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 Spring. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

I'm a clinical psychologist and I've been working out of Fable, Arkansas

for over 25 years, seeing patients daily.

I love what I do, and so I decided a year and a half or so ago

to reach out and actually extend the walls of my practice to those of you who may

already have psychological interests or be in therapy, but also to those

of you who might never darken the door of a psychologist or a therapist.

I thought maybe you'd be a little curious about what someone like me

would have to say and that it might be helpful to you. So welcome to self-work.

We're going to be talking today about creating a family of friends.

I'm going to mention part of a really stressful time for myself that made me aware of

both the love of my family and my friends and how all of that was so important.

But you know, not all of us have a great family.

Some people are estranged from their family or other families are just disappointing,

especially in stressful times. So I think it's important

to know how to create a family of friends, what has to change in your own thinking, what

emotions do you have to work through, How do you learn to trust, especially if

you've been hurt by your own family? So we'll talk about that today. And then the

email from a listener which which happens every week,

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