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 121. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from

Southern California and the author of the Hardcore self-help book series.

And we are back to our regularly scheduled programming today.

Thank you for your patience while I did a few short episodes recently.

That was really helpful to do.

And I'm really glad that I sort of was nice to myself in that way

I preach a lot of things having to do with you know taking good care of yourself

resting putting boundaries in place not killing yourself with work and

things like that. But as most psychologists I'm not always practicing what I'm preaching, but I try to.

I try to. And this was one example of that I batch processed four different episodes

So I recorded them all in one night and then over the past four weeks you've been hearing those episodes as I've released them

So that was helpful to to to block out some time that I didn't need to

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