Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers.

This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general,

and some of those could be sensitive for you.

I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations.

So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it out

check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay

but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a

psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.

This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help.

So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All Right. Hello, friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help

podcast episode one second. All varieties. This is the Hardcore Health

Help Podcast episode 117. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from

Southern California and the author of the Hardcore Self Health Book

series.

And welcome.

So we're going to be doing something that we did before, which is a shorter episode today.

If you guys have been following along back when I was doing my sort of

paternity leave with my new son I did some shorter episodes where I did kind of

basically one question per episode rather than three questions per episode and I'm going to do that again for a few weeks so for the next four weeks so today included so today and then the next three weeks after this

We're going to be doing a single question episode rather than

doing three questions. Reason being is I need to find some more time in my life to really nail down

the final touches on the course that I'm releasing my kick anxiety's

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