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 podcast.

Thank you so much for joining us with another... Hey, all you light the fighters out there.

Thank you so much for joining us with another episode of Light the Fight.

Today, Heidi is still out of town, and so unfortunately she will not be joining us.

And I, unfortunately, still have a man cold.

Apparently I got a different variance of the man cold or man virus, whatever I have. I thought it's feeling better, but now I'm feeling sick again. In fact,

I'm feeling really sicker at the moment. So this is going to be a shorter episode, but I am excited

to do this episode because I chose a topic from one of our old podcasts called assertive

vulnerability versus victim vulnerability.

And I'm going to take a deeper dive and give you guys some new thoughts and feelings upon

that because it's been a topic that's come up in a lot of my discussions recently in my

private practice and just general questions people have asked me. So we'll be going over that

in just a moment. But before I do that, I want to take less than 60 seconds to tell you how you can support the podcast if you feel that the podcast is worth

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