Do not confuse this with treatment or mental health advice or direction.

Nothing on this podcast is made to supplement or supersede the relationship and direction of your mental health caretakers.

Although David Kozlowski is a licensed marriage and family therapist,

he is not functioning as a certified mental health professional in this environment.

But same applies to any professionals who may appear on the Light the Fight.

And this is, this is Heidi Swap.

And I'm actually coming to you a little bit solo.

Brandon's here.

And so he's going to back me up if things, you know, if I need him.

David, our fearless guiding counselor, he probably won't want me to say that.

I don't know if I'm allowed to say that.

Is ill.

And so he has asked me to just,

you know, the show must go on, I think. And so, um, so I got this, I got this text from him just a few hours ago. And he said, you know, I really think that you should just go by yourself.

You're going to be fine. And I was like, oh, no. What am I going to say? What do I have to say

that will add value? And then I don't want anybody to think I'm counseling them. You know,

I'm not going to, I'm not going to try to, like, take that role of David. And so not,

no jokes and no lie, I've kind of really had a prayer in my heart for the last few hours,

as I've really been thinking about what I wanted to share tonight.

And, you know, interestingly enough, I had, like, a whole outline prepared for what Dave and I were going to talk about tonight.

Actually, two different outlines, depending on what we're going to be feeling.

And those are both just completely out the window.

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