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The Virtual Couch

The Quarantine Kids Are Back! Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Life In Quarantine Featuring Tony’s Family!

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tony welcomes his wife (that’s right, for the first time in 198 episodes Tony’s wife Wendy joins the podcast!) along with his oldest daughter Alexa, 22, and her husband Mitch, 23, his daughter Mackie, who has appeared two previous times on The Virtual Couch, along with nephew Connor to discuss life in quarantine, online schooling, and what the effects of a lack of schedule look like in the areas of sleep, food, and motivation. If any of you are feeling like you’re alone either as the person in quarantine or wondering if the way your family is acting is “normal” during this unprecedented time, this episode may just have your answers.- Alexa Lovell, 22, is in her junior year at BYU-Idaho and is studying Diagnostic Medical Sonography and she currently works as a certified lash technician in Idaho, she can be reached to book appointments through her Instagram account @lovell.lashes. Her husband, Mitch Lovell is beginning his senior year at BYU-Idaho studying Biomedical Science and has his sights set on dental school. Alex and Mitch have been married for one year this week! McKinley (Mackie) Overbay, 20, is a sophomore at BYU-Idaho and is almost a year into cosmetology school at Paul Mitchell in Rexburg, ID (IG @beautybymackie) and nephew Connor Furgeson, 25, is a senior at BYU majoring in neuroscience. Wendy Overbay and Tony have been married for 29 years and have 2 other children, Sydney, 18, a senior in high school, and Jake, 16, currently a high school sophomore.- 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 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.

Transcript

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0:00.6

Coming up on today's episode of the virtual couch, everything you ever wanted to know about life in quarantine featuring my family.

0:07.7

Today, we discuss life in quarantine, online schooling, what the effects of a lack of schedule look like in the areas of sleep, food, motivation.

0:15.5

If any of you are feeling like you're alone, either as the person in quarantine, are wondering if the way your family's acting is, quote, normal during this unprecedented time, this episode promises to

0:25.8

have your answers. And don't tell anybody now, but my wife Wendy makes her podcasting debut. That

0:31.8

and plenty more coming up on this episode of The Virtual Couch.

0:44.3

Music on this episode of The Virtual Couch. Hey, everybody, this is a very quick advertisement, and I know I'm a podcast listener.

0:49.0

You can hit the little fast forward button probably on your podcast player, 15 seconds, 30 seconds.

0:55.4

But bear with me. I'll try to make this quick as a therapist myself i obviously recommend that everybody give therapy a try

1:00.2

because when people ask me do i need therapy i don't even have to talk to you the answer is yes i

1:05.4

need therapy everyone could use a sounding board everybody could use an objective third party. Everybody could kind of

1:12.9

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

1:16.6

things that they feel like they should be able to get over or shouldn't be worrying about?

1:22.0

Shouldn't, shouldn't. Nobody wants to be should on. But we're all hanging on to things that would be

1:26.2

helpful to process. And there's even things that we thought we'd achieve by on to things that would be helpful to process. And there's even things

1:28.7

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

1:33.0

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

1:38.0

that their anxiety or their depression might even getting a tiny bit worse, especially with what's

1:42.3

going on in the world right now, let's get to

1:45.3

it. Let's not leave that untreated. You owe it to yourself, to those around you, your spouse, your

1:49.2

kids. You, I mean, you're the, you owe it to you at the very least to give therapy a try. So if you're

1:54.8

nervous about finding the right fit, if you're worried about bumping into somebody in the

1:58.1

therapy waiting room, if you have any worries about therapy, might I recommend that you go immediately to betterhelp.com slash virtual couch.

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