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.

We might also cover some adult topics if they come up in the questions so just be aware of that.

Finally I need to remind you that while I am a therapist I'm not your therapist so

please don't try to use this as a substitute for professional help.

Also, please don't try to sue me.

Thank you. All right, what is up, gentlemen, and friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 69.

I'm your host, Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California and the author of the Hardcore Self-Help

book series.

And welcome, we're doing just another regular Q&A episode today.

A couple things I wanted to mention off the top though last episode I asked you guys

for some reviews and I got a few so to all of you who went to iTunes and reviewed the show thank you very very much it means a lot to me

I already explained the usefulness of reviews before so I'm not going to do that again but I did just want to say that I noticed them and thank you. I also wanted to encourage you guys to keep

sending in questions. I get a steady flow of them but I'm doing something a little bit

interesting coming up so I mentioned in the last episode that my wife and I are expecting another kid

We just had a second ultrasound and everything is still looking good and that'll be happening

You know at the beginning of next year in January so we you know are going to be

more busy leading up to that time and I will be trying to take some time off of you

know basically all of my activities to a certain

certain extent for you know like a paternity leave I don't work for like a

big company I'm essentially self-employed so I you know have to make that for myself and part of that will be

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