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 there and welcome to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical

psychologist at a Fayetteville, Arkansas and I decided about two and a half years ago,

almost three, that I wanted to extend the walls of my practice.

Gosh I've been practicing therapy literally practicing therapy for 26 years

but this podcast is about trying to reach people maybe who are already interested

in psychological issues, maybe even already in therapy, but also people who might have just

been diagnosed with depression or anxiety or having some kind of relationship

problem that they can't seem to fix, or that last group of people who might never darken the

door of a therapist or might not think they would, but

would be just curious enough to listen into a podcast.

So welcome to all of you.

Today we're going to be talking about a topic that was actually brought up by a

listener. I'm getting more and more emails from people who are writing me to talk

about certain issues and I love that. That email by the way is Ask Dr Margaret at

Margaret Rutherford.com and it's confidential.

This listener initially wrote in to talk to me about the

possibility of having guests on self-work, and he had some great ideas there.

But now he says, my second reason for writing is to make a topic suggestion.

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