Episode 55: Recovering From a Cult, Polyphasic Sleep, Preparing for Therapy
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! I just want to take a minute to thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to listen and for sending in questions to help me create this content. Also wanted to give you a heads up that I will be off of social media for next week. Anyways, here are the questions covered in this episode:
- Now that I am out of a cult, how can manage my anxiety and make sure I give my daughter opportunities to socialize?
- Would a polyphasic sleep schedule help me get enough rest for my shift work?
- I'm in a good place recently. What can I do to prepare for therapy between sessions?
As always you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and if you are not yet following me on social, get on that. I'm @duffthepsych on everything.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, kiddos, this is your earmuffs warning. |
| 0:02.8 | This is not an over-the-top raunchy podcast, but if you've read my books, you know I'm not afraid |
| 0:07.2 | to use some colorful language. |
| 0:09.5 | 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 is up, ladies, and |
| 0:33.4 | help, |
| 0:34.4 | and then, |
| 0:35.0 | and bers? |
| 0:36.0 | All right, what is up, ladies, gentlemen, and friends of allieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 0:44.0 | Podcast episode 55. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from |
| 0:48.3 | Southern California and the author of the Hardcore Self-Help book series. Thank you for joining me today. |
| 0:55.3 | Right out the top, I wanted to let you know |
| 0:56.6 | that I will be taking another social media hiatus |
| 0:59.8 | for a week, starting next week. So if you try to reach me on there I will not respond |
| 1:06.4 | probably hopefully if I'm sticking to my to my guns. I did this a few weeks ago and it |
| 1:12.2 | worked out really well for me just took a week off from |
| 1:14.2 | social media it was super restorative I got a ton of things done give me a lot of time to brainstorm |
| 1:19.2 | I did a whole video about it you could check that out on my Facebook page and yeah I just it's something that I want to do pretty regularly because why not you know I think there's a lot of benefits to it very very very little downside to it so taking a week off every once in a while is good. |
| 1:35.1 | So this will be the second month that I do it. I may do it every month or I may do it just once in a while, |
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