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 and thanks for joining me on today's episode number 41, which I can't believe, of self-work.

I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical psychologist.

I've been in private practice for over 20 years in Fable, Arkansas, and about 10 months ago,

11 months ago, by the time you're listening to this, I began podcasting.

I absolutely love it.

I think podcasts are a perfect medium for people who might want to peek into the world of therapy a little bit or maybe you've been in counseling and you're just curious about what another therapist might have to say or to think about things from a different perspective. I'm just

glad you're here. I started self-work in order to extend the walls of my practice and

to offer people some ideas about what I've learned from all of my patients over the years

about how to handle the different struggles in their lives, what I like to call what you can do

about it. It's not always simple, it's not always easy, but at least

we can learn from one another. Today we're going to be talking about what I'm calling

long-distance love, which is exactly what it sounds like. When you love

someone dearly, deeply, that is a long way away. How do we handle that? I'm going

to tell you a little bit about my own story with all of that.

Then I've come up with eight techniques or concepts to make it work through the years,

and those will go into in a bit of depth.

And then lastly, we have an email from a listener about what to do or

what could be underneath lying about yourself. I remember as a young girl I was about

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