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 or welcome back to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a

clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've been doing therapy for

over 25 years now and I decided to start podcasting a couple of years ago because I

wanted to extend the walls of my practice to those who of course might already

be interested in therapy and emotional growth that kind of thing

or to those who might have a more recent diagnosis of depression or anxiety bipolar disorder

or an eating disorder or might have run into some problems in

relationships that simply might need a little bit of tweaking and they're a bit lost.

And then of course there's a third group that I'm also trying to reach.

Those of you who may think of seeking therapy as something weak,

something that people who want to complain about their lives always do.

So I'm hoping that maybe a podcast that about

common emotional problems might help you see what it would be like to be in therapy. Now self-work isn't therapy, it's

not the same, but maybe you're just curious enough to know what someone like me might have

to say. Today we're going to be talking about trauma, surviving trauma,

the importance of rediscovering your power. You know, trauma may be a word that you associate more with hospitals or

medical settings more than you do with mental health but emotional and

psychological trauma is the basis for diagnoses such as post-traumatic stress disorder, better known as PTSD, or what's called

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