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The Virtual Couch

Episode 200! Tony Tells All...Baseball, Boating Accidents and the Tiger King!

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the 200th episode of The Virtual Couch Podcast, former guest and author Joshua Shea (Tony's co-author of "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions) interviews Virtual Couch podcast host Tony Overbay. Tony shares about a tragic accident shortly after high school graduation that derailed a promising college athletic career, his 10 years in the computer software industry, what led him to change careers to therapy, and how that change has impacted his role as a father and husband. Tony talks about many of the things he’s learned over the years as a therapist that has changed his life for the better, and he gives advice on what he feels is holding most people back from achieving their dreams. - Tony's FREE parenting course, “Tips For Parenting Positively Even In the Not So Positive Times” is available NOW. Just go to http://tonyoverbay.com/courses/ (http://tonyoverbay.com/courses/) and sign up today. This course will help you understand why it can be so difficult to communicate with and understand your children. You’ll learn how to keep your buttons hidden, how to genuinely give praise that will truly build inner wealth in your child, teen, or even in your adult children, and you’ll learn how to move from being “the punisher” to being someone your children will want to go to when they need help. And Tony is so confident that this program will work, that he's offering a money-back guarantee! - This episode of The Virtual Couch is sponsored by http://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 (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 (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 (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight. - 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 (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 (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.com (http://pathbackrecovery.com) And visit http://tonyoverbay.com (http://tonyoverbay.com) and sign up to receive updates on upcoming programs, and podcasts.

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0:00.0

Coming up on today's very special 200th episode of the virtual couch, the guest is none other than

0:06.6

yours truly me, Tony Overbay, and yes, I just broke the vow made long, long ago to never talk

0:12.5

in the third person, but former podcast guest and co-author of my bestselling book, he's a porn addict

0:17.8

now what, an expert and a former former addict answer your questions in which I play

0:20.9

the role of the expert. Joshua Shea uses his 26 years of journalistic experience and

0:26.3

interviews, Tony, okay, me, on a variety of topics including life before becoming a therapist,

0:31.3

the boating accident that dramatically altered my future, as well as hard-hitting questions

0:35.3

such as whether or not I watched the Tiger King. And if I did,

0:38.5

what was my take? That and plenty more. Coming up on this episode of the virtual couch.

0:43.5

Hey, everybody, this is a very quick advertisement, and I know I'm a podcast listener. You can

0:48.1

hit the little fast-forward button probably on your podcast player, 15 seconds, 30 seconds. But bear

0:53.6

with me. I'll try to make this quick.

0:55.2

As a therapist myself, I obviously recommend that everybody give therapy a try, because when

1:00.3

people ask me, do I need therapy? I don't even have to talk to you. The answer is, yes,

1:04.1

I need therapy. Everyone could use a sounding board. Everybody could use an objective third party.

1:10.7

Everybody could kind of dig deep a

1:12.4

little bit and find out what are things that they've been holding back on. What are the things that they

1:16.0

feel like they should be able to get over or shouldn't be worrying about? Shouldn't, shouldn't. Nobody

1:21.6

wants to be should on. But we're all hanging on to things that would be helpful to process. And there's

1:27.1

even things that we thought we'd achieve by now or things that we really helpful to process. And there's even things that we thought

1:27.9

we'd achieved by now or things that we really want to achieve so that we won't have these regrets

1:32.6

in life. And so if there are people listening right now that might be noticing that their anxiety

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