Teaching Our Kids (and our inner-child) Emotional Intelligence
The Virtual Couch
Tony Overbay LMFT
4.9 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Childhood abandonment and neglect issues can manifest in seemingly unrelated ways in adulthood. In this episode, Tony helps you identify how they show up and how you can help your kids become more emotionally intelligent and resilient. Tony's muse today is an article by Jonice Webb, a licensed psychologist and author of two books, Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect https://amzn.to/3GewB03 and Running On Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents, and Your Children https://amzn.to/3m9fw0B He discusses the impact of emotional abandonment and neglect on your children and yourself. Why Emotional Neglect Can Feel Like Abandonment by Jonice Webb Ph.D. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/childhood-emotional-neglect/202303/why-emotional-neglect-can-feel-like-abandonment
Tony also references the article "Attachment Woes Between Anxious and Avoidant Partners" by Darlene Lancer, JD, LMFT from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/toxic-relationships/202008/attachment-woes-between-anxious-and-avoidant-partners
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, oh, oh, come on and take a seat on the virtual couch. |
| 0:21.9 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:22.5 | Welcome to episode 370 of the virtual couch. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm your host, Tony Overbay. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. |
| 0:30.2 | And just go to the show notes. |
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| 0:49.5 | and TikTok. We're getting content out there in hopes of helping people. And I welcome your |
| 0:53.7 | feedback and your feedback and your |
| 0:54.4 | questions and your show ideas. And if you're interested in having me come speak or you name it, |
| 0:59.0 | just reach out at contact at tonyoverbay.com. So let's go on a little bit of a train of thought |
| 1:05.4 | that leads to today's topic, which I am very excited to talk about because it has to do with |
| 1:09.7 | everything from being |
| 1:11.3 | a parent to parenting, to how to teach your kids' empathy and emotional resilience, to even |
| 1:17.2 | maybe doing a little bit of healing that inner child. So from time to time, I'll be interviewed |
| 1:22.3 | by somebody as part of a psychological evaluation or a profile for a client or clients that I've been working with |
| 1:29.3 | for things like, I don't know, everything from child custody arrangements, that sort of thing. |
| 1:33.0 | And I don't actually do the psych evaluations. |
| 1:35.5 | That's reserved for the likes of a clinical psychologist. |
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