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The Virtual Couch

Dr. Shelly Hoover, Author of Timeless Sisters, ALS Advocate, On Making the Most of Every Moment

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Shelly Hoover is a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, and friend. She’s a veteran, author, educator, and advocate. It’s what she does. It’s who she is. In 2013, her neurologist told her that she only had two to five years to live. After a year of trying to figure out what was slowly happening to her body, Shelly was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Some call it that Ice Bucket Challenge disease. From shellyhoover.com (http://shellyhoover.com), “whatever you call it, it’s a fatal diagnosis with no effective treatment or cure. Yet I have much to live for and I’m determined to live in gratitude and joy regardless of circumstance. I feel alive when while I’m encouraging others to live their best life.” - Tony interviews Shelly about their shared experience running around a middle school track to help motivate kids, and raise money for the school, and how to make the event bigger, and better in the future, only to find that a few short months later, Shelly would begin to recognize the initial symptoms of what would eventually be diagnosed as ALS. - Shelly has also written a book, Timeless Sisters, available on Amazon https://amzn.to/38fiMuJ The book is about three strong women, Janene, Cora, and Amadahy, who live in the same North Carolina town centuries apart. Janene, a modern-day high school teacher, loses her career and identity in the face of a devastating illness. Cora, an enslaved person during the Civil War, flees the Yarbrough plantation after her family is murdered. She finds refuge at Mama Hattie’s house only to encounter the killer years later. Amadahy, a Cherokee before the European invasion, loses a child and her husband leaves. She finds an unlikely love while on a river adventure and returns to find trouble at home. A sacred, maternal talisman connects the three women as they search for lasting peace. Follow this fast-paced, emotional journey to the collective sisterhood at the river. The book has received phenomenal reviews from both critics, and readers alike. You can learn more about Shelly at http://shellyhoover.com - 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. - The book tackles tough questions with answers from both the expert and the addict's point of view. Tony, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and creator of The Path Back, an online pornography addiction recovery program that has helped hundreds of people overcome turning to pornography and other compulsive sexual behaviors as a coping mechanism, and Joshua Shea, former addict, and author of the book “The Addiction Nobody Will Talk About” read their respective answers to questions such as "Finding out he's addicted to porn has turned me off to sex completely, what should I do?" And "How much do we tell the kids?

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, coming up on today's episode of the virtual couch, I interview a friend, a mentor,

0:06.7

Dr. She's a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter, a sister, a friend. She's a veteran,

0:11.9

an author, an educator, and an advocate. It's what she does, and it's who she is. And in 2013,

0:17.1

her neurologist told her that she only had two to five years to live. And after a year of trying to

0:21.4

figure out what was slowly happening to her body, Shelly was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig's

0:26.4

disease. Some call it the ice bucket challenge disease, but from her website, and I quote,

0:31.2

whatever you call it, it's a fatal diagnosis with no effective treatment or cure, yet I have much

0:35.9

to live for. And I'm determined to live

0:37.6

in gratitude and joy, regardless of circumstance. I feel alive while I'm encouraging others to

0:42.6

live their best life. Today she talks about her book, Timeless Sisters, and she truly does,

0:48.1

just live that message. She feels alive when encouraging others to live their best life. And I think

0:53.0

you will be more determined to live your best life. And I think you will be more determined

0:55.8

to live your best life after hearing this interview today. I can't wait to share this with you.

0:59.7

Coming up next on the virtual couch.

1:12.5

Hey, everybody, I'll make this one quick.

1:15.8

Now, as a therapist myself, of course, I recommend that everybody give therapy a try.

1:19.3

Truly, we're all hanging on to some things that would be helpful to process, or there's things in our life that we might, maybe we thought we'd achieve by now, or there's things that we

1:22.7

desperately want to achieve so that we won't live a life full of regrets.

1:26.2

Or there are people listening right now

1:27.9

who may be noticing that their anxiety or their depression is getting a tiny bit more, let's call it

1:32.8

amplified the longer that it's left untreated. You owe it to yourself or those around you,

1:36.6

to your spouse, your kids, and actually I guess really the most important person is you to at the

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