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 the hundred and twenty-third episode of self-work. I'm Dr.

Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. We've lived

here, gosh about 26, 7 years, something like that.

And I've been in practice since 1993.

I told that to someone the other day who would come to interview me for the newspaper.

She was a young woman and she got this look at her

and I looked at her and I said you weren't born then were you? She said no. Oh goodness

that's so funny. But I started podcasting a couple of years ago because I wanted to reach people, not just in my practice,

I wanted to, but I say extend the walls of my practice to those of you who might already

be interested in psychological and emotional issues, maybe even be in therapy, but also to those

who have been recently diagnosed with some kind of mental illness and want more

information or want a psychologist's perspective.

And then of course I'm also interested in reaching any of you who might not have even considered ever talking to a therapist,

but who would be interested enough to listen to a podcast.

We have enough prejudice and stigma to go around for a lifetime against mental illness.

And I want to do my part to help people understand that there's nothing weak or fragile about asking for help. I'm a therapist

because I got good therapy and one of the things that pleases me the very most is

when I get either an email or a written review saying I went to

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