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The Virtual Couch

Tips for Tackling Anxiety aka Bless Your Brain's Little Pink Squishy Heart!

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Tony tackles the touchy topic of anxiety and gives tips on what to do when you're feeling anxious. You can watch this interview on YouTube here https://youtu.be/k1pPHfe3wd4 (https://youtu.be/k1pPHfe3wd4) Please subscribe to The Virtual Couch YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVirtualCouchPodcast/ (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVirtualCouchPodcast/) and follow The Virtual Couch on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/virtualcouch/ (https://www.instagram.com/virtualcouch/) 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. http://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 FREE parenting course, “Tips For Parenting Positively Even In the Not So Positive Times” is available NOW. Just go to https://www.tonyoverbay.com/courses-2/ (https://www.tonyoverbay.com/courses-2/)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.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/38mauBoTony 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.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=v95myQ (https://descript.com?lmref=v95myQ)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to episode 250 of the virtual couch. We're going to do things a little bit different today.

0:05.4

While I am still your host, Tony Overbay, and I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, all those wonderful things.

0:10.0

And I'd love for you to go to Tonyoverbay.com and sign up for all kinds of things and find me on Instagram at Virtual Couch.

0:16.8

And even go to BetterHelp.com slash Virtual Couch. get 10% off your first month's online therapy experience,

0:23.9

all those things, but today's podcast is going to be a little bit different. So I get asked to speak a lot.

0:28.9

I absolutely love it. I have always loved it. And I will speak at any, any opportunity that I can

0:33.9

if I can make it work with my schedule. This week alone, I've done a couple of podcast interviews.

0:43.0

I did a mixed faith marriage event. But tonight, I have a presentation on anxiety to a very large women's group, and I may not be exactly as prepared as I wanted to. So I had another podcast

0:48.0

plan for today, but then I thought, okay, I did some additional research on anxiety last night,

0:54.0

got in here to the office nice

0:55.2

and early, did some more this morning. So I am going to prepare it for this very podcast. I thought,

1:00.5

why not? I haven't done a podcast on anxiety in a while. So I will do this podcast today. I will

1:06.0

do the presentation tonight. Then I will release this podcast tomorrow. Little will the group know

1:10.3

tonight that what they heard is actually a repeat of what I'm

1:14.0

recording right now until I release this episode tomorrow, the day after the presentation.

1:18.6

It's genius.

1:19.2

I tell you, foolproof.

1:20.7

And actually, the more I think about it, and I thought about this on my run this morning,

1:24.0

what if I recorded this podcast so that it could be used as a presentation for any

1:27.7

group moving forward? I fired up the webcam. You can find this on YouTube and that's probably

1:33.1

not going to be perfect. I can understand that. So if you are looking for a presentation to give to

1:38.0

your group, fill in the blank of what that group would be on anxiety, I'm going to see if with the right

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