Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers.

This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general,

and some of those could be sensitive for you.

I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations.

So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it

out check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay

but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a

psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.

This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help.

So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All Right.

Hello, friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 100.

Woo! I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California and the author of

the Hardcore Self-help book series.

And yeah man, this is episode 100.

I'm super, super, super excited about that.

I don't know, it feels special to me. It's it's something you know 100 is kind of an arbitrary

milestone but it that's a lot of episodes you know I've been doing this mostly week to

week with just a few weeks off here and there. And I'm really proud of this project.

This is something that I'm really glad that I started.

I kind of had the idea to start some sort of project like this,

be it a podcast or a video series or whatever for a long time and I never did it there's a lot of things that really were fake roadblocks that held me back like originally I well, maybe I need a co-host, you know,

someone to kind of bounce off of and maybe I need another stick, like it can't just be self-help questions,

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