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The Virtual Couch

Why We Care What Other People Think: Unraveling Our Need for Approval and Validation

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

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

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Tony Overbay, LMFT, tackles the timeless question, "Why do we care so much about what others think?" Offering insights on halting the cycle of worrying over others' opinions, Tony emphasiz...

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0:00.0

So not too long ago, I received an email. It was a question and it didn't seem like a very

0:05.3

difficult one on the surface, but I have sat on this question for months and I've had,

0:10.7

have many Google documents up. This Google document has been up for so long because I keep adding

0:16.2

to the concepts. Let me just get to the question. Why do we care so much about what others think?

0:21.5

And isn't it good to care at least a little bit? We're going to talk about that and go into so

0:27.0

many different concepts and thoughts and beliefs around why we do care about what others think and

0:32.4

is a little bit of it good for you. Here's this little sneak preview. It can be. And we're going

0:37.2

to talk about that and so

0:38.0

much more coming up on today's episode of the virtual couch.

0:44.2

Hey, everybody. Welcome to episode 412 of the virtual couch. I'm your host, Tony Overbay. I'm a licensed

0:52.3

marriage and family therapist and a certified

0:54.5

mindful habit coach. But first, I just want to say, as I've been journeying through the world of

0:59.6

therapy over the past 15 plus years, working now with well over a thousand couples, I've been

1:03.5

fortunate enough to develop and road test very cool tools that I know can help change marriages

1:09.6

and relationships for the better.

1:11.5

These aren't just any tools.

1:13.0

They are the result of seeing what real couples actually need.

1:16.0

And my true star pupil, my opus, my very own golden child of the therapeutic tools are my four pillars of a connected conversation.

1:25.6

And I can honestly say, you know, trust me,

1:28.8

these pillars are game changers for communication, but they are definitely not something that we

1:33.8

are born knowing how to do. They aren't part of our factory settings. They're definitely

1:38.4

something that we don't know that we don't even know. But the good news is learning the four

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