DISCLAIMER ] An aphorism often misattributed to former President John F. Kennedy is, “A rising tide lifts all boats.” If true, simple...
Deric Hollings
Aug 27, 202210 min read
AntiFACTser: A Pandemic of the UnFACTsinated
[ DISCLAIMER ] Photo credit , fair use Unique Disclaimer First things first, I’m apolitical. I’m not a Republican, on the Right, a...
Deric Hollings
Aug 26, 202218 min read
Green with Anger
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Recently, I sent a clip of the She-Hulk: Attorney at Law series to someone, because I wanted input...
Deric Hollings
Aug 24, 202227 min read
Petty Betty
[DISCLAIMER] As a matter of demonstration—though not to provide therapy within the limits of this blog entry—consider imaginal exposure....
Deric Hollings
Aug 16, 20228 min read
The Steel Man Technique
[DISCLAIMER] Take a look at this room. Is it racist? You didn’t misread that. I’m asking if the room in this photo is racist. I don’t...
Deric Hollings
Aug 15, 20228 min read
Was Freud Right?
[DISCLAIMER] Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud is arguably one of the most controversial figures in the field of psychotherapy, so much so that...
Deric Hollings
Aug 8, 202210 min read
Spaz on That Ass
[DISCLAIMER] As today is yet another day that ends in ‘y,’ I’ve discovered a new target of call-out culture group bullying. This time, it...
Deric Hollings
Aug 1, 20228 min read
What a Pity
[DISCLAIMER] I once knew a person, whom I’ll refer to as Rosco, who owned an American Pit Bull Terroir—commonly referred to as a “pit...
Deric Hollings
Jul 23, 20229 min read
My Ni
[DISCLAIMER] In his song entitled “The eND,” lyricist Torae, along with Shaquawna Shanté, addresses a topic I think is worth expanding...
Deric Hollings
Jul 12, 202214 min read
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