Two Unexpected Encounters
A colleague from a recent hike, Grace Fung, sent me a video of four deer who ran by as we were hiking, this was unexpected encounter #1 of 2 on this hike. I am attaching a couple hiking photos from the same day! I hope you enjoy them! A web visitor asked who the...
Do We Have a “Self?” / Truth vs. Happiness
Hi Dr. Burns, Being as you love my questions here is another. It is a heavy philosophical one but don’t feel the need to give a long answer. The question is: Should we believe what is true or what makes us happy? Albert Ellis, in his book “the Myth of Self...
More Amazing Pics!
Hi friends and colleagues, I suddenly discovered bunch of additional wonderful Maryam Hamidi photos from our Sunday hike. You can see several views from near the top as we were hiking, plus some shots of my living room, including the flowering ornamental cherry trees...
Promised Photos / Inner Hiking
Hi friends and colleagues, Yesterday I promised to show you some photos from our Sunday hike, which was 3 1/2 hours long. There were six of us on the hike.We went up through the Hidden Villa Ranch, which is gorgeous, but one of our hikers, found two embedded tics in...Hello New Friends!
Dear friends on Facebook and Twitter and website members on www.FeelingGood.com, I want all of you to know how much I appreciate all of your love and support! This weekend, I reached my limit on 5,000 FB friends. This upsurge happened all of a sudden, starting just...029: Live Session (Mark) — Introduction & Testing Phase (Part 1)
Podcast Live Therapy Session: “I’ve been a failure.” Introduction This is the first in a series of podcasts that will feature live therapy. As you listen, you’ll have the opportunity to peak behind closed doors to see how TEAM-CBT actually works in a real-world...
David’s Upcoming Trauma Workshop
Exciting news! I will make a three-city east coast swing in April presenting my two-day workshop on trauma treatment. This workshop features a live demonstration with an audience volunteer who has been struggling with depression and anxiety as the result of trauma. It...
Is Happiness a Distortion?
Hi Dr. David Burns, I am confused about the idea that depression and anxiety result from distorted thoughts. For example, you say that anxiety always results from the distortion called Fortune Telling—making unrealistic negative predictions that something terrible is...
028: Scared Stiff — The Motivational Model (Part 6)
In this Podcast, David and Fabrice discuss the fourth powerful model in the treatment of anxiety—the Motivational Model. The key here is bringing the patient’s subconscious resistance to conscious awareness, and melting it away with paradoxical techniques. This is...