It took about a year but my Tinnitus is behind me now and when it’s there no big deal🙌 And I know with every cell in my Body and our community ( you & me ) and Thank you So Very to Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for giving Guy the gift of this Platform to educate us on Tinnitus!!! To help us during our lowest point in life … No one really understands it unless you have it!!! And you’ll all get there I truly believe in that. So we can all say one day I’M HABITUATED and LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL AGAIN 🤜🤛🫶 GOD BLESS OUR COMMUNITY 🙏

Hey awesome people, Just a quick note from me that I'm in the middle of packing, moving, and total chaos today and tomorrow, then flying out on Friday at 4am... 😳 My life should calm down and be normal again hopefully by Monday. 🙏🤞😊 Second, I just saw this post on LinkedIn and had to share it with you. So true! Despite challenges we all face, we need to keep this in mind. 💙 Sorry for the chaotic post this morning..... (Your Tinnitus) Guy.

For everyone who missed the community event this past Saturday’s, we covered an important tinnitus recovery topic: The difference between coping, control, and habituation. 🤔 This distinction matters because many people are using tools, trying hard, and doing “the right things” — but still feel stuck. A simple way to think about it: 🔷 Coping helps you get through a difficult moment. Examples: breathing, sound therapy, relaxation, grounding, or a spike protocol. 🔷 Control can help or hurt. Helpful control means influencing your response, attention, nervous system, and behavior. Unhelpful control means checking the sound, monitoring every change, chasing certainty, or trying to prevent every spike. 🔷 Habituation is when tinnitus stops feeling like the center of your life. Not necessarily because you never hear it — but because it no longer creates the same emotional reaction, fear, or urgency. The key takeaway: The goal is not to become better at fighting tinnitus every day. The goal is to help your brain stop treating tinnitus as so important. I created a short version of this idea here: [https://youtube.com/shorts/UT_j_9NLU1U] (I've also attached a PDF version below.) Question for you: Where do you feel you are right now? 1. Mostly coping 2. Trying to control tinnitus 3. Moving toward habituation 4. Not sure yet Please comment below. Let's help each other move forward. 🙏💙

Does your tinnitus feel manageable in the morning… but then start taking over by mid-afternoon? I call this the 3 PM tinnitus crash. The day starts relatively manageable. Then by mid-afternoon, the tinnitus feels louder, sharper, more intrusive, or much harder to ignore. In other words, the "crash" often shows up as a tinnitus spike. And for many, this is one of the most frustrating tinnitus patterns. You answer emails. You sit in meetings. You make decisions. You solve problems. You focus through background stress. You try to ignore tinnitus while still performing. Then around 2 or 3 PM, something shifts. And suddenly, you are not just dealing with tinnitus. You are dealing with tinnitus while still needing to think clearly, communicate well, and finish the workday. But here is the important part: The afternoon spike does not mean your tinnitus is getting worse. Sometimes it means your nervous system is running out of capacity. By mid-afternoon, several things may have accumulated: mental fatigue stress screen time neck and jaw tension decision fatigue and repeated checking of the tinnitus When your brain is tired, it has fewer resources available to filter tinnitus into the background. So the tinnitus gets promoted from "something I notice" to "the main thing I can't escape." This is where many people accidentally make the pattern stronger. They check it. Compare it to the morning. Try to figure out why it changed. Search for reassurance. Or try to force it away. But that can teach the brain: "This sound is important. Keep monitoring it." A better approach is to have a simple reset routine before the crash fully takes over. That is why I often teach a tinnitus spike protocol. The goal is not to fight the sound. The goal is to help your brain and nervous system respond differently. A good spike protocol includes three parts: 1. Relax the body and reduce the nervous system alarm. 2. Use CBT-style reframing so the spike does not become a catastrophe story.

Quick reminder of this coming weekend event, and this one will be more special... We'll cover: 1. Your chosen topic (see original post) 2. Q&A and open discussion 3. I'll share a personal BIG change I'm going through right now - It has affected my usual pace of content creation during June, so I want to explain what's happening and hopefully we can all be excited together. 😁 Here's the post with more details, where you can vote on the topic we'll cover: https://www.skool.com/tinnitus/im-planning-another-live-tinnitus-community-event-on-saturday-june-27th-and-id-love-your-input And here is the link to the event itself in the community calendar: https://www.skool.com/tinnitus/calendar?eid=e46e0bf9d7bd43f399784d9474dfe267 Hope to see many of you on Saturday! Guy.