Welcome to episode 801 with my guest, Taise Gibson. I'm Paul Gilmartin, and if you're new to the podcast, welcome.

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 is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.

I am not a therapist.

Normally, half of the show is, roughly half the show, is an interview with the guest.

And then the other half, every other week, our surveys filled out anonymously online by listeners and I've been taking

a break from those recently I've been struggling a bit with my my mental health and still

kind of in that in that place trying to get some new episodes out where I can thank you for all the kind thoughts and support those of you who've weighed in via email

or Patreon.

I really, really appreciate it.

I slept 16 hours yesterday and last night, which felt really fucking good.

I'd seem to be ping ponged between insomnia and then just all I want to do is be in bed.

But one foot forward at a time.

And it's interesting that we are airing Taise's episode where we talk about,

among other things, negative self-talk and

it's funny after i recorded this this conversation with her i emailed uh brook who um

gives the raw interviews a listen and gives me her her feedback on stuff. And I told her, oh my God, I felt

like I just, I talked about myself too much. I felt, I just felt weird about it afterwards,

like TMI. And Brooke did not feel that way at all so there are no edits in this and i suppose for those

either regular listeners this is kind of an interesting conversation regarding that and that

it was recorded a couple of months ago so this this is I was on the verge, didn't

know it at the time, on the verge of relapsing and watching pornography. And I suppose anybody

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