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. Hello friends of all varieties this is the Hardcore Self-Help

podcast episode 119 I'm your host Dr Robert Duff a psychologist from

Southern California and the author of the Hardcore Self-Help book

series today's another shorter episode so I will be taking one really

great question that you guys sent in. If you have questions please send them into

Duff the Psych at gmail.com and we'll be returning to the regular full-length episodes pretty soon here.

Next week is the course launch.

That's why I'm taking all this time off.

On August 1st, the course kick anxiety's ass will be going live and it'll be open for two weeks for

enrollment after that it'll be closed down and you won't be able to get it until

next year. If you enroll of course you're going to have lifetime access no

matter what I end up doing with the

course opening and closing it but if you don't get in within this window you're not

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