All right, hello everybody. This is the 200th episode of the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast.

Hi, I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you and yeah so 200th episode I'm doing things a little bit differently today

I had a lot of different thoughts about what I might do for this episode things like maybe doing a best of episode where I compile some of the best answers to questions that have been asked so far, or an episode where I share success stories or an episode where I reflect back on the past,

I think it's been four years since I started the podcast, something like that.

But as of right now, so it's March 17th, 2020 at the moment.

And this week I have been at home so far,

along with my wife, along with the kids, and we have been sheltering here during this

whole coronavirus outbreak. And all signs have been pointing me toward maybe doing something related to that.

Now there have been a lot of different articles, YouTube videos, lives on, you know, various social media platforms, all sorts of stuff like that,

that have been very helpful in terms of sharing, you know, psychological tips,

all sorts of things you might need to know in dealing with this.

What I haven't seen yet is a guided relaxation.

So that's what I want to do with you today. I want to do a guided relaxation. So that's what I want to do with you today. I want to do a guided relaxation to help you to just relax, you know, to help you let go a little bit to help you turn off because I think that one of the things that is going on for a lot of people is

just this chronic state of worry and uncertainty. I've certainly been out there. It's so funny just how fast things change. I've been out there, you know, out in public recently. Today I went out to the grocery store and took the kids out for a little while because the

rain finally let up.

That's another thing that's been fun about this whole quarantine lifestyle is the

rain hasn't let us leave at all. So we got out today and I got out today go to the

grocery store and yeah, the world feels different. It feels bleak and apocalyptic. There's no bread on the shelves. There's no, you know,

milk on the shelves. There hardly any diapers on the shelves. So it's normal to feel weird, you know, about what's going on right now.

But I think that for a lot of us, I think we're so weirded out by what's going on and so sort of

glued to the moment-to-moment update and just trying to get through it all that we don't

have the chance to turn our brain off and rest and recover, which is so vital.

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