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.

I'm David Kozlowski.

I'm minus my host, Heidi Swap.

She's not with me today, but she'll be back shortly.

She's spending some very much needed quality time with her family. And so we, yeah, we want her to spend that time with her family and she'll be back next week as usual. So in the meantime, I took a little bit of this moment here tonight to sit down and answer a few questions from some of the DMs that have been sent

into us. Thank you guys for your patience on the DMs. I know it's taken a little while for us to

get to some of these questions, but we're going to start chopping away at them, starting with this

question sent in right here. So the question is, how do I regain my 17-year-old daughter's trust

and open up the line of communication back after asking so

many questions that I lost her trust that caused me to lose her trust. Okay. So earlier in this

email that this person sent, they had stated that they'd listened to the statements versus

questions podcasts here on Light the Fight.

And after hearing it, it sounded like they were like, yes, no.

They were like, okay, this makes perfect sense.

Hence the yes.

And then they realized, I've been doing it wrong.

And now my child, excuse me, now my child is older and would I do to make up that lost time?

Well, the good news is you can make up that lost time and you don't have to do the proper way of

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