SMART Recovery® Podcast

This podcast, entitled "Who Am I?," is the second of more to come in our workshop series, The Art of Living, featuring Ed Garcia, one of the key innovators of REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy). Please check back in the coming months for the next workshop in this series.

If you are a already signed up at SMART Recovery® Online, feel free to join an ongoing discussion regarding this installment in the workshop on the SMART Recovery message boards by clicking here.

Also, be sure to listen to last year's 3-part workshop podcast series by Ed Garcia, The Anatomy of Emotions. Here is part 1 of that series.

Mr. Garcia has an extensive and diversified background in the field of human behavior. He holds both an undergraduate and graduate degree from New York University. His post graduate work was conducted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Rational Emotive Therapy, where he worked extensively with Dr. Albert Ellis, one of the nation’s top Cognitive/Behavior Psychologists, whose work is represented in the SMART Recovery program. Upon completion of his four year internship, Mr. Garcia became a Fellow of the Institute and was appointed Co-Director of Clinical Training there, a position he held for five years until his move to Atlanta, GA, where he currently resides.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is the most widely used psychological method for combatting depression, for one simple reason: it works. In this brief workshop, Dr. Bill Knaus introduces you to cognitive, emotive, and behavioral techniques to overcome and prevent depression. He shares innovative, practical and evidence-based ideas from the newly published The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression 2nd Ed. (New Harbinger, June 2012).

Bill Knaus, Ed.D. is famous for his work in helping people overcome procrastination. He is a clinician and was Director of post graduate training in REBT. He originated the self-help movement in procrastination and has three bestselling books in this area. Bill originated rational emotive education, an evidence-based positive mental health program for kids and teens. He is known by many in SMART Recovery as the author of The SMART Recovery Primer, a manual that helped launch SMART. This former professor has authored more than 20 books.

For more of Bill's work on defeating procrastination, please listen to the workshops from the summer of 2011, available here at Smart Recovery Podcasts. Click here for the first of four workshops in that series. Also, check out the "Combatting Procrastination" online presentation on YouTube by visiting the Smart Recovery® Channel. Click here for the first of three currently available presentations, and stand by for more to come!

This podcast is the first of more to come in our workshop series, The Art of Living, featuring Ed Garcia, one of the key innovators of REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy). Please check back in the coming months for the next workshop in this series.

If you are a already signed up at SMART Recovery® Online, feel free to join an ongoing discussion regarding this workshop on the SMART Recovery message boards by clicking here.

Also, be sure to listen to last year's 3-part workshop podcast series by Ed Garcia, The Anatomy of Emotions. Here is part 1 of that series.

Mr. Garcia has an extensive and diversified background in the field of human behavior. He holds both an undergraduate and graduate degree from New York University. His post graduate work was conducted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Rational Emotive Therapy, where he worked extensively with Dr. Albert Ellis, one of the nation’s top Cognitive/Behavior Psychologists, whose work is represented in the SMART Recovery program. Upon completion of his four year internship, Mr. Garcia became a Fellow of the Institute and was appointed Co-Director of Clinical Training there, a position he held for five years until his move to Atlanta, GA, where he currently resides.

Hank Robb, Ph.D., Supervisor for the Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy and founding member of SMART Recovery presents thoughts of great interest to those in the forefront of psychological thought as well as to the individual who wants to create the life he/she wants to live.

Though it often seems as though the most important question is: “Is it true?” we actually have choices about which questions we make the most important in our lives. For example, it is likely “true” that you have a nose on your face, but is this fact really helpful? In this presentation, Dr. Robb will explore an alternative basis for choosing which questions we make the most important in our lives. Asking ourselves “Is this helpful?” may better help us to develop a more fulfilling life than “Is this true?” Join us and find out for yourself!

Dr. Tom Horvath, President of SMART Recovery, has been kind enough to join us for a timely discussion of relapse during the 2011 holiday season, reviewing the causes and situations most commonly associated with relapse and discussing methods for prevention, and if necessary, coping.

Dr. Tom Horvath speaks, in an interview with Monica on Blogtalkradio.com's Safe Recovery, about the tools, information and community of SMART Recovery and its focus on abstinence from addiction to substances or to activities.  He emphasizes the power of choice and that there are many paths to recovery.  His brief overview of SMART and its principles is followed by lively and interesting questions from callers.

Welcome to Part 3 of our SMART Recovery online series: The Anatomy of Emotions featuring Ed Garcia.

Ed Garcia, one of the key innovators of REBT, discusses the nature of feelings and where they come from, focusing on guilt and depression and how to build emotional resilience, face discomfort, and enact changes in our thinking.  He uses listener questions to expand upon his discussion. Part 3 of 3.

Welcome to Part 2 of our final SMART Recovery online mini-workshop on Procrastination featuring Dr. Bill Knaus.

Dr. Bill Knaus, author of over 20 books and foremost expert in the field of Psychology on the topic of Procrastination joins SMART to offer a mini-workshop in which he explains the many guises of procrastination and how it works, as well as offering concrete solutions and tips on how to defeat the wide range of procrastination issues so prevalent for all of us.  Part 2 of 2.

Welcome to our final SMART Recovery online mini-workshop on Procrastination featuring Dr. Bill Knaus.

Dr. Bill Knaus, author of over 20 books and foremost expert in the field of Psychology on the topic of Procrastination joins SMART to offer a mini-workshop in which he explains the many guises of procrastination and how it works, as well as offering concrete solutions and tips on how to defeat the wide range of procrastination issues so prevalent for all of us.  Part 1 of 2.

Dr. Bill Knaus, author of over 20 books and foremost expert in the field of Psychology on the topic of Procrastination joins SMART to offer a mini-workshop in which he explains the many guises of procrastination and how it works, as well as offering concrete solutions and tips on how to defeat the wide range of procrastination issues so prevalent for all of us.  Part 2 of 2.