140 SelfWork: Why Is Change So Difficult? The Power of Triggers
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Even when you want change in your life, it’s hard to give up what’s familiar and risk the unfamiliar. You at least know you can tolerate what’s happening now and change can be daunting. But you can also be struggling with powerful triggers. I’ll define what a trigger is – how it can be known […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work |
| 0:29.3 | Hello and welcome or welcome back to self-work. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford and I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm a clinical psychologist and I've been in practice for over 25 years in Fable, Arkansas, but I started podcasting three years ago because I wanted to reach |
| 0:47.3 | out to people to help them understand what exactly therapy is and what it can do. Now self-work isn't therapy, but hopefully |
| 0:57.4 | it's therapeutic and it will give you a chance to at least hear how this one psychologist thinks. I want to reach those of |
| 1:06.1 | you who might already be interested in therapy or in therapy. I want to reach the |
| 1:11.5 | group that's searching for answers. Maybe you've been diagnosed |
| 1:14.9 | with depression or anxiety and you're needing answers. And then there's that third group of people |
| 1:21.2 | who might never darken the door of a therapist but are just |
| 1:25.1 | interested enough or curious enough to listen to a podcast. Welcome to all of you. |
| 1:30.8 | Today we're going to be talking about triggers. Triggers can keep you stuck |
| 1:36.6 | because you're unaware what's influencing you to act or feel the way you do. |
| 1:43.0 | Trickers can be known to you or they can be unknown or what's called unconscious. |
| 1:48.3 | There's some confusion about the word unconscious and subconscious. |
| 1:52.0 | Subconscious is more like if you know today is your birth. unconscious and you go, |
| 1:53.0 | subconscious is more like if you know today is your birthday, |
| 1:55.2 | but you sort of forget that it's your birthday until all of a sudden |
| 1:58.4 | you see the date and you go, oh, it's my birthday today. |
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