Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

David Burns wrote the book on cognitive behavioral therapy, literally. His 1980 bestseller Feeling Good has sold over five million copies, and this podcast is the audio evolution of that work, updated with his newer TEAM-CBT framework. What makes the show remarkable for confidence building is Burns's practice of conducting live, unedited therapy sessions with volunteer participants. You get to hear someone work through self-doubt, perfectionism, or social anxiety in real time, with Burns guiding them through specific techniques. These sessions can run close to two hours, and the shifts are sometimes dramatic. He also records shorter "Ask David" segments with co-host Rhonda Barovsky, tackling listener questions with the same precision. With 508 episodes in the archive and a 4.7 rating from over 800 reviews, there's an enormous library of material. Burns doesn't deal in vague encouragement. He explains exactly which of his 50-plus cognitive techniques applies to a given pattern of negative thinking and why. Some episodes get deep into clinical methodology and can feel like attending a graduate psychology seminar, which is either a strength or a drawback depending on what you're looking for. But if you want to understand at a nuts-and-bolts level why your brain defaults to self-criticism and how to interrupt that cycle using evidence-based methods, nothing else in the podcast world comes close to this level of rigor.