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Hi, Dr. Laura. Hi. What can I do for you?

Well, I kind of a lot of things going on. I was calling I am actually in the state that I live in.

I am actually a licensed counselor, but I've been a grief counselor. I've done a lot of support

groups, grief support groups for years. And for the first time in my life, I'm actually going through

my own grief. And I'm having trouble as a counselor actually getting help. And I don't know if you

ran across this before because it's hard to do. Can you slow down a little bit? I think it's

neat to understand what you said. You having a hard time opening yourself up to help being vulnerable

with a counselor? Or what did you mean? Yes. Because of the fact, it's hard when you know the

dynamic and you, you know, and it's just hard for me to, I guess you kind of always put yourself

in that on the helper. And it's hard to be in that situation is to help be, you know, and I'm

having trouble finding someone that I kind of can fit with that way. It may not, you may not need

a counselor. You may need a really good friend. Okay. You don't need somebody who's trained. You

need somebody to listen to you. And you need to speak. Well, let's sort of try it right now.

Even though I'm one of what's the hardest part of you being vulnerable to the pain you're going

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