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

welcome to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford and I'm a clinical psychologist out of

Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've been doing therapy now for almost 25 years and I

decided last year that I wanted to extend the walls of my practice so that I could reach more people.

Maybe even people who didn't know a psychologist had never been to therapy might not even consider going into therapy.

Perhaps you'd be interested in how a therapist talks and thinks about certain kinds of issues in our world.

So if you are, I hope that you stay tuned in because we're

talking about something really important and something that's going on in our world

right now. We're going to be talking about the allegations against

Harvey Weinstein. What has been your reaction to what's been going on? If you've been

sexually objectified or abused in your own lifetime, I am sure you have your own story.

In fact, today I'm going to tell you one of my own, and my own reaction to this kind of behavior.

Then we'll move a little more into thinking

about responses to danger. There are actually four. We always talk about fight or flight,

but there are two more and all of these are based

on how you assess the situation and your history but we'll talk more about that.

We'll also talk about shaming yourself for not doing something different if you have been

sexually harassed, objectified, or even abused. So many people have a lot of shame.

I should have done that, I should have done this.

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