Using Tiny Habits To Bring About Large Changes with Abby Green

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

4.9 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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With the New Year soon approaching, it’s time to talk habits! Inevitably millions of people will start to look at creating new habits, and breaking old ones and guest Abby Green has done all the research on habit formation so you don’t have to! Abby is a certified Tiny Habit’s instructor, successful life coach, wife, and mother of four vibrant children so she understands that sometimes you only have a short amount of time to work with when it comes to self-care, and especially the formation of new habits. Abby and Tony discuss in detail BJ Fogg’s breakthrough book “Tiny Habit’s” and Abby talks about the formula that BJ has developed over years of research that bring results. Abby mentions her “Health Holiday Habits Challenge” during the episode and she’s offering a discount on her program of habit change which begins on December 7th. Go to http://simplythrivenow.com for more information. - Sign up at http://tonyoverbay.com to learn more about Tony’s upcoming “Magnetic Marriage” program! - This episode of The Virtual Couch is sponsored by 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 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 you will receive 10% off your first month of services. Please make your own mental health a priority, http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight.-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-Please subscribe to The Virtual Couch YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVirtualCouchPodcast/ and sign up at http://tonyoverbay.com to learn more about Tony’s upcoming “Magnetic Marriage” program!-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/ 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/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. 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 And visit http://tonyoverbay.com and sign up to receive updates on upcoming programs, and podcasts. -Tony also mentioned his appearances this week on two podcasts, The Betrayed, The Addicted and The Expert with hosts Ashlyn and Coby, and Virtual Couch former guest Brannon Patrick where we discuss narcissism in detail and the challenges people face in relationships with narcissistic individuals https://www.betrayedaddictedexpert.com/podcast/episode/25d19bf1/is-narcissism-nature-or-nurture and The Millennial Member Podcast hosted by Emily Ensign where we discuss the topic of pornography, what helps with recovery, and what doesn’t https://www.buzzsprout.com/1072564/6209683-tony-overbay-pornography-and-recovery

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0:00.0	Hey, coming up on today's episode of the virtual couch, we're talking all things habit-related.
0:04.8	What is a habit? How do you create them? What's the pop psychology myths around habit change?
0:10.1	And my guest, Abby Green knows her stuff. She summarizes and shares the secrets of all the latest
0:14.9	books about habit change, including the power of habit, atomic habits, and even tiny habits.
0:20.2	We're going to dig deep into BJ Fogg's amazing book, Tiny Habits, all that, and so much more coming up on today's episode of The Virtual Couch.
0:30.7	Hey, everybody, welcome to a special bonus episode of The Virtual Couch, episode 236, the second episode this week.
0:42.1	And I am still your host, Tony Over Bay.
0:43.8	I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified mindful habit coach, writer, speaker, husband, father, four,
0:49.1	ultramarathon, runner, and creator of the Pathback.
0:52.3	The Pathback is an online pornography recovery program that is
0:55.6	helping people reclaim their lives from the mind-numbing, soul-sucking, time-wasting habits of turning
1:00.1	to pornography as a coping mechanism. And trust me, it can be done in a strength-based, hold the shame,
1:04.7	become the person you always wanted to be kind of way. So head over to pathback recovery.com.
1:09.3	You'll find a short e-book that describes five myths
1:12.1	that people often fall prey to when trying to put pornography behind them once and for all.
1:16.8	And the Pathback now includes weekly group calls. Had another one last night. They're amazing.
1:21.2	They're growing in size and any question is up for discussion. And I start with a little bit,
1:27.3	maybe a few minutes on what is the
1:29.6	latest in the world of addiction or recovery or impulse or compulsion or what I've seen in
1:33.6	my office and just developing a really nice group there. And you, it's part of the Pathback
1:38.7	program and I would love for you to even try the calls out. So if you would like to do that
1:43.3	there every Wednesday and you can get on board by reaching out to me at contact at PathbackRecovery.com or go to Tonyoverbay.com and just hit me through the contact link there and tell me that you're interested in getting a code to be a participant in one of those calls. And while you're there at Tonyoverbay.com, go ahead and sign up to find
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