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The Virtual Couch

All Up in Your Feelings? One Simple Tool to Get Out of Your Head and Back into Your Life!

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever found yourself all “up in your feelings?” Or how often do you feel angry, frustrated, depressed, or anxious? One of the most beneficial things you can do when emotions, thoughts, or feelings feel overwhelming is realize that two different things are happening at that moment of feeling overwhelmed. There is the thinking self and the observing self, and learning how to move from thinking to observing or noticing can be one of the most powerful tools to help you stay present and grounded even in the most challenging times. Tony discusses the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principle of “self as context” and shares how this simple shift can make immediate and radical changes to your overall mood. Tony references a chapter from the Youth AOD Toolbox on “Self as Context.” You can find that chapter here https://www.youthaodtoolbox.org.au/h7-introducing-self-contextWith the continuing "sheltering" rules spreading across the country, PLEASE do not think you can't continue or begin therapy now. http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch can put you quickly in touch with licensed mental health professionals who can meet through text, email, or videoconference often as soon as 24-48 hours. And if you use the link http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch, you will receive 10% off your first month of services. Please make your mental health a priority, http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight.You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program, The Path Back, by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com And visit http://tonyoverbay.com and sign up to receive updates on upcoming programs and podcasts.Tony mentioned a product that he used to take out all of the "uh's" and "um's" that, in his words, "must be created by wizards and magic!" because it's that good! To learn more about Descript, click here https://descript.com?lmref=bSWcEQ

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather?

0:25.8

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.7

Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Mm-hmm.

0:33.6

Mm-hmm.

0:35.6

Mm-hmm.

0:36.6

Mm-hmm. Oh, oh. Hey, come on and take a seat on the virtual couch.

0:52.3

Hey, everybody, welcome to episode 299 of the virtual couch. It is crazy to think that I am almost at 300 episodes of this podcast. But I am still your host, Tony Overbay. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified mindful habit coach, writer, speaker, husband, father, four, ultramarathon runner, and creator of the Pathback, an online pornography

1:10.8

recovery program that is helping people reclaim their lives from turning to unhealthy things like

1:15.2

pornography as a coping mechanism. So go to pathback recovery.com. You can find out more there. And thank

1:20.3

you for a lot of the crossover folks. I know numbers have been going up on the virtual couch again,

1:24.6

and it is because of the people that are coming here from my new podcast

1:28.4

waking up to narcissism which is 14 episodes in and in 14 episodes it's already pulling in numbers

1:34.5

that it took probably a couple of hundred episodes of the virtual couch to so i know there's such a need

1:39.3

there and it is a very specific type of podcast but if you haven't checked that please, Joe, go check out waking up the narcissism wherever you get your podcast.

1:48.0

But let's get to the topic today.

1:50.3

Why I am talking about self as context.

1:54.4

And that was a very awkward sentence to begin.

1:57.3

But last week's episode, I talked about why actually trying to pursue happiness or almost

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