Episode 37: Emotional Abuse, Word Finding, and Cutting Ties
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Thanks for your patience with my little break last week. I needed to allow myself to be human for a bit. Hopefully you enjoyed and made good use of the guided relaxation. This week it's back to the questions. I take some tough but important questions in this episode. Here's what we cover:
- Is it possible for a relationship to survive emotional abuse?
- Should I be worried about my word finding difficulties?
- How do I feel better about cutting ties with my family?
As always you can send me your questions at duffthepsych@gmail.com or on twitter at http://twitter.com/duffthepsych
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, kiddos, this is your earmuffs warning. |
| 0:02.4 | This is not an over-the-top raunchy podcast, but if you've read my books, you know I'm not afraid to use some |
| 0:07.6 | colourful language. |
| 0:08.9 | We might also cover some adult topics if they come up in the questions so just be aware of that. |
| 0:14.9 | Finally I need to remind you that while I am a therapist I'm not your therapist so |
| 0:19.6 | please don't try to use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:23.0 | Also, please don't try to sue me. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you. All right, what's up, ladies, and these gentlemen and friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self Help Podcast |
| 0:43.8 | episode 37. I'm your host Dr Robert Duff a psychologist from Southern |
| 0:48.0 | California and the author of the Hardcore Self Help Book Series. Welcome. |
| 0:52.6 | Thank you for your patience. |
| 0:53.6 | Last week I kind of copped out a little bit |
| 0:55.4 | and did a guided relaxation instead of a regular episode. |
| 0:59.9 | So I hope that you did enjoy that. |
| 1:02.6 | Mostly I just needed a little break man. |
| 1:05.4 | The world, as you guys are probably well aware, |
| 1:09.0 | is a crazy place right now, especially in the United States |
| 1:11.6 | and, you know know the aftermath of what's been going on has |
| 1:16.3 | been difficult for me and for a variety of people that I you know I work with and I kind |
| 1:22.3 | of just needed to be good to myself as a human you know I work with and I kind of just needed to be good to myself as a human you know I just needed to take a little bit of a break from |
| 1:27.0 | answering the questions just for that week and you know I feel it worked out I feel good about this episode. Got some really great questions here. So thank you for your patience with that. |
| 1:37.0 | I did want to give you a little update. So something really cool happened to me. I have a few things on a list of goals of mine, you know, kind of bucket list items for personal and professional development and one of those is to do a TED Talk. |
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