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A Podcast with Charlie Swenson – To Hell and Back

Getting Out of Hell and Into Reality – Episode 120

40 min • 16 juni 2025

This podcast focuses on the fact that we spend most of our lives living in the stories we tell ourselves about reality, but not in reality itself. Hear how DBT helps us to find our way back to reality, and how doing so increases the quality of our lives and the lives of those around us

Getting Out of Hell and Into Reality – Episode 120

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