This is self-work and I'm Dr 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 and welcome to the 22nd episode of self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical

psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've been practicing over 20 years and I've been

podcasting now since October. So I'm absolutely delighted to be here and I'm

delighted you're here. We're going to be talking today about how to accept your body.

What triggered this podcast was a listener email. I actually

wrote a post to answer her because I was so moved by what she said in her email

to me. There are a lot of people who have trouble accepting

body image or just their body as it is. And of course there can be some pretty irrational

screwed-up ways of looking at your body too and we'll talk about

the different psychological diagnoses that have to do with eating in body image.

Then I'm going to touch briefly on my own anorexia and what I learned. I'm no longer actively

anorexic. I had it as a senior in college and a little bit before then and a little bit after that.

I was thinking that people who listen to this podcast

fairly regularly they may be beginning to wonder if I've had every psychological

problem there is because I've talked about panic disorder and now I'm talking

about anorexia no I have not had them all but I certainly through having

anorexia learned a lot about it and so I'll share that with you. Then there are three things

that I believe you can do today to begin body acceptance. You know I like to focus

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