It's absolutely okay to feel difficult emotions. It's okay to feel mad, let down, frustrated, anything else that's popped up over the course of this year.

There's a power in those frustrations because those frustrations represent the flip side of your aspirations.

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. I'm going to be free. All Right.

Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 231.

I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff

aka Duff the psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you and

today we are doing a guided meditation. I was kind of like feeling like I didn't really

want to do more questions this week. I want to do something different and I

didn't quite have a topic for you know a deep dive episode and I realize it's been

a while since I've done a

meditation and you guys always like these and I think it's a good time for one so I

went ahead and did a guided meditation for you I want to be clear about this

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