Ryan Leak discusses the difference between a bad day and a bad moment. Often times we allow one experience during the day ruin the entire day from start to finish. In this episode, Ryan shares through personal stories how we can overcome the negativity bias to keep the peace with ourselves and others. He shares how he responded to book reviews and emails with a positive response instead of rudeness.

This podcast is great for treating overthinkers and individuals with anxiety to understand how the negativity bias impacts our thinking. It provides counselors with education to normalize negative thinking patterns and help them create a new way of engaging. By understanding our negative emotions, we can use that energy to address triggers and solve problems. We can focus on higher level responses to build connection with others who respond to us negatively and engage them with kindness. Unlocking our genuine ways, we want to respond by being fully present with others and honoring our stories.

This resource can be assigned to clients to listen to this 13 minute podcast and review their understanding the next session. I recommend assigning the client homework to create example in which the negativity bias shows up and then how to address by understanding how it impacts body, emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and outcomes. By practicing this with several scenarios, the client can turn bad days into bad moments.

Tell Me About Your Pain is a 15-episode podcast providing listeners with a short but comprehensive explanation of the neuroscience of chronic pain and techniques to treat it. Hosted by authors Alan Gordon LCSW and Alon Ziv, the thirty-minute episodes are packed with treatment strategies for callers during live interviews and light-hearted stories of their journey toward creating Pain Reprocessing therapy (PRT). Gordon and Ziv offer highlights that cover the content of their book, “The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientific Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain” (2022) through a woven set of funny stories about their personal experiences as pain sufferers and, eventually, professional healers. The podcast spans a two-year period and is sponsored by Curable, an organization dedicated to offering pain-relieving strategies based on cutting-edge studies. This episode demonstrates a somatic tracking technique with two callers with very different manifestations of pain who find relief with the same treatment. Counselors can use this episode to familiarize themselves with the current evidence-based science for chronic pain treatment. The podcast provides exceptional information and examples to support understanding of the concepts. Strategies and techniques of PRT, like somatic tracking, are performed on air with clients, and Gordon demonstrates the multiple ways the brain manifests fear. While anyone experiencing pain is encouraged to speak with their doctor before taking on any treatment program, Gordon and Ziv offer an evidence-based education in pain neuroscience, self-assessment criteria, and treatment protocol for relief in an enjoyable thirty-minute podcast.