020 SelfWork: Why Risk Vulnerability?
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Vulnerability is the presence of a sensitivity, a painful hurt or a struggle. In this episode of SelfWork, Dr. Margaret explores how recognizing your vulnerability is pragmatically important in managing mental illness. Accepting and revealing these tender aspects of yourself is also vital in deeply connecting with others, and with developing a greater understanding of […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:14.0 | At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi and welcome to self-work. I Dr. Margaret Rutherford I'm a clinical psychologist in |
| 0:35.2 | practicing in Fayetteville Arkansas and I cannot believe this is my 20th |
| 0:39.9 | podcast when I took a course on podcasting last August I was told that the average number |
| 0:46.1 | of podcasts that someone does is eight. So I am well above the average and a lot of that is thanks to you. I've been receiving so much feedback |
| 0:56.6 | emails comments subscribers so thank you very much for letting me know and there are those of you out there who are enjoying it. |
| 1:05.8 | Today we're going to be talking about vulnerability. Now the definition of vulnerability is |
| 1:12.3 | being able to be hurt or having a sensitivity. It's not |
| 1:16.4 | the same as being scared or admitting defeat, which I think is often confused |
| 1:22.1 | actually. |
| 1:23.0 | In fact in my estimation, accepting vulnerability is actually a strength. |
| 1:29.0 | Why is that? |
| 1:31.0 | Because when you accept them, when you know what they are, when you accept them when you know what they are when you understand |
| 1:34.4 | them you can get really good at recognizing when those vulnerabilities are |
| 1:40.1 | skewing your thinking or your choices but But it takes being honest about them with |
| 1:44.8 | yourself. That's what it takes and perhaps even with others. We're going to talk a |
| 1:48.9 | little bit about how knowing what your vulnerabilities are especially important in mental illness. |
| 1:55.4 | What are the gifts of vulnerability? |
| 1:57.6 | How are your vulnerabilities created? |
| 2:00.3 | Vulnerable is hard word to say. |
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