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 Right.

Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the hardcore self-help podcast episode 90.

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

hardcore self-help book series.

If you were new to the podcast, normally I do question and answer

episodes where I take your questions about mental health or psychology or therapy or

anything related to that and I answer them for you. You can email me at duff the psych at gmail

if you have questions for a future episode but today I'm going to be talking more about the new year.

You've probably heard a lot of people talking about the new year, you know, on

Facebook and other social platforms on other podcasts. If you're a podcast listener, videos on

YouTube, everybody's focused on the new year, which I think is normal. You know on the new year which I think is normal you know the new year

is just like anything else you know any days is just like any other day but I don't

think there's anything wrong with looking forward to a new year and trying to use that as a jumping off point to have some

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