Kick Those Bad Habits to the Curb...and No White Knuckling It!
The Virtual Couch
Tony Overbay LMFT
4.9 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It's time to break some old habits and create some new ones...the good kind! Tony covers Richard Jerome's Realsimple.com article "Yes, You Can Kick That Bad Habit!" https://apple.news/AmpZULFi8QkCRuwgWAWaDQQ Are you "addicted" to your phone? Have you ever found yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram or Facebook thinking "just 3 more seconds and I'll exit," again and again and again? And how many days does it truly take to create a new habit (hint, it's not 21 days!)? Jerome covers how our habits evolved, how to "hack" the habit center of the brain, and why "white-knuckling" addiction doesn't work.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, coming up on today's episode of the virtual couch, we are going to talk about breaking bad |
| 0:04.9 | habits. Yes, you can break that habit from your cell phone to any kind of destructive habits. |
| 0:10.3 | We're going to talk about what creates a habit, what the habit cycle is all about, and how you |
| 0:15.7 | change the reward system in any habit. And you can kind of of what do the kids say these days, hack that |
| 0:23.0 | entire habit system. That and more coming up on today's 220 of the virtual couch. I am your host, Tony Overbay. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified mindful habit coach, writer, speaker, husband, father, for ultramarathon runner and creator of the path back, an online pornography recovery program that is helping people |
| 0:54.7 | like you reclaim their lives from the harmful effects of pornography. If you or anyone that you know |
| 0:59.9 | is trying to put pornography behind you once and for all, and trust me, it can be done in a |
| 1:03.8 | strength-based, hope-filled, become the person you always want to be way. Then please head to |
| 1:08.7 | pathback recovery.com. And there you will find a short ebook |
| 1:12.0 | that describes five common mistakes that people make when trying to overcome pornography once |
| 1:16.8 | and for all again. That's pathback recovery.com. And fun, exciting things continue. Tonyoverbay.com, |
| 1:24.6 | the website has been updated. So I would love if you would head over there, |
| 1:28.6 | my free parenting program, parenting positively even in the not-so-positive of times, is available |
| 1:34.1 | there for free, and it will continue to be there for free. So please go and find out how to be a better |
| 1:39.8 | parent, even as you are continuing to, for many many shelter in place, your kids are around you |
| 1:45.5 | even more bless their little hearts. This is a free parenting program that teaches you how to |
| 1:51.0 | parent better. So again, Pathback, PathbackRecovery.com is a wonderful place to go. That is the |
| 1:57.0 | pornography recovery website. But head over to tonyoverbay.com. There you will find the |
| 2:01.5 | parenting, the free parenting workshop, parenting program. And I would highly encourage you to |
| 2:06.6 | sign up for my newsletter because I've been alluding to this. It is now being filmed, |
| 2:11.7 | and that is a magnetic marriage program where we are going to talk about how to have a more magnetic marriage. |
| 2:18.7 | So go to Tonyoverbay.com. |
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