Hello, It's me again

I used to podcast all the time. I've been away unintentionally for a year. I thought I would get back into it so here we go again.

Doc David

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I cannot believe I have not recorded a podcast for a whole darn year. That's crazy. Um, well, welcome back. For those of you that are new, let me introduce myself to you. My name is Dr. David Simonson. I have a PhD in psychology, and I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist for the last 26 years in Washington State. You can go look me up, see if that's true or not. Some of you have looked me up, some of you have complained about me. I know that. And that's fine. Different tastes for different people. But um, so I've been doing this podcast since probably about 2015. And I used to have a co-host, he moved away, and so I've just kind of been doing short little clips, short little pods about different things that come to mind for me. And so I used to do it weekly, but now I'm I didn't do it for a whole year, and now I'm gonna try to get back into doing it weekly. I may not be successful at it, but oh well, we'll see what happens. And um, I'm a married guy, been married for about 30 years. I have seven kids, and no, I'm not Catholic or Mormon. People immediately think that, but we just have lots of kids. Um, we adopted our number seven. Um, so yeah, lots of kids. And we enjoy our kids. We have I have two grandkids now and definitely enjoy grandkids, and I do talk to all my kids. Um, a lot of my content seems to center around estrangement. And um I try not to just be focused solely on estrangement, but I do get sucked in a lot of times into talking about difficult parenting relationships. And no, I am not estranged from any of my kids. I work hard to not be estranged from any of my kids. Um and that usually what I do is keep my opinion to myself. That's how I would encourage people to not be estranged from their kids. But that that works well for me. Um what else? I have a social media presence, um, largely on TikTok, um, which is very very my style, right? So it's you talk about a thing for a short form video and it works great. Um YouTube, I kind of dabbled in a little bit, but I've put my podcast out on YouTube, so um that's where you're going to see me on on my channel doing just what I'm talking about here, you're gonna see there. I know there's other people that do podcasts, but they do video. I may incorporate video at some point. Um I I don't know how useful it is, but I may do it. It just requires more editing, and I d I don't have this editing skill, and I don't necessarily want to have to sit and try to learn editing stuff related to video. Um it's even a challenge to do editing stuff editing stuff related to podcasts, so I can't imagine videos. But once I I'm sure once you understood it, it would be easy to do. Um what is this podcast about? This podcast is about relationships, it's about talking to you, the listener, about things that I think possibly are important or things that I can I see as educational around relationships. One of the things I really want to try to do is to uh interview people that I find interesting on social media. And that it and so what that means to me is like doesn't mean I have to agree with the these people. It it just means I find them interesting and I want to hear about their story. I want to ask them why they come to the conclusions that they come to. And I think it's gonna potentially be a challenge to get some of the people that I want to get on here to be interviewed because um they I think a lot of people, not a lot, but many people on TikTok, especially strange parents, think that um I'm out to get them, which I am not out to get them. Um, as I've said on social media a lot of the times, I try to maintain a balance of wanting to interact with both sides. Um and I really try to point out crummy behavior. I I don't call people names, I try not to be mean about people's looks and how they sound. Um, but if you have behavior that I think is harmful to a relationship, I will definitely call that out. And some people like it and some people don't, and that's fine. What am I gonna do? That's just kind of how I roll in the world. Um, and so I want to try to do some interviews. I'm always open to you, the listener, reaching out to me and saying, hey, why don't you talk about this topic? And if I find it interesting as well, chances are I'll have I'll have a podcast about it. Um and that has happened in the past at times. And so my experience has been uh working with families and couples for the last 26 years, and I've sat down and kind of calculated hours of that. And so that means I've had about 40,000 plus face-to-face client hours, which has given me a lot of opportunities to see human behavior in action and to see how people respond negatively and positively to difficult things. And so I try to talk about that kind of stuff in my social media, which is short form, and I will also try to talk about that and have talked about that in this podcast, which is a bit longer form. So um I have all the ways to find me can be found on Google. Um, the website page or the podcast page, website URL gives you ways to contact me. So if you have questions, comments, things you're interested in, things you want me to talk about, I welcome it all. And hopefully you enjoy listening off into the future. Have a great week.