Do not confuse this with treatment or mental health advice or direction.

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

Although David Kozlowski is a licensed marriage and family therapist,

he is not functioning as a certified mental health professional in this environment.

But same applies to any professionals who may appear on the Light the Fight, our special DM episode that we give out to answer questions that you guys send into us.

And so today it's just me steering the ship.

Many of you guys know that Heidi is very excited to have her son back from a church mission. And so we just told, hey, spend some time

with your son, your family, enjoy this time. And fortunately, she trusted me again. I think I've

proven myself that when mom's away, I don't

get too disobedient. And I don't, I don't sear everything completely off the cliff, I guess is what

I'm saying. So even though she's not here with us, wanted to take a few minutes to answer a couple

of your questions. So this episode, we're going to be focusing on a question that we got into us, probably about a month ago, I believe.

And before I get into this question, I just want to thank all of our listeners out there for taking the time to message, email, and send in your questions to us.

Again, I feel like I'm constantly apologizing for this, but I just want to let you guys know, we're going to make more of an effort and an intention to answer more and more DMs to get caught up, because

last thing we want to do is make you guys feel like we're not hearing your questions, we're not

taking it seriously. We just got so many all at once that. We just got to get better at that.

So starting for this, starting at this very specific moment, I'm going to start. all it wants it. We just got to get better at that.

So starting for this, starting at this very specific moment, I'm going to start getting better at that by talking about a question someone sent into us about their teenage son.

So it goes, I need advice.

What do you do when your teenager becomes physically violent?

Now, this person mentioned that the teenager is pushing

her younger daughter, you know, even hitting her. So first off, anytime that things get

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