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. I began podcasting last year because I wanted to extend the

walls of my practice, as I like to say, not only reaching out to people who

might already be in therapy or be interested in psychology, but might never darken the door

of a therapist, but are just curious enough to know what

someone like me might have to say about things. So that's self-work. We're actually

going to be talking about four very common hurdles in couples counseling, things that I think people

really have odd ideas about or just plain misunderstandings about the therapeutic process.

So I thought it would be helpful to talk about it.

There are also hurdles for individual counseling, at least a couple of them are, but I think

it helps to talk about it in a couple's context.

I want to say that today's podcast is sponsored by audible.com

and I'll have an offer from them

and from me coming in a few minutes.

But first, I want to thank those of you

who took time this week to give me a rating, a review on iTunes.

I looked, and I was so dismayed

because somebody gave me a one star, I thought which means I hate it I

thought okay well getting my first negative feedback and actually the review was

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