I think we've had a lot of conditioning, a lot, a lot of conditioning to be hard on ourselves,

especially about stuff that we care about, like training. I mean, if you're listening to this

podcast, you care a lot about training, probably more than is wise. It's definitely true for myself.

And when we care a lot, we tend to be harder on ourselves. And the hardest organism in the world

to use positive reinforcement techniques on

is ourselves.

Hey there, fellow training nerds. You're listening to Drinking from the Toilet. And I'm Hannah Branigan,

teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book, Awesome Obedience, and its companion,

Awesome Obedience, The Field Guide, both of which you can pick up right now from clickertraining.com.

And I have an update for you. I also want to let you know that at the end of this month, which I think is October, it runs together,

we'll be opening up enrollment for my online mentorship group, Zero to CD. So if you've been

looking to get started in obedience or looking for some direction in your

training, this might be something that you might want to look into.

It might be a program you're interested in.

We cover all of the skills needed to get into the novice ring from scratch, including

and especially healing.

It's a big focus as well as distractions, ring routine, and getting used to working with reinforcers off your body and

everything. And really, it's total package. Plus, and this is really the most important part,

the support and accountability you need to complete a training project of this size. We're very

support and accountability focused because really training the stuff

isn't as hard as training the stuff, if you know what I'm saying. So you can find out more

information at zero twocd.com or by going to my website. So this week, I want to talk about the

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