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.

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

Fayetteville Arkansas I've been in private practice now for 25 years and I started

podcasting last year I really wanted to extend the walls of my practice. I wanted to reach people

who might already be in therapy or knew more about psychology and therapy and mental health issues, but I also wanted to... and or a mental health professional might have to say about either mental illness or just

relationship problems or whatever are the issues of the day.

I believe I'm a conduit in many ways between the people I've seen in therapy over the last 25 years the people who were hurting and

Did the work to heal and those people who are still hurting and maybe at a loss

So that's why self-work is created and I'm so glad you're here.

Today is an exciting day on self-work

because I have my very first podcast interview guest and that is

Miss Sarah Fader. Sarah's here to talk about not only her own diagnoses which have been multiple and that's been confusing

but also to talk about her own work and advocacy in confronting mental illness, prejudice, and stigma.

She's the author of multiple books and is well known in the blogging community

as a great supporter and advocate of anyone who's trying to talk about

mental health and work on their own issues as well as helping other people work on theirs.

She and I have known each other now for probably four years and we had a very interesting

start to our relationship which I'm sure we'll talk about. So we'll get

to that interview very soon. We do not have a listener email today however because I

just wanted the time to be all about Sarah.

Sarah.

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