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The Virtual Couch

A New Perspective on Modern Parenting: Living in the Present (aka Herding Cats)

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tony Overbay, LMFT, offers an in-depth exploration of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and The Nurtured Heart Approach (NHA) to provide a fresh perspective on mindful parenting. The...

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I'm going to start today with a letter.

0:02.5

I guess it's an email, technically, already showing my age.

0:06.2

But the email said, hey, Tony, first off, big fan here.

0:09.0

I've recently dived headfirst into the Mind, the Mirror and Me podcast.

0:12.8

And I've been religiously tuning into your TikTok Q&A's with Sydney.

0:17.4

Watching you both navigate those sessions with such ease and humor is like watching a well

0:21.8

coordinated dance. Yes, I'm that big of a fan. I know you can't dance, but wish you could. That's

0:27.4

kind of creepy, actually, because I know that that's absolutely true. I don't ever remember

0:31.1

saying that on a podcast. But with less stepping on toes and more sharing of knowledge. Here's the

0:36.8

thing. I admit, back when my kids

0:38.6

were little whirlwinds of energy, I kind of sort of, okay, totally, skipped over any and all of

0:43.9

your parenting content. It was a mix of being in the survival mode trenches and thinking,

0:48.6

hey, I've got this, how hard can it be? And I was truly coming to your podcast for your marriage

0:53.2

content. And for that, honestly,

0:55.2

I'm grateful. And then she literally spelled out hashtag, four pillars for life. Fast forward to now,

1:01.5

and as my kids morph into these complex, opinionated, wonderful, and yes, that's in quotation

1:06.6

marks, many adults, I'm starting to realize I might have missed a couple of hundred memos.

1:12.1

I know you say you can't give somebody else the epiphany or the aha moment, but I think

1:16.7

technically as a therapist, you can because you gave me mine. Cue the light bulb moment.

1:21.8

Cue the light bulb moment. I see the relationship you have with your daughters, Mackie and

1:25.9

Sydney, and it's like watching a master class in parenting.

1:29.0

That's the dream, right?

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