Episode 60: All About Breathing
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
For this episode, I was feeling a little too overwhelmed by the week to do a Q&A so instead I decided to talk to you all about breathing. We talk about different breathing exercises and how to practice them so that they are useful to you in moments of stress or anxiety. We cover the physiological mechanism behind relaxation breathing. Finally, we briefly cover mindfulness and meditative breathing.
The tone of this whole episode is a bit more calm and subdued. I hope that it's relaxing as well as informative!
As always you can send me your questions for future Q&As to duffthepsych@gmail.com
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| 0:00.0 | All right kiddos, this is your earmuffs warning. 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 colorful language. |
| 0:09.0 | 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. |
| 0:24.0 | Also, please don't try to sue me. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you. All right, what is up, ladies, and friends of all varieties? This is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 0:37.0 | Help Podcast episode. is up ladies gentlemen and friends of all varieties this is the hardcore self-help |
| 0:44.1 | podcast episode 60 I'm your host Dr Robert Duff a psychologist from southern |
| 0:48.9 | California and the author of the hardcore self-help book series and welcome if you are a repeat |
| 0:55.4 | listener you will notice that the tone is a little more chill today a little more |
| 1:00.1 | relaxed a little more subdued and that is I guess intentional. Today I kind of struggled with |
| 1:08.2 | what to do about the podcast. I didn't want to dive into a full Q&A podcast mostly because I've been sort of at the |
| 1:16.6 | brink of being overwhelmed this week. I wouldn't say that I'm burnt out yet, but you know I'm approaching that and concerned about not getting there. |
| 1:27.2 | Main reason being I'm not going to get into too much detail here because I don't want to stress |
| 1:31.2 | anybody out or anything like that, but my wife was in a car crash |
| 1:34.7 | yesterday and she's fine she has a little bit of whiplash we went to the doctor and |
| 1:40.4 | got it checked out she's totally fine The baby was not in the car and nobody in the |
| 1:45.8 | entire situation bystander or passenger was injured. So it worked out as well as it possibly could but our car did get totaled and so I've been dealing with insurance and getting a rental car and getting a new car seat and all kinds of just logistical stuff and then I'm trying to make sure that my |
| 2:04.6 | wife can rest so that means that I'm wrangling the baby more and that's hard |
| 2:09.6 | because he likes to climb all over her and having something like this happened with a one-year-old is a little |
| 2:15.5 | inconvenient. So I've just been trying to pick up a lot of the pieces and do a lot of the work |
| 2:20.4 | myself and I'm a little tired little worn out like I said but you know I am happy to be here and I did want to do something for you guys so I thought what I would do in the interest of keeping things mellow is actually talk about breathing. |
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