Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy. I am your host, Steve Bissom. I'm an author and

mental health counselor. Are you curious about therapy? Do you feel there is a lot of mystery about

therapy? Do you wonder what your therapist is doing and why? The goal of this podcast is to make

therapy and psychology accessible to all by using real language and straight to the point discussions.

This podcast wants to remind you to take care of your mental health, just like you would your physical health.

Therapy should not be intimidating. It should be a great way to better health.

I will demystify what happens in counseling, discuss topics related to mental

health and discussions you can have with your therapist. I also want to introduce psychology

in everyday life, as I feel most of our lives are enmeshed in psychology. I want to introduce

the subtle and not so subtle ways psychology plays a factor in our lives. It will be my own mix of thoughts as well as special guests.

So join me on this discovery of therapy and psychology.

Hi and welcome to Season 2.

Yes, Season 2, Episode 14 of Finding Your Way Through Therapy.

Thank you so much for supporting me through

season one and sending out the well wishes. And I do appreciate it. And I know that I'm looking

forward to season two. There's a lot of exciting stuff. But today I wanted to talk about something

that has been in my office for several years. And it's something that I came up with a few years ago. Obviously,

it's not all original, but it is the seven dirty words in my office. And this is a take on

George Carlin's bit from years ago in regards to the seven dirty words. If you want to look it up,

it's a great bit. But for me, the seven dirty words have to do in one

particular thing, and that is conditionals. So let's start with the seven dirty words. So here they are.

If, but, try, could, should, would, and probably. I use it as dirty words. I say swear words.

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