If You're Procrastinating Right Now, Listen to This
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy
David Burns, MD
4.6 • 899 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Let's face it. We ALL procrastinate. Attempts to "help" nearly always backfire.
Dr. David Burns gets it. Procrastinators don't want help — they want something that actually works. In his upcoming free webinar on February 25, Dr. Burns introduces his paradoxical approach and ten powerful TEAM CBT tools that deliver results.
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Everyone is welcome! Therapists can purchase two CE credits if they attend the live event.
See you there!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, David. |
| 0:01.0 | Zivda, thanks for joining me. |
| 0:02.8 | We've got this fantastic, totally free procrastination cure webinar coming up. |
| 0:09.2 | That's a big kind of claim. |
| 0:11.4 | What's up? |
| 0:12.4 | Is this a lot of BS or what's going to happen in these two hours on February 25th? |
| 0:19.1 | Is that right? |
| 0:20.1 | Yes, it's on February 25th, and it's a two-hour webinar where we're going to have you and Dr. |
| 0:25.2 | Jill Levitt teaches about 10 paradoxical tools for overcoming procrastination. |
| 0:30.7 | Yeah, well, that sounds like a lot of big, big words. |
| 0:33.6 | What does that mean, paradoxical tools? |
| 0:36.6 | Well, the whole psychotherapy field is filled with |
| 0:40.1 | bullshit and errors, as some of you have figured out by now. But the big problem with procrastination |
| 0:46.3 | is mental health professionals always try to help. And if you try to help someone who's |
| 0:51.4 | procrastinating, two things will happen. First of all, your efforts to |
| 0:55.4 | help them are guaranteed to fail, 100%. But now, the failure will be yours because you tried to help them, |
| 1:02.6 | your son, your daughter, yourself, or your patient, and now they'll say, oh, well, so-and-so tried to help me, |
| 1:09.9 | but it didn't work. And so now it becomes your |
| 1:12.7 | failure. And we're going to go in the opposite direction. This will be a totally amazing, fun, |
| 1:18.8 | and weird, but weird in a kind of happy, healthy way. Webinar. I'm going to sell you on all the |
| 1:24.7 | reasons not to change. And I'm going to use 10 amazing paradoxical techniques, |
| 1:30.7 | like the triple paradox, the I stubbornly refused technique, the problem solution list, the little |
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