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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 Right.

Hello, friends of All Varieties.

This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 89.

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

Help Book series. And today we're doing something a little bit different.

We are doing a guided meditation. I've done one of these before, but this one's going to be particularly

focused on the holidays. I know I've already done a holiday focused

episode but this one's going to be a little bit different in that it's not going to be, you know, me

teaching you about different strategies. It's more going to be just you know letting you take a

breather letting you let go some of the burdens that you have and just taking care of

you for a bit you deserve to be taken care of and you deserve to relax and recover your energy.

So we're just going to go ahead and get into it, okay? Next week we'll be off because of the holiday.

I'm celebrating Christmas with my family. And yeah, so next

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