163 SelfWork (Second Time Around): Take A Step Toward Self-Compassion
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In today’s SelfWork, sponsored by BetterHelp, we’re going to be talking about how to enrich your emotional life through self-compassion. So many people tell me that they don’t know how to begin to risk feelings that have been suppressed for years. But when you do, you expand the emotions available to you, and enrich your own emotional life. I gave some basics in Episode 102 – so there are other ideas there as well. Today, i offer one simple exercise or visualization for you to try that might open an emotional door for you.
There’s always the caveat when I’m talking about reaching out to deeper feelings.That caveat is that trauma work – risking feeling emotions that are a result of trauma or abuse – often needs to be done with a trauma expert. You can get overwhelmed or even dissociate if by yourself. So please assess the risk carefully.
The listener email is from someone who’s angry that a loved one attempted suicide, although there is also great compassion. She’s confused and afraid she doesn’t have the right to be angry.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Selfwork, and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:14.1 | At Selfwork, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Dr. Margaret, and Selfwork is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today |
| 0:26.2 | for your own Selfwork. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello, and welcome, or welcome back to Selfwork. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford, I'm a clinical psychologist living in Fable Arkansas, living |
| 0:37.9 | and working in Fable Arkansas, and I'm delighted to have any and all of you here. |
| 0:43.6 | During the last week of June 2021, in the first full week of July, my team and I are taking |
| 0:48.5 | a bit of a vacation. |
| 0:50.1 | One of us has a move to make, and I'm actually getting ready in just a few days to teach |
| 0:55.3 | my first course on perfectly-indipression to therapists. |
| 0:59.2 | In fact, if you're a therapist, and if you'd like to sign up for this PowerPact CEU conference, |
| 1:04.5 | that's capital C-E-Y, then O-U-C-E-U with an exclamation point. |
| 1:09.8 | You can get 15% off the whole thing. |
| 1:12.7 | First, in your show notes, there will be a link to the general conference, and then you |
| 1:16.6 | can use the coupon code, presenter ref, capital P-R-E-S-E-N-T-E-R, capital R-E-F, and you'll |
| 1:25.2 | save 15%. |
| 1:27.3 | At least up until the day of the conference, which again, is July the 6th. |
| 1:31.8 | I hope to see you there. |
| 1:34.2 | So many of you write to me telling me the thing you like best about self-work, is that |
| 1:38.3 | in almost every episode I focus on what you can do about it. |
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