170 SelfWork: Resilience, Vulnerability, and Finding Purpose
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re talking about the relationship between resilience and vulnerability and how those two things are an integral part of living a purposeful life. I’ll use some quotes from one of my favorite books – one of those books you read that makes an indelible impression on you. And we’ll touch on what actually creates resilience, which is the ability to bounce back, to remain purposeful even if you get disappointed or you fail at something.
And I ask these questions: Does being resilient mean you can't allow vulnerability? Or if you reveal vulnerability, does that reflect a lack of resilience? Here's my best answer.
Our listener email is from someone who has fallen in love with a man whose son died within the last year. She wants some advice on how to be supportive in this very new but already special relationship.
Important Links:
Article on Dr. Victor Frankl and “logotherapy.”
Psychology Today article by Maureen Healy on developing resilience
You can hear more about this and many other topics by listening to my podcast, SelfWork with Dr. Margaret Rutherford. Subscribe to my website and receive one weekly newsletter including my weekly blog post and podcast! If you’d like to join my FaceBook closed group, then click here and answer the membership questions! Welcome!
My new book entitled Perfectly Hidden Depression has arrived and you can order here! Its message is specifically for those with a struggle with strong perfectionism which acts to mask underlying emotional pain. But the many self-help techniques described can be used by everyone who chooses to begin to address emotions long hidden away that are clouding and sabotaging your current life.
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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. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome or welcome back to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret and I'm a clinical |
| 0:34.9 | psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've been podcasting for a little over |
| 0:39.0 | three years because I wanted to reach out and talk about what therapy is really like and maybe let you know what a therapist sounds like. |
| 0:47.0 | Some of you may be very well versed in psychological or emotional issues. |
| 0:51.0 | Some of you may just have been diagnosed with depression or |
| 0:54.7 | anxiety and want some information and there may be some of you who don't feel like |
| 0:58.4 | you darken the door of a therapist but you are curious. So welcome to all of you. I want to thank you if you've left |
| 1:05.6 | review on Amazon or iTunes, either for my book, Perfectly Hidden Depression, or |
| 1:11.0 | for this podcast. Thank you so very much. I'm very grateful. In fact, before we |
| 1:17.0 | get started, I would love to give you a challenge. I'd love for all of you to tell |
| 1:21.6 | one person about self-work and then let's see what happens. |
| 1:26.1 | I'll fill you in. |
| 1:28.1 | Today we're going to be talking about the relationship between resilience and vulnerability and how those two things are an |
| 1:34.4 | integral part of living a purposeful life. I'm going to quote one of my favorite |
| 1:39.2 | books, you know one of those books you read that makes an indelible impression on you? |
| 1:43.6 | And then we'll touch on what actually creates resilience, that being the ability to bounce |
| 1:48.6 | back and to remain purposeful even if you get disappointed or you fail at something. |
| 1:54.2 | Our listener email today is from someone who's fallen in love with a man whose son died within the |
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