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.

Hey, what's up, everybody?

This is Light the Fight, and I am one of your hosts, David Kozlowski.

Tonight, unfortunately, again, Heidi cannot be with us. I know for all the loyal listeners,

it's just not the same when Heidi's not around. And I'm here, so you're with me, whether you want to be with me or not, you press play.

You're going to get some information that's going to give you just a different way to look at your relationships with your kids.

But tonight you're going to be getting it by, well, through me alone without Heidi.

This is Heidi's go time. So if Heidi, this is Heidi's tax season,

if she was a tax attorney or a CPA or something like that. Holidays, all the craft. So she's got a lot of stuff going on with family and business right now. So I'm going to drive the wheel,

take the wheel of this vehicle and start driving it. But before I get started, I want to give a

big shout out to our official sponsor here at Light

the Fight, teen counseling.com.

Just a couple quick pointers for reminders for some of our newer listeners, teen counseling.com

is an online counseling service that's specifically for 13 and 19 year olds where you can get

hooked up

licensed professional counselor right away and they'll be communicating through the device that

your kids are usually on anyways. It's called a phone. That's right. Through their smartphone

app, just like a FaceTime situation where you can have your child be counseling with a licensed professional

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