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 or welcome back to self-work.

I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

I'm a clinical psychologist.

I've lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas for over 25 years

and been in practice here.

And I began podcasting a couple of years ago, gosh, two and a half years ago now, because I wanted

to extend the walls of my practice not only to those of you who might already be in therapy or

be interested in talking about emotional and psychological issues, but also to those who might

have just been diagnosed with something and were seeking information, or maybe you're having

a relationship problem where you're a little lost in what to do. I've done a lot of

couples work as well as individual work and so I in fact I love doing couples work

it's very challenging. But then there's this third group I wanted to reach and

those are folks who might listen to a podcast about therapy or what therapy offers,

but they might never really think about darkening the door of a therapist.

So maybe if they listen to me and realize that, hey, this kind of makes some sense,

that they might just consider reaching out.

I've been really tired of the remaining prejudice there is

against mental illness and mental illness treatment.

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