We're doing another live workshop, and this time I want you to shape it. 👨‍🦰👩 No preset topics from me. Just tell me what you want to dig into. Whatever is on your mind about tinnitus right now, comment below and I'll build the workshop around what you need most. Here's what I love about these live sessions: the real magic often happens in the conversation. When you show up with a real question, and someone else nods because they've felt the exact same thing, that's when things start to shift. You realize you're not figuring this out alone. Timing will be the usual, around 9am Pacific (noon Eastern). If that time doesn't work for you, let me know and we can look at moving it. ⌚ And as always, once we cover the main topic we'll open the floor for general questions and discussion, so you can connect and ask anything else on your mind. 🤔 So tell me: - Will you join us? - What do you want to cover this Saturday? Comment below 👇 Yours truly, 🙏 (your tinnitus) Guy. Event link: https://www.skool.com/tinnitus/calendar?eid=f86f3a36c6594d99bf52eb0b4c23d99c

I've been having difficulty waking up during the nigh because of T. Last night I decided/told myself I was going to have a good night's sleep. Surprisingly I did! I slept for 8.75 hours which I haven't done in a longgggg time. I did not wake up until 5am but went quickly back to sleep. I'll take it!

Instead, ask yourself: ✨ "How fully did I live today?" Tinnitus recovery isn't just about quieter days. It's about laughing with your family. Finishing a work project. Going for a walk. Watching your favorite show. Meeting a friend for coffee. Doing the things you thought tinnitus had taken away. The more your life becomes the focus, the less tinnitus has to be. Your brain learns from where you place your attention not just from the volume of the sound. Today, don't measure your progress by your tinnitus. Measure it by the life you lived despite it. What's one thing you did today that made you feel like you again?

Hi everyone, I wanted to share an update on my habituation journey and ask the coaches and anyone further along a few questions. As some of you might know from my previous posts, I’ve moved past the 24/7 distress mode, but the tinnitus still demands a huge part of my attention. However, I recently had a really good phase: two weeks where the noise was mostly pushed into the background and felt very bearable. Right now, I’m in my second week of vacation. Unfortunately, the weather has been pretty bad, meaning I’ve spent a lot of time indoors. Because of this, the last few days have been much more exhausting. I’m noticing the tinnitus constantly, and honestly, I feel quite bothered and a bit down because of it. Despite these ups and downs, I haven't given up. I’ve managed to get through this challenging period without using any masking. If I can hold out until Sunday, it will be four full weeks (28 days!) without masking. Personally, I feel like this is a huge milestone for me. For me, actively choosing not to mask is my way of trying to practice acceptance and learning to embrace the sound. Looking at my journey as a whole—with these changing phases—I’d love to get some perspective from the coaches and the community: 1. Is this experience typical for the habituation journey? Do others also experience this pattern where the tinnitus recedes, then becomes louder and more noticeable again, yet you still find the strength not to resort to masking? 2. Is this what progress actually looks like? Is it a normal part of the process to hear the tinnitus more or less constantly, to feel that your days are somewhat dampened by it, but to still successfully carry out your daily activities—like reading, checking emails, or playing Xbox—without fleeing to masking? 3. Will it continue to get better? I am consciously showing my brain that the tinnitus can be present without being the center of everything, but it is exhausting. Will this eventually lead to the next level where the attention shifts more permanently?

Hey awesome people! Are you ready for my normal level of content again? 😄 I’m now beginning week 2 here in Peru for our gap year overseas, and we’re finally starting to settle down a little. That means my content generation should gradually start increasing again, videos too, and I want to begin with a topic that keeps coming up everywhere: In live workshops. In coaching sessions. In online tinnitus discussions. And in the private messages I receive from people who are trying very hard to make progress. The topic is: tinnitus fluctuation. The good day / bad day cycle. This is one of the most frustrating parts of tinnitus recovery. Because a good day gives you hope. The sound may still be there, but you feel more in control. You focus better. You feel calmer. You sleep a little easier. You start thinking: “Maybe I’m finally turning a corner.” Then the next day, the sound is louder again. Or your nervous system feels more reactive. Or you wake up tired. Or you start checking the sound before your feet even touch the floor. And suddenly, it feels like all your progress disappeared. This is where so many people get pulled back into the tinnitus loop. They start asking: “Why is it louder today?” “What did I do wrong?” “Did I lose my progress?” “Am I back to square one?” “What if this never settles?” But here is the important part: A bad tinnitus day is not a reset. Fluctuation does NOT mean failure. Tinnitus progress is rarely a straight line. It often looks more like this: Good day. Hard day. Better day. Spike day. Calmer day. Frustrating day. Another good day. Before habituation becomes more stable, that back-and-forth can feel emotionally exhausting. But the fluctuation itself is not usually what destroys progress. 👉 What creates the setback is how we RESPOND to the fluctuation. When the sound changes, the brain often wants to react immediately. Monitor it. Compare it to yesterday. Search for the reason. Look for reassurance. Test it in different rooms.