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Welcome to episode 785 with my guest, Zach Brittle.

If you're new to the podcast, I hope you find this to be a place

for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas,

and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. And this show's not meant to be a

substitute for professional

mental counseling. I am not a therapist, but Zach is a therapist. And we're going to talk about a

bunch of a bunch of really, in my mind, important stuff, not just in marriage, but in getting

our own shit together. Because, I mean, how good of a partnership can we have if we're not working on our stuff?

And we're going to talk about how people grow apart.

We're going to talk about anger, common things that he comes across in counseling couples.

And of course, we have some great surveys filled out by you, the listener.

This is from the struggle in a sentence survey, and this is filled out by a guy who calls himself Izzy.

And about his depression, he writes, when I wake up, my first thought is how long

until I can go back to sleep? Oh my God, I think so many of us, so many of us relate to that one.

This is from the Ask Paul Anything Survey, and this is filled out by our friend, Katarina, who is a member of our Saturday European Zoom group.

And she writes, I'm always fascinated by the, quote, positive experiences with abusers, unquote.

She's referring to one of the questions from the Shaman Secrets Survey. So I'd love to

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