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February 14, 2024 96 mins

Taking care of yourself | hobbies are important!

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In this episode Duane talks about the importance of having a hobby or something that you enjoy doing. He also talks about the struggles when you are down, depressed, and beaten with ways to push yourself to break yourself out of that downward spiral. He then fields questions from others on silver bullets, narcissists seeking control, being forced to spend time with the ex, and finally an update on his current medical situation.

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Table of Contents 

00:00 Start

02:55 - Welcome to the livestream

06:04 - Finding some positive to do hobbies

17:19 - Advice on handling message about school

21:20 - Narc fishing for control

29:57 - Supervised visits and lashing out

36:14 - Having to spend time with the ex

37:16 - When drop offs are late

39:54 - Silver bullet - supervised visits 

47:02 - Don't respond immediately

52:49 - Worry about kids and narcissism

59:41 - Paranoia and narcissists

01:01:27 - Graduations with ex

01:08:03 - Realizing you have narc friends

01:12:03 - Getting to the other side!

01:13:03 - Our child as abusers?

01:21:48 - Ex should be normal around kids

01:25:31 - Narc mom blaming you?

01:31:32 - Medical update on me

01:35:21 - End of show wrap-up

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This episode was sponsored by Hypnosis Downloads - you can find out more and support the Podcast by visiting http://www.dadsurvivingdivorce.com/hypnosis

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