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Welcome to episode 647 with my return cast Rebecca D. We're going to talk about how it's going with her cut in contact with her mom.

Let's get first things out of the way. My name is Paul Gilmarten. There's a man.

And this happy hour plays for honesty.

But everything in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday.

Compulsive negative thinking the show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. I am not a therapist.

But I am a hockey player and I'm back to playing hockey after the shoulder surgery.

My God, it feels so good. It feels so fucking good.

I should probably paint this picture for you guys. I haven't showered in probably a day and a half.

I probably don't smell that great. And it's June and I'm wearing maybe the thickest hiking socks known to man. I don't know why I'm cold.

But I'm cold. And why am I mentioning all this? Because if for some reason I bail in the middle of this show, I'm ready to climb Mount Everest with my hiking socks.

And that's a tip I thought you guys might like is whenever you're going into a situation that's sketchy.

We're hiking socks.

Things go bad. Somebody says something you don't like. Boom. You're at the summit of K2 isolating and you've accomplished some.

And you.

And you.

You know what? That that was karma for thinking that a bit that lame was going to be funny. It was karma that the gods of speech came in and threw a pitch fork into my tongue.

Let's read some surveys. This is from the Ask Paul Anything survey. And this is from a woman who calls herself not sure what I went by last time.

And she writes, I'm sorry if my survey answers a while back involving animals was too morbid. She's referring to, I believe, somebody filled out a survey or yet somebody has the question.

Are there ever things that are too heavy that you don't read on the podcast? And I said, yeah, occasionally there are. And sometimes is things that I avoid are people talk about harming animals.

And what I specifically was talking about was like, you know, I've got to hate even using the word but like torturing them or killing them. And this woman writes, my abusers used animals to perform the abuse. And while I know it wasn't the fault of the animal that they were also being abused, I've always been shut down and made to feel as though I was an abuser.

I was just a child and I feel as though I will never truly be heard because of it. I'm sorry.

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