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- Garden teaches you an easy and effective system of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT & REBT).
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HANDOUTS in business card size format.
- 2 Healthy Options: Problem-solving & Coping
- 3 Rs Basic Practice
- 3 Rs Question Thinking
- 3 Rs Question Thinking 2
- 3 Rs Switch from Harmful
- 4 Rs Switch from Risky
- 4 General Coping Responses
- 4 Specific Coping Responses
- 4 Ways Hurt & Help Self
- 6 Spiritual Practices for Salvation
- 6 Step Mental Cycle
- 7 and 12 Types of Thinking Errors
- Attach and Detach from Knowing
- Be Your Simple One True Self
- Choose Helpful Thinking
- Cycle of Shit: The 5 Steps of
- Cycle of Shit: The 6 Steps of
- Focus on My Results
- Free Identity with 3 Rs
- GADSAP: Reduce Problems and Pain by Reducing
- Garden Your Mind: Recognize Weeds
- Garden Your Mind: Remove Weeds
- Garden Your Mind: Remove Weeds version 2
- Garden Your Mind: Replace Weeds
- Garden Your Mind: Recognize Destructive Feelings
- Human or Object?
- Manage My Mind
- Mind-Moving Basic Protocol for Relaxing
- Mind-Moving Detachment from Stress
- Overcome Insecurity with USS
- Prosper with God
- Recognize Control Failure
- Remove Demands & LFT
- Remove with 3 Ps: Price, Produce, Protect Testing
- Remove with Motivation, Function, Prediction Testing
- Remove with Practical, Factual, Logical Testing
- Remove with Practical, Factual, Logical Testing #2
- Remove Self-Disabling Thinking
- Resist Resisting & Resist Attending
- WWBADD: Reduce Pride & Pain by Reducing
HANDOUTS in letter size format.
- 3Rs Worksheet Part 1
- 3Rs Worksheet Part 2
- 3Rs Worksheet Part 3
- 4Q-2HO-3Rs
- 4Q-2HO-3RS: blank format
- 5 Levels of Living
- 5 Propositions for Effective Counseling
- 5 Thinking Positions: Example Words
- 6 Practices for Maintaining Your Mental Health
- 6 Steps to Sanity
- 6 Steps to Sanity: Worksheet
- 7 Questions to Ask Yourself
- 10 Rules for Parenting
- 12 Reasons Responsible for Feelings
- Behavioral Problems Checklist
- Coping Statements: 3 Part
- Coping Statements: 50 Ways Not Me
- Coping Statements: Detachment
- Coping Statements: Short & Simple
- Cycle of Shit: The 5 Steps of
- Cylce of Shit: The 6 Steps of
- Cycle of Shit: The 12 Steps of
- Cycle of Shit: Over 50 Ways to Stop
- Cycle of Shit: Just the 12 Steps
- Do the Right Thing
- Drink from Your Own Well
- Emotional Problems Checklist
- Experience and Self: How to Relate to Experience
- Gambling: Overcome Garbage
- Insecurity to Security with the 3 Rs
- It’s not Me!: Remove Attachment
- Male-Female Communication Patterns
- Marriage & Family Counseling Simplified
- M-M: Mind-Moving Directions
- M-M: Mind-Moving Explanation
- Mind Breathing: Balance, Meditate, Relax
- Never About Me and No Immediate Danger
- Parenting: Help Children Run Their Own Mind
- Passion Over Reason
- Pathways Counseling: Neural Paths to Mental Health
- Procrastination: Overcome
- RAP with Your Mind
- Reminder Cards: How to Make
- Remove: Disabuse until Disgust
- Remove: Turn to SDS with 6 Ps
- Self-Care: 7 Ways to Take Good Care of Myself
- Should Reason or Passion Rule?
- Stress: 9 Ways I Cause Myself Stress
- Switching: How to
- Weakness: The Dilemma of Human Nature
- Word Breathing: Strengthen, Meditate, Relax
Quotations from Various Sources
Organized Alphabetically
“A fool is only a fool because he won’t see he is a fool.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” —James Joyce
“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.” —Hebrews 12:8
“By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 194
“Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.” —Proverbs 15:5
“Failure doesn’t have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 206
“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” —Hebrews 12:6
“If we eliminated all errors, we would also eliminate much discovery, art, insight, learning, and creativity that results from facing errors.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?” —Hebrews 12:7
“My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:” —Proverbs 3:11
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“When receiving correction, the wise seeks to learn and the fool seeks to justify with excuses.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Quotations from Scripture
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:” —Proverbs 1:5
“Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” —Proverbs 11:14
“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.” —Proverbs 12:15
“Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace is joy.” —Proverbs 12:20
“Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors they are established.” —Proverbs 15:22
“Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.” —Proverbs 19:20
“Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.” —Proverbs 20:18
“Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.” —Isaiah 16:3
“Extol not thyself in the counsel of thine own heart; that thy soul be not torn in pieces as a bull [straying alone].” —Ecclesiasticus 6:2
“As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel shall fear at no time.” —Ecclesiasticus 22:16
“Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel.” —Ecclesiasticus 30:21
“A man of counsel will be considerate; but a strange and proud man is not daunted with fear, even when of himself he hath done without counsel.” —Ecclesiasticus 32:18
“And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.” —Ecclesiasticus 37:13
“Let reason go before every enterprise, and counsel before every action.” —Ecclesiasticus 38:33
“Gold and silver make the foot stand sure: but counsel is esteemed above them both.” —Ecclesiasticus 40:25