Exploring a Better Way to Think About Your Thoughts

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

4.9 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Tony shares his thoughts on how to think better about how you think. You think the thoughts you do because you're the only version of you ever to walk the planet...so you think thoughts and feel feelings because, well, you do! You also need to stop telling yourself to stop thinking...don't think about a green giraffe wearing yellow rain boots right now! And finally, he reveals why it can be detrimental to believe that when you think A, you just need to think B. Get access to Tony's presentation from Monica Tanner's "Secrets of Happily Ever After" summit, which brings 32 marriage therapists and life/relationship coaches together to provide a wealth of tips to strengthen your marriage. You can sign up for the summit for free using the following link: https://tonyoverbay--onthebrighterside.thrivecart.com/shea-summit-accelerator/ If you are interested in being coached in Tony's upcoming "Magnetic Marriage Podcast," please email him for more information. You will receive free marriage coaching and remain anonymous when the episode airs. Go to 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 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	Hey, oh, oh, come on and take a seat on the virtual couch. Hey, everybody, welcome to episode 340 of the virtual couch. I'm your host, Tony Overbay. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. And I am going to speed through the business side of this podcast and get right to the topic because I'm kind of excited just to go on a little bit of a ramble today. I was going to call it a rant, but it's not rant has a negative connotation. And this is just something I'm really fascinated by of what we
0:41.6	do with thoughts and some of the things that I think that we do that are maybe not the most
0:46.0	helpful when it comes to dealing with the thoughts that we have because we have so many thoughts
0:49.9	all day long. So from a business standpoint, I would love if you would go to the show notes. And last
0:56.7	week I had Monica Tanner on. And we talked about a summit called Secrets of Happily Ever After,
1:03.3	where there's me, there's Jennifer Finless and Fife, there's about 30 other marriage
1:07.2	therapists and coaches. And we are providing a lot of information. And it is free and go to the link
1:13.7	that's in my, go to the link that's in the show notes or on my Instagram at virtual couch or on
1:20.3	Facebook at Tony Overbay licensed marriage and family therapist. And just click on that link and you can
1:25.0	sign up and get all of this wonderful data and information free. And go tonyoverbay.com slash workshop there's a $19 hour and a half marriage workshop that i am very happy with i was going to say very proud of and for some reason that sounded very arrogant but i'm going to stand in that healthy ego and say that i really do feel like there's a lot of good information there and if you you don't like the information to shoot me a note, and I'll refund that $19.
1:47.1	And if you are interested in doing some couples coaching and it is completely anonymous, then
1:53.1	you can reach out to info at tonyoverbay.com and start to look at being on my magnetic marriage
1:59.1	podcast, which is going to be a paid subscription-based
2:02.7	podcast, which will be well under the cost of one therapy session for a full year's access.
2:07.4	There are a lot of episodes I've already recorded, and it is just going to be a phenomenal
2:11.8	thing that I'm excited to share, where if you've never been to couples therapy or done
2:15.8	couples coaching or wonder what that looks like,
2:18.1	you're going to see it in action. And it's a really exciting or beautiful process that I've already,
2:23.7	I feel like I've talked to so many couples and we've hit on so many different issues. And go to
2:28.0	pathback recovery.com. There's my online pornography recovery program. So let's get to today's
2:33.2	episode. I want to tell you a story.
2:36.3	So I was sitting in a church Sunday school class a couple of days ago and the topic of change
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