you know challenging myself to have these longer periods where you can sort of get through

the you know existential itchiness that comes with starting a meditation session and get to the deeper

substance you know what might I discover there?

I'm not sure because I don't really give myself that opportunity.

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 good.

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and great, and free, All right.

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

Podcast episode 332. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka

Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you. And

today I'm not doing any question and answer. Instead I'm going to do a bit of a you know new year recap. and

instead I'm going to do a bit of a new year recap and talking about what's going on for the next year, my approach,

and also unveiling my word for the year.

If you've been following for a while, you know that for the past few years I've been

integrating a word for the year and I'll talk more about sort of my approach and

what I do with that in a moment. But I wanted to say, hey, happy

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