088 SelfWork: How to Handle the Loneliness of Grief and Loss
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
I’ve never talked to anyone who was dealing with grief and loss that didn’t feel lonely in that grief. Whether it’s a death, an illness, divorce, coping with the drug addiction of a loved one, whether it’s sudden or long-lived loss, you’re walking much of that path by yourself. You may have faith that guides […]
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| 0:13.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues |
| 0:17.0 | common in today's world and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes |
| 0:25.8 | today for your own self-work. |
| 0:30.6 | Hello and thanks so much for tuning in to self-work for this my 88th |
| 0:35.5 | podcast. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville |
| 0:40.4 | Arkansas. I've been in practice over 25 years, I can't believe that really. |
| 0:46.0 | And I started podcasting last year because I wanted to extend the walls of my practice to those |
| 0:52.2 | who might already be very interested in |
| 0:54.0 | psychological issues or even in therapy but also to those who might never have |
| 0:59.1 | darkened the door of a therapist office and really wouldn't consider it, but might be a little curious |
| 1:03.8 | about what someone in my profession might have to say about psychological and |
| 1:08.8 | emotional issues. Today we're going to be talking about the loneliness of grief. I've never known |
| 1:15.4 | anyone who was dealing with grief and loss or trauma that didn't feel very very |
| 1:20.1 | lonely at least at some point in the process. Maybe your siblings |
| 1:24.8 | understand if you've lost your mom or your dad. Maybe your spouse especially |
| 1:29.8 | obviously if it's the tragic loss of a child. Maybe your widowed friends if it's the tragic loss of a child, |
| 1:33.2 | maybe your widowed friends if it's your spouse. |
| 1:36.5 | But there's an aloneness that happens for everyone, |
| 1:39.6 | whether it's sudden loss or more chronic loss, |
| 1:42.0 | like a chronic illness or chronic disease of some kind, like |
| 1:46.6 | a strangement or having a child with a terrible drug addiction, you can feel very alone in trying to deal with that loss. |
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