Eating Chocolate - An Emotional Control Strategy or a Way to Stay Present?

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Exercise, meditation, prayer, and eating good food all sound like wonderful, emotional-baseline-raising activities. But depending on how you're doing them, they could also be a way to eliminate unwanted thoughts and feelings. Tony looks at "creative helplessness" and "emotional control strategies" and how they play into our search for happiness. Tony references Russ Harris' book ACT Made Simple https://amzn.to/3l3NeDJAnd follow Tony on the Virtual Couch YouTube channel to see a sneak preview of his upcoming podcast "Murder on the Couch," where True Crime meets therapy, co-hosted with his daughter Sydney. You can watch a pre-release clip here https://youtu.be/-RkRq8SrQy0 (https://youtu.be/-RkRq8SrQy0)Subscribe to Tony's latest podcast, "Waking Up to Narcissism Q&A - Premium Podcast," on the Apple Podcast App. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-to-narcissism-q-a/id1667287384 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-to-narcissism-q-a/id1667287384)Go to http://tonyoverbay.com/workshop (http://tonyoverbay.com/workshop) to sign up for Tony's "Magnetize Your Marriage" virtual workshop. The cost is only $19, and you'll learn the top 3 things you can do NOW to create a Magnetic Marriage. You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program, The Path Back, by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com (http://pathbackrecovery.com/) And visit http://tonyoverbay.com (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 (https://descript.com/?lmref=bSWcEQ)

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0:00.0	Hey, oh, oh, come on and take a seat on the virtual couch.
0:21.6	Hey everybody.
0:22.5	Welcome to episode 359 of the virtual couch.
0:26.0	I'm your host, Tony Overbay.
0:27.5	I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified mindful habit coach, writer, speaker, husband, father of four, and creator of the path back, which is an online pornography recovery program that is helping
0:38.2	people turn away from turning to pornography as an unhealthy coping mechanism.
0:43.4	And funny thing on the topic of pornography, which seems like a bit of an oxymoron,
0:48.7	I received some texts, a couple from people that are very close to me, who asked me
0:52.9	about a post on my social media this
0:55.5	week that there was a mention of cornography that is as in corn c-or-n or people talking about their
1:03.1	corn addiction now this is not a situation where people are literally addicted to the delicious
1:10.3	yellow i don't even know if it's a
1:12.4	vegetable or a fruit, but it turns into popcorn, which is one of my favorite things in the
1:16.7	entire world, because I guess technically I could fall into a bit of a corn addiction if that is the
1:21.2	case, but we're not talking about that type of corn. Apparently, if you use the word porn or
1:26.9	pornography on certain social media platforms, then that will be the end of you. Apparently, if you use the word porn or pornography on certain social media platforms,
1:29.5	then that will be the end of you. Your account will be banned and you will be sent to outer
1:34.2	darkness for time and all eternity. So in order to get around that and to try to help people,
1:39.0	because I really feel like we need to be having better discussions around the challenges of people that are turning
1:45.4	to pornography as an unhealthy coping mechanism, you have to refer to it as corn, corn addiction.
1:52.1	And the co-author of my book, he's a porn addict now what?
1:54.8	An expert and a former addict answer your questions, Joshua Shea has a pretty big following,
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