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 go ahead and get into the show. All varieties.

Welcome to the Hardcore Self-Help-Help All Right. All Right. Hello, Friends of All Varieties.

Welcome to the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast, episode 85.

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

book series. And today we're going to talk about the Holliday. and the author of the Hardcore Self-Help Book Series.

And today we're going to talk about the holidays.

But before that, I wanted to say sorry about last week.

I didn't do an episode last week. I got sick.

And, you know, I try to practice what I preach I try not to push myself

unnecessarily hard and you know just you know get stuff done that doesn't need to

get done if I'm sick and there's no reason I can't skip a week on the

podcast or you know can't skip a day of work or something like that though I did

skip a day of work for my clinical practice and stuff just ended up getting

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