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Nothing on this podcast is made to supplement or supersede the relationship and direction of your mental health caretakers.

Although David Koslowski is a licensed marriage and family therapist, he is not functioning as a certified mental health professional in this environment.

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Welcome to the OG Therapy.

Kirby to welcome to another episode of OG Therapy.

As always, I'm one of the OGs.

I'm here to give you some suggestions and ideas and answer questions

about things that you as parents, teenagers, kids, whatever questions you got that were pertaining

towards relationships, how to improve relationships, whether it's a relationship with yourself,

it's relationship with family members, online relationships, friends, work relationships,

you name it. If it's relationship-based, I'll take the

question and throw my two cents in to give you ideas and suggestions of how to best handle

these situations to diffuse drama and increase connection and innovation. All right, so today I got

a question from a teenager and it goes like this. I have a friend who started vaping and getting into trouble.

I don't know anything I could do to help my friend feel better and stop.

So I was wondering some things I could do.

All right.

Well, thank you very much for that question.

So let's talk real quick.

What exactly is a friend first of all before I even answer the question. A friend to me, I mean, it's a friend can be a lot of things,

but a friend to me is kind of like a lifeline. Well, what's a lifeline? When you're drowning,

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