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 I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford and I'm so glad you're here for the 113th episode of self-work. That really seems

unbelievable to me. I'm a clinical psychologist. I've been practicing in Fayetteville

Arkansas for over 25 years, 26 to be exact,

and started podcasting a couple of years ago in order to reach out to those who might

already be interested in therapy or have been diagnosed

with a mental illness and be working with a therapist, but also to those who might

have just been diagnosed with

anxiety or depression or an eating disorder or bipolar disorder or whatever

or it's just people with relationship problems that are looking for help

but there's a third group that really interests me a lot and those are the people who

might say they would never darken the door of a therapist. I wanted to extend the

walls of my practice to them so that you would know what a therapist sounds like, what might a therapist say,

what might a therapist have to offer.

So I'm glad you're here whatever group you happen to belong to.

Today's focus was actually a suggestion from a listener, so I'm so delighted to be talking

about imposter syndrome today. The fear that you aren't what you appear to be, that you haven't

truly earned your place, that any day now someone is going to discover that you're a phony

or a fraud.

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