012 SelfWork: How To Become An Emotional Grownup
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to feel emotionally grown up? Feeling mature, decisive, not being reactive but responsive, having insight into our own behavior and changing that behavior when it’s appropriate – when we can do these things, we are acting in our adult selves. So much of how or how long that takes depends on what […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues |
| 0:17.0 | common in today's world and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a |
| 0:25.2 | few minutes today for your own self-work. |
| 0:30.3 | Hi I'm Dr. Margaret and welcome or welcome back to self-work. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm a clinical psychologist and I've practiced for over 20 years in Fable, Arkansas. |
| 0:40.0 | I launched self-work about three months ago with the intent of trying to reach |
| 0:44.7 | people who may or may not even come into therapy but would listen to a podcast |
| 0:49.7 | about mental health. So I'm delighted you're here. We've got lots of information to |
| 0:54.8 | cover today as the topic I think is one that we all can relate to. So what are we |
| 1:00.7 | talking about? We're talking about if you're as grown up as you think you are. |
| 1:06.0 | And what I mean by that is how connected are you still to the strategies you used as a child |
| 1:12.0 | to cope with your family situation or to even survive your family situation. |
| 1:18.5 | Are you still using those same strategies you used when you are 8 or 11 or 13 or is how you're coping with life more geared |
| 1:27.1 | to the actual present, to actual reality. |
| 1:31.2 | I'll explore more of what I mean. First I'll come up with a definition of strategy and |
| 1:36.2 | then we'll work on how you recognize how you came up with a strategy you're using. |
| 1:41.2 | Third, we're going to talk about what happens if you don't change |
| 1:45.2 | strategies and how to know if you have or you haven't. A big clue there just in |
| 1:52.0 | case you want to know is that usually you have over or under reactions to things and that's a real clue you haven't changed strategies. |
| 2:01.0 | Number four is all about what I love to talk about which is what can you do about it. |
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