Please read the following real-life scenarios and how you can apply REBT to address them
Love in the digital age is a perplexing thing. A left swipe here, a “ghosting” there, and suddenly the landscape of romance looks more like a video game leaderboard than a courting ritual. Why get swept off your feet and
Today’s world is full of a variety (or at least, the illusion) of endless choices. At our fingertips, we are given access to every kind of cuisine, every possible route to a destination, and even every possible single person in
Daily life is full of those little moments where boredom sneaks in. We scroll our phones, check social media, grab a coffee, snack on something, go for a walk, chat with a friend, the list goes on. There’s nothing wrong
Art has been at the core of my identity for as long as I can remember. The “A” at the end of my name was always allocated to “artistic” when making acrostic poems in elementary school. If I was feeling
In the last few years of my life, I have found myself straddling the gap between adolescence and adulthood with little elegance. After three glorious and unsupervised years of college (might I add, in the beautiful Hudson Valley), I received
As my second month of commuting to the big New York City apple begins, I feel as though I am embodying the movie character Elle Woods — Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde. Instead, use your imagination and make me her
The concert I had been looking forward to for months was almost here. We were getting ready to head out, but a few hours before the show, my friend realized he had actually bought tickets for a different date—in a
It’s summertime—warm and fuzzy. All those plans I made while winter raged on have finally come to life. It’s time! Here I am, sitting on a beach, enjoying my drink as the sun caresses my olive skin. But wait—shouldn’t this
I am currently in my third year of my Ph.D. program, and from the start of my journey into this helping profession, I have strived to be the best therapist, extern, student, and support I can be—to my mentors, my
Breakups suck. Nobody likes them, yet most of us have gone through them. I certainly have experienced my fair share of them. Often after a breakup, I find myself reflecting on how I thought the relationship went and what I