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 cannot believe this is the 130th

episode I'm so thrilled you're here with me today I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford

I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've been in practice there for about 26 years.

I've been podcasting 2.5 years because I wanted to extend the walls of my practice.

I grew quite tired of the misconceptions about therapy

and I wanted to reach out to those of you who might already be in therapy

or be quite comfortable talking about psychological issues.

To those of you who might recently have been diagnosed with anxiety or depression or

having a relationship problem that seems to be a bit forbidding, and to those who might

never darken the door of a psychologist's office but are just curious enough or are struggling

enough to open yourself to listening to a

podcast. So welcome. Today we're going to be talking about failure. No one

particularly likes to fail but but it's inevitable.

And too many people shame themselves for failure and then either quit something that's hard or

define themselves as a failure, or even tragically go to immense lengths to hide that

failure from the world. I'll talk a little bit about the failures in my own life.

We'll talk about the difference between humility and

defining yourself by failure. And then we'll slip in a metaphor about kite flying.

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