Decreasing Anxiety During Anxious Times w/Dr. Mary Wilde

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dr. Mary Wilde is a board-certified pediatrician, author, and mother of 8 who spends a lot of her time helping people decrease anxiety during anxious times. It’s fair to say that with the continuing information regarding COVID-19 coming from all angles these are truly anxious times. So what can you do to keep your own anxiety and fear in check? How does grounding yourself help put you in a better position to help those around you, your family, your children? And can a little bit of anxiety actually be good for you? In today’s episode of The Virtual Couch, Dr. Mary gives a brief overview of this latest coronavirus, COVID-19, and gives suggestions on ways that we can talk to our kids about all the changes and uncertainty in the world. - Dr. Mary also gives some great advice on how to make the most of the downtime not only for yourself but also for your family. She gives specific examples of how to use an integrative approach, tapping into your mind, your body and your spirit to help decrease anxiety during these anxious times. Dr. Mary has a WEALTH of resources and her own program for lessening anxiety on her website https://drmarywilde.com/home-page and you can find several links that she referenced during this episode below. - This episode of The Virtual Couch is sponsored by Betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) With the continuing “sheltering” rules that are spreading across the country PLEASE do not think that you can’t continue or begin therapy now. 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 own mental health a priority, http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight. - And please go to http://tonyoverbay.com today and sign up now to receive more information on Tony’s upcoming free workshop on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), ACT can help you truly focus on what is important to YOU, it will help keep you not only present, able to be there for yourself, your family and your loved ones during even the most uncertain times, but it can also help you make solid decisions moving forward that can help bring you a tremendous sense of purpose. - Tony's new best selling book "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions" is now available on Kindle. https://amzn.to/38mauBo - Tony Overbay, is the co-author of "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions" now available on Amazon https://amzn.to/33fk0U4. The book debuted in the number 1 spot in the Sexual Health Recovery category and remains there as the time of this record. The book has received numerous positive reviews from professionals in the mental health and recovery fields. -- You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program The Path Back by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.

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0:00.0	Coming up on today's episode of the virtual couch, I'm going to be talking with board-certified pediatrician, author, Mother of Eight, Dr. Mary Wilde, on how to use an integrative approach.
0:10.5	And we're talking your mind, your body, as well as your spirit, to decrease anxiety during these anxious times.
0:15.7	Plus, she's given a pretty amazing metaphor of how the COVID-19 virus is similar to a new breed of dog.
0:21.1	You're going to have to hear this one. And she gives solid examples of things to do for yourself,
0:24.9	as well as your family, to help truly connect during these difficult days. That and so much more
0:30.1	coming up on the virtual couch.
0:34.1	Hey, everybody. I just wanted to take a second. And yes, this is an ad, but I want this to be a little bit different right now. Honestly, whether or not you click through my link or follow the referral code I'm about to give you is a bit irrelevant. I think for right now with a lot of the things that we're kind of dealing with as a country as a world, the pandemic around COVID-19, the coronavirus,
0:55.3	that there are a lot of people that are struggling with some of their mental health challenges.
0:59.6	And I know that because of the texts that I get as a therapist, that people are worried about
1:03.6	getting into to see their therapists, especially if they've worked on a lot of things in the past.
1:08.3	And so I just want to encourage you to reach out to your therapist.
1:10.6	A lot of therapists do have telehealth options available. I know that's reached out to a lot of things in the past. And so I just want to encourage you to reach out to your therapist. A lot of therapists do have telehealth options available.
1:13.3	I know that's, I reached out to a lot of my clients yesterday, let them know that.
1:16.7	But if yours doesn't or if you are really, I don't know, maybe this is the thing that has
1:22.1	caused you to feel like you really do want to talk to somebody or you are having maybe an extra bit of anxiety or depression is
1:28.9	kind of kicked in, then online therapy really is, it does work. And so go to betterhelp.com.
1:35.1	If you want betterhelp.com slash virtual couch to get 10% off your first month again. I hope you can tell
1:40.5	that the last thing I want to do is sound like I'm trying to capitalize on this, but I feel like BetterHelp.com has been an amazing partner, and I get feedback regularly of people
1:49.3	that didn't realize that the world of online counseling could be as beneficial as it could be.
1:54.0	So just head over there. If you want the 10% off your first month, you can use my code,
1:59.0	the betterhelp.com slash virtual couch. But regardless,
2:01.6	just if you really need help,
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