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. Hello and

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

and about a year ago I started podcasting because I decided I wanted to extend

the walls of my practice to reach people who might never

have considered coming into therapy or were interested in perhaps hearing another therapist's

perspective. We talk about all kinds of things here and today we're

talking about apologizing. Do you struggle to apologize? Do you feel like

somehow you're taking an inferior position if you do so?

How often to the words, I'm sorry, come out of your mouth?

We're going to talk about good kinds of apologies, ones that make a big difference and crummy kinds

of apologies.

We'll review some research on the idea that there are gender differences and apologies, differences between the way men

and women apologize will touch on what you learned in your family about

apologizing and how that's important. And then three

reasons why I believe it's really vital in your relationship to be pretty

comfortable with saying I'm sorry. Then as we always do every

episode I've got an email from a listener and by the way I love it love it when I

get emails from y'all. It really helps me tune in to who my audience is,

what you like to hear, what your problems are,

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