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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 or welcome back to self-work.

I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford and I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas.

I've been podcasting now over a year and I've always wanted to extend the walls of my practice so that I

could reach people who might already be in therapy and be interested in the

opinions or the ideas of another psychologist but who might never darken the door of a therapist's

office, but still are a little curious or need help.

So today's episode is about a very simple way to improve your marriage or your relationship.

I did a series last year on my website about this and the first one was apologies the second

was thank yous and I had a little trouble thinking about what the third one would be

but what kept coming up in my mind was touch. I hear a lot about touching or not touching in my work as a relationship therapist.

Now we're not talking about sex necessarily, we're talking

about touch. Actually this particular podcast was probably spurred on by a

discussion I had with two of my patients here in marital therapy about the difference between love

and desire. But we're going to talk today about touch. I also have something exciting, it's a new thing for self-work. If you've gone to my

website you'll notice there's no advertising on it and at this point I've

had some people approach me to do things on the podcast that I've also turned down.

I want my listeners to trust that this is about them.

But Audible.com contacted me recently and after some consideration I really thought that this was a

wonderful idea and opportunity for listeners to self-work. So today's podcast is

sponsored by audible.com and I'll share more the details with you.

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