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hi guys thanks for coming today my name

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is Brooke I'm one of the silicate errs

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here and this is Robin she's also a

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facilitator she I just want to go around

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and introduce yourselves again good

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start

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I'm sandy

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right

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okay well

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thanks for coming today guys so we're

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just going to quickly go over the agenda

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to start we're going to introduce the

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group norms and then we're going to do a

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quick truck in talk about the homework

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from last week and then we're going to

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go into relaxation techniques we're also

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going to have a guest speaker come in

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and then we're going to kind of talk

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about the homework we want you to do for

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next week okay I'm just gonna go over

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the rules for group you guys are all

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familiar with them but just going to

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clean all things talked about group are

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two main confidential there is to be no

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unhelpful terms or labels this is pork

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group so we want to work together in

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positive ways all members are to be

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respectful of each other will be at

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least one break in each session and

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participants will do the best to attend

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each session and it's not or three to be

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late or anything just call myself or

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Robin you guys have our number and your

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we're going to call you once a week

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called you last Wednesday just to check

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in and see how things were going so that

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will continue for the next couple groups

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okay

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we're going to move into the check-in so

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funny but everybody can just kind of

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tell me on a scale of one to ten how

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they're feeling today ten being

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excellent one being you're not coming

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very good nature and if you want stir I

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feel like I'm four

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six

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five

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five

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okay so we did some homework from last

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week's session we talked about coping

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skills I didn't find situations where

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you're feeling uncomfortable or negative

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in any way with your illness and

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addressing ways to cope with that so

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does someone want to start until it's

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about their issue and then what they use

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to cope affect

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and you want to start well I

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was depressed

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smokes involved

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and did that really help in that

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situation I

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guess yeah what did you do for you did

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it calm you down yeah

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so you really needed something and that

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was that with the choice for me

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okay we're going to talk more about

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substance use and your medications later

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on but it was I think identified the

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situation they need to get out of and

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you used a coping strategy for that so

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thank you for sharing camera genetics

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okay

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so

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last week I had I didn't really want to

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leave my house it was cold out but I

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remember that we talked about how it's

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important

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talk to people and I looked out my

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window and I saw my neighbor up there

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and

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I decided to challenge myself and go and

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say hi and talk to him and

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when I was talking to him it was

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became really overwhelming for me and I

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kept thinking that he

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did he thought that I was that I was

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crazy

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you know the crazy lady just came out of

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her house kind of thing and so like I

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stopped and I took a couple deep breaths

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and

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and but then I started thinking that he

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was looking at me funny you know he's

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thinking

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crazy again and so I had to make an

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excuse to go back inside the house but

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for when I was

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breathing I felt better I'm glad that

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you can identify that you're feeling

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anxious and we used a coping skill the

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attraction what last week it could be

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you were able to do that and we're going

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to go more into breathing techniques and

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relaxation today so many ways I can help

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with more of the anxiety and kind of the

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feelings of being judge Thank You

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Bryan would you like to talk to them

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situation experienced this week I

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thought I was hearing things and there

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was a upstairs

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and I then I wasn't sure so I called my

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neighbor who lives upstairs and she she

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talked to me it was it was her she was

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moving the furniture so I was I was

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hearing things but it was

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to identify situation where thought you

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may have in hearing company and you

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wanted to check in with somebody to just

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kind of confirm validate how your family

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and is that me or someone you who

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supports you often yes she's my landlord

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to

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live in her face okay that's great that

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you have somebody that you can call

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that's really great right thank you for

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sharing

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the other day

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Mike had I think he was mad at me

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no he bit me really he bit me hard on my

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hand and I wanted to get I wanted to

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hurt him but then I I said no don't hurt

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him he didn't mean it and then I

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listened to music and the music helped

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me and it took me away from my bad

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feelings and then I went and I pet my

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cat and he didn't bite me

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work through that scenario in your head

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you know step away from the situation

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is doing a really wonderful job of

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incorporating coping skills that we

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talked about last week into your daily

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lives and it's also a learning

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experience everyone else in the group

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you see with techniques for people and

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also try those techniques thank you guys

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for sharing

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we are now going to talk about

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relaxation techniques

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okay so we're going to start with a

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simple breathing exercise so for

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everybody you can kind of sit back get

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comfortable

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kind of just loosen up a little bit and

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close your eyes

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we're going to get you to take three

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deep breaths okay so let's start getting

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through the nose

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and

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that simple brain which can be done and

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where you're going to richest well how'd

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you feel about that

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good good Thank You Lee corporated into

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your

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great great Kemp you're familiar with it

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I

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I didn't realize how how anxious I was

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before beginning I'm like I felt like I

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was able to breathe because sometimes I

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just I'm bringing too quickly or I don't

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even realize that I'm not breathing I

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hold it in so doing that just kind of

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made me

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and being super anxious your heart rates

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this is right and you start going like

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there's a control and just being able to

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breathe in and getting that control

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again is really constructive in

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situations like that so that's great

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but do things breathing is a lot easier

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to focus on spending the noises and

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sounds from hearing or not and

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breathing is easier than

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drinking is then I the walls start to on

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me

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it gets really really crazy

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easier scope for you then maybe some of

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the other kind of cozy

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when I breathe really deep it makes me

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feel like I'm petting my cat and I like

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this even kind of you know really

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breathing to petting your cat as and

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enjoy a lot to me or you yeah nice to

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meet you feel calm unless the cat wants

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to bite me but then maybe I will try

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breathing

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these are all self soothing techniques

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right so you can have full control over

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this and also if you have someone around

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you they could do it with you because

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it's just calming for anybody we're

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going to do so that's great guys

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we are going to have a 10 minute break

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and then we have a meditation specialist

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coming in today I'm going to try

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meditation but it's a really good form

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of relaxation join discuss homework for

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next week yeah so we've practices now in

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group so maybe throughout the week this

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week you can try incorporating the

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breathing exercise into your daily life

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maybe when you get a kind of a negative

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symptoms anxiety hallucination

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try the breathing technique and next

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week we'll come back