This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them.

I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work.

Hi, I'm Dr. Margaret and welcome back to self-work. I really appreciate you listening.

I started this podcast about four months ago. I really want to reach people who might never

darken a therapist door who may not even know what therapy is like or

what psychologists are like. And I also of course wanted to reach out to those of you who are

interested in mental health, mental illness, self-help.

So if you're either one of those kinds of listeners, I appreciate you being here.

Today we're going to be talking about gratitude.

Three different ways of thinking about gratitude.

How it works in relationships and why it's important.

The relationship between gratitude and depression, and we're not just talking

about chronic depression or major depression we're also talking about grief.

And then as the title suggests, can gratitude backfire and if it does what kinds of problems

does it cause and what do I actually mean by gratitude backfiring then we're going

to have an email from a listener. It's a great

question today. What happens when someone you love is following the advice of a

therapist and that very advice hurts your relationship or at least seems to.

I'm going to do my best to answer a really in-depth question.

If you get on Pinterest these days you're going to see a lot of pins on gratitude.

Many people are talking about it.

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