Want to work with me one on one? Click here to apply for tinnitus coaching! (I am still offering free 30-minute consultation calls to everyone who applies.) Last week I had the opportunity to participate in a webinar with Dr. Edmund Farrar, CEO and co-founder of the Oto, the tinnitus therapy app. The first half of the webinar was an …
John’s Tinnitus Journey: A Habituation Success Story (GUEST POST)
Hey everyone, Glenn here! As many of you know, for the last 8 years, I’ve worked 1-on-1 with tinnitus sufferers all over the world as a tinnitus coach. My coaching program is a hands-on, highly personalized approach to habituation where I am able to adapt all of my strategies and techniques to the sound of a person’s tinnitus and the …
Two Experts Discuss Tinnitus, Coping Techniques, and Long Term Habituation Strategies (Treble Health Podcast)
I recently had the opportunity to have another great discussion with audiologist and tinnitus expert Dr. Ben Thompson, Au.D – founder of Treblehealth.com and host of the Treble Health Podcast and Youtube channel. In this wide ranging conversation, we touched on many important topics related to tinnitus coping, habituation, and my work as a tinnitus coach. We had a great …
Tinnitus, Powerlessness, and PTSD: Framing Tinnitus as an Acute Stress Disorder
If you ask a hundred tinnitus sufferers to explain how the ringing in their ears affects their quality of life, you will get a hundred different answers, but you could easily conclude that the root of the problem – emotionally speaking – is anxiety. The sound of loud tinnitus can cause a very intense fight-or-flight stress response that never fully …
TABS: A New Tinnitus Coping and Habituation Technique
Today, I am excited to share a powerful new tinnitus coping and habituation technique that I have been developing for a long time now. It’s called the TABS technique, which is short for Tinnitus Awareness Body Scan. It’s a coping exercise that combines a breathing technique with brief moments of focused tinnitus awareness, a progressive muscle relaxation routine, and an …
Tinnitus Challenges, Obstacles & Hope (Outring Tinnitus Podcast Interview)
(Click here to listen in Apple Podcasts – Click here to listen in Sound Cloud – Click here to listen in Spotify) I recently had the opportunity to record a podcast conversation with Frieder Kühne, a fellow tinnitus coach who resides in Germany, founder of Outring Tinnitus, and host of the Outring Tinnitus podcast. We had a great discussion about …
Preventative Coping: A Strategy to Prevent Tinnitus Spikes
I talk a lot about habituation because I believe it’s our best option for achieving long term relief from tinnitus. But the habituation process takes time, regardless of how you approach it. And it’s important to have effective coping tools and coping strategies to improve quality of life in the short term. So today, I wanted to talk about a …
A FREE Tool to Help You Build Healthy Habits that Improve Tinnitus
Living with Tinnitus isn’t easy. And it’s not just the sound. The lack of understanding, confusion, and misinformation is enough to make you miserable all on its own. Even just trying to figure out what causes your tinnitus to spike can be completely overwhelming. Tinnitus is a complicated health problem with no cure, not nearly enough awareness, and even fewer effective …
How to Stop Obsessing, Focusing On and Ruminating Over Tinnitus
Have you ever noticed that when you’re in pain, you feel compelled to keep messing with your injury to see how much it hurts? For some reason, we tend to focus on pain with an intensity rarely seen elsewhere in our lives. And it’s not just physical pain. We do this with health problems, like tinnitus, too. In fact, one …
Tinnitus Habituation: Why Spikes and Setbacks are Part of the Process
I talk a lot about habituation because I believe that it’s our best hope to find lasting relief from tinnitus. It’s not a cure, but it’s entirely possible to get to this place where it stops bothering us, a place where your brain can tune it out like it does all other meaningless background noise. I’ve also talked a lot …
