Hello, friends! I hope you are taking great care of yourselves this week. To be honest, I've seen a lot of people having a bit of a hard time. If you are in this camp, I see you! This episode features the following amazing listener questions:
As always you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and see full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode259
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Hello, friends! This episode is a re-post of an interview I did a couple years ago with the amazing Dr. Laura Copley. Dr. Copley is a trauma specialist and talks all about PTSD, trauma misconceptions, posttraumatic growth, and gives you some practical tools to use if you encounter trauma in your life.
She's doing a bunch of cool stuff including online courses, which you can learn all about over at lauracopley.com
As always, you can send me questions or topics to duffthepsych@gmail.com and also please let me know if you'd like me to start doing interviews again!
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Hello, friends! I hope you're having a really good week. Enjoyed making this episode for you. The questions here have somewhat of a theme. Here are the questions I take:
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and check out the show notes for this episode at duffthepsych.com/episode255.
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Hello, all! Hopefully you are doing well and sleeping better than I have been recently. Yikes. This episode is another Q&A with some awesome and vulnerable listener-submitted questions. Here's what I cover:
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at duffthepsych.com/episode254
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Hello, friends! After a little (big) ramble about the hardest part in my job as a neuropsychologist, I answer the following questions:
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and check out the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode253
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Hello, friends! After a long ramble about some terribly nerdy stuff, I get into two really good listener questions today. Here's what I cover:
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and check out the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode252
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Hello, friends! After a long ramble about some terribly nerdy stuff, I get into two really good listener questions today. Here's what I cover:
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and check out the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode252
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Hello, all! In this episode, I answer two questions submitted by awesome listeners like yourself. I hope you enjoy and that you're taking great care of yourself.
Here are the questions:
As always you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and full show notes are available at duffthepsych.com/episode251
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Hello, friends! Straightforward Q&A for you today. Here's what I cover:
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and check out duffthepsych.com/episode250 for full show notes.
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Hello, all! Please excuse my mistake with the episode number. Bah! I also was perhaps a little delirious, but that just adds to the flavor... right??
In this Q&A, I answer the following:
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and stop by duffthepsych.com/episode249 for full show notes!
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Hello, everyone! In this episode, I sit down and have a go at my own journal prompts from the 100 Free Journal Prompts on my website. Some of my responses are entertaining and straight forward... others get pretty personal. Hope you enjoy!
As always, you can send me questions or topics for the show to duffthepsych@gmail.com.
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Hello, friends! Got another Q&A episode for you. The 2nd question in here could be potentially triggering to some, so please be aware of that. It doesn't go into anything explicit, but the topic is something that some may be sensitive to. Here's what we cover:
As always you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and check out the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode247
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Hello, you beautiful people! Today I have a question and answer episode with two great questions sent in by listeners like you. Quick update before that.
I'm current working on a Hardcore Self Help workbook for anxiety. You can get the 100 journal prompts from that notebook as a freebie for signing up at duffthepsych.com/workbook!
Here are the questions:
As always you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and check out the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode246
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Hello, friends! Got a Q&A for you today that is actually just one two-part question. Stay tuned next week for a freebie update!
Here's two-part question:
As always you can send me your questions or topic suggestions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and full show notes are available at duffthepsych.com/episode245
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Hello, friends! I hope you're having a really good week. This is a Q&A episode with two really important questions. The first one talks about a suicide attempt in a non-graphic way. I wanted to let you know that off the bat so you can be aware going into it. Nothing intense or visually striking, but potentially triggering nonetheless.
Questions for this episode:
As always you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and if you'd like to see the full show notes head over to duffthepsych.com/episode244
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Hello, friends! Sorry in advance that the audio is a tiny bit blown out in this one. Hopefully you don't notice, but something weird was going on with my audio interface.
ANYWAYS... got a great episode here for you today. Two questions that I felt somewhat underqualified to answer, as a man, but they were too good not to share. The questions are:
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and if you'd like to see the full show notes, check out duffthepsych.com/episode243!
Hello, friends! In this episode, I take a few shorter questions covering some amazing topics such as:
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and if you'd like to see full show notes check out duffthepsych.com/episode242
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Hello, all! Hope you're happyish and safeish out there. This is a two-question Q&A episode featuring the following:
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and view the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode241
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Hey, friends! This is just a casual episode of me sharing about what I've been up to lately. It's a big ol' ramble about many topics including:
Next week will be a Q&A episode, so please send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com
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Hello, friends! This week, I have another rapid-fire Q&A for you. I took some questions from the private Hardcore Self Help Facebook group and tackled them one by one without any planning or outlining. Hope you enjoy! Here are the questions covered:
As always, you can send me your questions or topics for the show to duffthepsych@gmail.com
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Hello, everyone! Hope you're treating yourselves well this week. I have a great Q&A for you with the following questions:
As always you can send me YOUR questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and check out the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode238
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Hello, friends! In this Q&A, I tackle two interesting listener questions relating to couples who both go through dips in their mental wellness at the same time, and coping with the winter blues and what you can do to help yourself feel better!
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If you have a question for the podcast, send it over to duffthepsych@gmail.com
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I have to be honest with you all that this is not the most inspiring episode of the podcast. There is a lot of venting of frustration and fears. We also talk about suicidality, so please be aware of that. It's always important to me that we are REAL on this show. It would be unfair of me to give you the impression that the mental health system is perfect. As someone who works in the field and as a family that has been in the thick of navigating it, we definitely have some frustrations.
In this episode, we talk about operating with the current state of the world, Joelle's recent voluntary psychiatric hospitalization, and how we have had to try something like 6 or 7 times to find a psychiatrist to help with Joelle's meds. Despite the frustrations discussed, there are some good takeaways. Joelle is currently much more stable. She is no longer in her deep depressive episode and is no longer suicidal. We are currently finding a balance in our life that is working really well.
If you have questions or suggestions for future topics, please send them over to duffthepsych@gmail.com and if you would like to learn more about my clinical services, head over to robertduffphd.com
Hello, friends! Happy New Year - welcome to the first episode of 2021! This is an episode inspired by a single question relating to breakups! Talking from recent experience, I offer my best advice to help get you through and process the emotional turmoil that can come with a breakup.
If you'd like to suggest a question or topic, shoot me an email to duffthepsych@gmail.com
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