Tag Archives: Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Awakening Into Awareness 16 Counseling 45 Bits of Attention

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Joel

 Just 45 Bits of Brain Allotted to Focus I read Albert Ellis’s books and listened over and over to his tapes, yet I was a raging monster. I felt a part or maybe most of my brain was not rational … Continue reading →

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RAGE

Posted on June 16, 2019 by Joel

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)for Rage? On the first page of “Anger: How to Live With and Without It.” Albert Ellis writes, “Most psychologists agree that you absolutely must feel anger. They see the newborn infant as expressing emotions comparable to … Continue reading →

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Mind Lifting

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Joel

Mind Lifting is Body Building for the Mind. Bad News: Life is one problem after another. Good News: Problems offer opportunities to check whether you are caught up in a Mind Drama of thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Each problem offers … Continue reading →

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Affects R Us

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Joel

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) proves effective if what has gone wrong is within recent and specific sets of life problems with clear cognitive underpinnings. In other words, CBT works well for everyday life problems, ie marital … Continue reading →

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Self-CARE In An Irrational World

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Joel

Care and Grief The bond is formed from the start, when infants are totally helpless, dependent for their life on their mothers and fathers, mostly their mothers, completely alone with no one to turn to. They cry to arouse the … Continue reading →

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Tough Love for Insomnia

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Joel

During my entire working career, I suffered from insomnia. I’d get in bed and just lie there wide awake. As the night progressed, my anxiety grew to panic. “How am I going to feel tomorrow?” I’ve got to get to … Continue reading →

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RAGE!

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Joel

Cognitive Therapy for Rage? On the first page of “Anger: How to Live With and Without It.” Albert Ellis writes, “Most psychologists agree that you absolutely must feel anger. They see the newborn infant as expressing emotions comparable to anger and … Continue reading →

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Emotional Slave

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Joel

Seven Primary Affect Systems SEEKING or expectancy RAGE FEAR LUST CARING PANIC/GRIEF PLAY These seven basic emotional systems are the results of years of data-based lab research of functions of deep-brain neural systems. Panksepp summarized this research  in “The Archaeology of … Continue reading →

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Ahead of the Game

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Joel

Ahead of the Game Here is a passage I fortuitously came across, perfect for this blog post— something written by a girl in one of my eleventh-grade high school English classes. I was teaching the talk and she was walking … Continue reading →

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Implicit Memories

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Joel

Implicit Memories When you read about a “violent monster” committing a mass shooting, he  – it is virtually always “ “he” –  you usually don’t read about him beginning life innocent, loving, and trusting. In those first years of total … Continue reading →

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